![]() ![]() I know that you say you primarily write sad songs. We made up a cool, catchy name for it, so it wouldn't force us to have to sound like anything other than what we want to do. I don't really like being in a box, especially as a Black artist – it's the main thing you have to fight against. We called ourselves because I didn’t want to do anything that could’ve pigeonhole us too much. I feel like is more of a combination of my experiences from writing a lot and listening to a variety of music growing up, but also my experiences in the punk and hardcore scene in Memphis. In the early days, I was making a lot of weird, abstract lo-fi stuff in my dorm room. How would you describe where that sound comes from? I've seen you describe your sound as “sad boy indie rock.” But there seems to be a lot of genre blending. I'll try to remind myself, or bring back the same feelings of when I was like 5, 6, and 7, listening to my parent’s music in our small house on Rhodes Avenue. There's a kind of nostalgia in how I write. I don't really go into writing with any specific genre idea in mind. I just looked at it as good music or bad music, as opposed to categorizing it. I didn't really look at music from a genre standpoint. I feel like my sporadicness and scatterbrained writing style is directly pulled from that. They got me to listen to a pretty eclectic mix of all genres from all decades – everything from Marvin Gaye to the Talking Heads.ĭo you hear any of that in the lineage of the music that you make?ĭefinitely. Let’s add a piano to the mix.” Neither of my parents played any, but they would always play music. Then my parents realized, “Oh, he’s this weird homeschool kid. ![]() The reason I took piano lessons was because I wanted to teach myself Beethoven songs. I don't really come from a musical household – artistic, but not musical. ![]() Was music something that was pushed in your household? You have songs like “ Rhodes Avenue,” where you touch on your childhood. That summer I picked up a guitar and started writing songs. At the end of my sophomore year, I had a close friend get killed, I lost my grandma, and then I went through a breakup – just back to back to back. I started taking classical piano lessons at 12, but started pursuing music in the capacity that I do now around 20. How long have you been involved in music? ![]()
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