We’ve been playing together since 2008—17 years now. Occasionally we stop and ask ourselves: Why are we still doing this? How come we’re still excited to step into the rehearsal room after all these years?
The answer is probably pretty simple: because it never stopped being fun. And we never stopped growing. Our band is truly collective: no one brings in finished ideas from home, and we rarely arrive at rehearsal knowing exactly what we’ll play. Instead, we jam for hours, bounce ideas around, record snippets—and, sure, we create tons of sketches that end up sounding awful. But that’s part of the deal.
It’s not a quick process. Honestly, it can sometimes feel incredibly slow and even frustrating. But that’s because we keep everything open, collaborative, and free. Songs rarely feel finished when we’re rehearsing; often, we only really figure them out when we play them live or hit the record button in the studio.
There’s always this moment on stage—when suddenly the song clicks and we think: “Ahhh, that’s what it’s supposed to sound like!” Other times, something magical happens in rehearsal, and we record it, but when we try to recreate it later, that special vibe is gone. Music is tricky like that: sometimes it sounds amazing in the moment and then mysteriously disappears the next!
