We're a pretty new band so we're still working ourselves out I think. Adam and I have been talking about this question recently. We're at a bit of a tipping point in some ways, because we've now got quite a lot of songs (more to be added here soon) and they seem to fall into two distinct 'categories' in terms of sound...
Fundamentally, as a band we're built to serve the songs. It's me and Adam (Kent) writing them, so I think there's a quality to the lyrics and music that's built on songwriting and storytelling as a first love. There's also a life force in the songs that's driven by the need to translate an inner geography - so they're still pretty personal songs in some ways, but because there are six other people in the band who are all helping to translate and transcend that personal experience - there's a new alchemy involved, and inevitably a new sound, compared to my solo stuff, for example.
Whatever we end up with, I think there's always an initial commitment to an aesthetic beauty - even if that beauty is a bit mutated or unconventional.
I think that's at the heart of it, but ask me in a month cos we might have moved on by then - who knows?
