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Check out some of the interview below:
Earlier this
year, you released your second album, Love Death Immortality – what went into
the making of it?
Justin: It was about
a two-year process where we had been touring our previous album and decided to
stop and take everything we learned on the road and put it back into our new record.
The focus for us is always on the emotion and the story and feeling of a song.
This time, we put it into a package that was ready to be performed live and
toured. It sounded like music that was engineered for the live stage and had
the energy of the drama of a big live show we wanted to put on.
Has your
sound changed at all since the first one?
Ed: For the first record, we really had no idea what it would sound like performed
live. We went off on our own and did our own thing and wrote a very creative
record that was probably best experienced on a home sound system or in a
car. It was a very personal record. It was challenging to figure out how to perform Drink The Sea on the festival circuit and I think at the end of that tour cycle we finally got it. I think going into writing Love Death Immortality, we were thinking how to best keep all the amazing storytelling aspects of Drink The
Sea but bring it back to our roots of having the tunes really work well in massive festival environments. We wanted to be able to translate that energy and "epicness." That was the biggest difference between the first album and this album.
It’s great
to see how you guys do so much on your own and are very independent when it
comes to the way you do everything — was that the plan all along?
Josh: It just sort
of happened. Over the years of writing music and playing shows, we learned how
to do it all on our own. We used to book all our shows, we managed ourselves,
we did everything. We’re still one hundred per cent independent and we own our
own record label.
Ed: And it’s
something that we take pride in. We love doing it on our own. We don’t have
ghost writers and we won’t have anyone helping us out. We write all our own
music, we build our live sets, we're very hands-on and we do our social media. We’re so particular,
that when you want something done right, you have to do it yourself to get the
best results.
Josh: We love that
part of it.
You
mentioned social media. What's the importance of building this
relationship with fans online?
Justin: We have a
really close connection with our fans that’s been going on since day one. We
used to get up on the mic at the end of the show in 2006 and say: shout
out our MySpace page. It’s always
been that way. We would print out stacks of CDs and hand them out. Social media
is just another way to connect with people. We consider the whole experience as
a collective experience. A Glitch Mob show for us is like a big ship that
everyone is in together and we make music and play it, but we’re really just
there to facilitate experiences for other people. It’s really important for us to
do everything. Everything you see that comes out, from the merchandise to the
way the stage looks to the way tweets are worded, comes from our voice. All of
this stuff is part of who we are creatively.
Ed: Glitch Mob
is a fan experience project. Although the three of us are the literal Glitch
Mob, the ones writing the music, the ones performing the music, we look at the
collective hundreds of thousands of people out there around the world as the
all-inclusive Glitch Mob. We’re channeling the collective story we’re all
telling together.
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| Justin, Ed, Josh |
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- Christina
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