Tell Us about:

Your latest single you have released:

Three Against Me

Your favourite lyric in this song: 

When the poison slowly bled

Your favourite song that you have created that is an album track:

Greg: ‘Up to Speed’ from Now and the Future

Bryan: ‘Motor One’ off the record Pop Culture Failure. I wrote those lyrics while on tour in New Zealand.

Scott: ‘Second Best’ on Pop Culture Failure.

Your favourite song to play live:

Bryan: ‘Supposed To” off the record Pop Culture Failure. It’s a fun song to play on drums as there’s multiple parts and tempos.

Scott: Right now, I’m loving ‘Just Around the Corner’ off our new album.

Greg: ‘Refined.’ I didn’t write it, but the bass is super fun and the harmonies are very cool.

The song that was the longest to write and why?

Scott: ‘Catch Twenty-Two’ off of Local State Inertia took a long time to put together, and our bandmate at the time Jeff Dean helped with an awesome riff on tour in Brazil. And then we accidentally left him off the credits. All apologies!!

Greg: ‘Static Generate’ on the new record. I have a practice space recording of that song—then called ‘3 Against Me’— from 2018. Oh, I take that back. ‘Never Started’ was resurrected from a demo we did in 2013.

Bryan: ‘Catch Twenty Two’ off the record ‘Local State Inertia” as it never came together in rehearsals but was a song we ended up sorting out in the studio during the recording process.

Your most emotional track:

Scott: What a hard question! I have to say, again, ‘Second Best.’ It’s about overcoming obstacles and finding balance.

Greg: I love ‘Texas One Ten’ but I am going to go with ‘Synethesia’ off Local State Inertia. It has an emotional vibe and works so well as a closer. I think it could have gone longer and just faded out. 

Bryan: ‘Texas One Ten’. It’s the name of the highway in East Texas where my mother grew up and is buried.

Dream collaboration:

Scott: Having written songs with incredible musicians–the guys in the band currently–and past members like Chris Bauermeister from Jawbreaker and Karl Eifrig from the Mons/Lynyrd’s Innards, I would love to record with a musician known from a different genre like Rachel Goswell from Slowdive. I love her voice and her energy on stage.

Bryan: Anything that involves a cellist. I’ve always wanted to have a song that featured the cello, perhaps one day… 

Describe the feeling you get when you walk on stage to do a show:

Bryan: I get a feeling of excitement and relief, it’s almost like going into a trance-like state as I just go into autopilot and rock it out.

Scott: Becoming a different person and focusing in on one thing–the music and the performance. Putting everything you have into that one moment.

Greg: Nervousness, but that changes into excitement once we start to play. 

The hardest track to play live:

Scott: ‘Carnival Nostalgia’ from Copper Regret. One of my favorite tracks, but it has an intricate guitar line and a lot of harmonies that can be hard to reproduce live. 

Bryan: Anything fast towards the end of the set and for some reason we tend to do that… Also, lately it’s been ‘Fear of Heights’.

Greg: ‘Nothing At All’ from Pop Culture Failure. Another one I didn’t write. Even though it is slower, there is a lot happening with the bass and vocal harmonies. We play it, but I simplify it when playing live.

Essential items you always take on tour with you?

Greg: It used to be a pen and journal but not anymore. 

Bryan: Socks and Advil PM

Scott: A good attitude.

Describe your fans in three words:

Bryan: Dedicated, Older, Discerning

Greg: Appreciative that we are still creating new music, and touring. 

Scott: Awesome, punk, nonconformist

A song by another artist or band you wish you had written:

Greg: ‘Another Day’ by Sludgeworth

Scott: ‘Chartered Trips’ by Hüsker Dü

Bryan: ‘For Want Of’ by Rights of Spring

What we can look forward to from your band this year: 

Scott: A new split 7” and a lot more shows around the world!

Bryan: Touring North America and Europe, plus releasing some new music!

Greg: To be more active. I don’t want to hear, ‘Horace Pinker? Are they still a band?’ even once.

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