Tell Us about:

Your latest single you have released:

Coyne: Our new single, VOICEMAIL, is a song about the age-old rejection of getting the beep. And kinda dwelling on it. 

Dalrymple: It could be about making a phone call, and to your amazement, they’ve set up their voicemail (rare these days). Maybe it’s about the consistent pain of unreciprocated love in life, and all of its fleeting reminders – yet you still want to hear it again. Maybe, just maybe, they will love me back if I call once more – but they never pick up that call, do they?

Your favourite lyric in this song:

“Every time I call you I just get your VOICEMAIL.” I don’t think there are many others!

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

The Ringer Soundtrack: We’re still a big believer in “She Don’t Love You” — it’s one of the centerpiece tracks of our upcoming full-length. It’s a piano ballad. The single has been out for about a year, but we are taking our time with finishing that record. We are working with Joel Edinberg at Q Division in Cambridge, Mass., on it.

The song that was the longest to write and why?

In my opinion, when the song takes a really long time to write it’s maybe telling you it ain’t the one. Sort of like that girlfriend that sometimes texts back and sometimes leaves you on read. When the song is leaving you on read and nothing else is coming down from the heavens, it’s either telling you you haven’t lived/experienced enough, or you haven’t picked up the right powerups, like a video game, to proceed forward. Sometimes your band mate or co-writer has the powerup you need. 

I am reminded of this great moment in The Beatles’ Get Back where George has got the makings of Something. “Something in the way she moves, attracts me like a cauliflower.”

John keeps repeating this line to him over and over as George is stuck. George says he had been stuck for weeks on how that phrase should end. John had the syllables, just not the exact word. Eventually they trade “cauliflower” for “no other lover” and a hit song is born. Some would even say it’s the thesis of Abbey Road. Sometimes when I am all the way cooked on a song but something’s not quite right, Brando has the other half of whatever part is missing or yet to ripen. 

That’s pretty much what happened here — we had all the melodies locked in, but every iteration of the song we demoed didn’t contain the magic we captured the night we wrote it. We tried lots of styles, instrument configurations, instruments, drums, basslines etc. in the subsequent weeks and months. We spent a lot of time trying to get back to The Island… but then we actually did. Not an easy feat. 

One of your previous tracks you would recommend for first time listeners of your music and why?

“Busy.” It sits in the middle of our very first record, Wake Up World, and divides the thing in half like the prime meridian. It also has a very sincere “escape” narrative that is relatable as the song moves from acoustic solo vocal production, to a 60-plus track explosion of layers and textures, and then back to an acoustic solo vocal production by the end. It kinda gives the track a “reverie” or “daydream” vibe, with the narrator coming back to Earth at the end, giving up on or coming back down from all these big dreams.

Dream collaboration:

ClThis may be an odd one for some but I would like to get a song to Fastball. If they’re not into it I would settle for John Lennon. 

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

The Ringer Soundtrack: Straight nerves/circling the drain in the green room; flow-state once that first note rings out. 

The track that is most fun to play live:

“In Your Corner.” Definitely “Busy.”

Essential items you always take on tour with you?

Someone’s gotta have the “Band Dad Bag” – what’s in it? 9V batteries, Sharpies, white paper, coin/flat batteries, capos, cables, clippers, strings, picks. USB sticks, adapters, converters, dongles. Duct tape! Like The Movielife says, “Duct Tape Fixes Everything” and they’ve always been correct.

Describe your fans in three words:

The Ringer Soundtrack: “Literally our family.”

A song released in the last few years by an artist or band you wish you had written:

I tend to go for the classic sounding, movie soundtrack, cinematic stuff that just rocks with a vocal and a single instrument. That said, I’m going with “Iris.” I know it’s not 1997, and I know it’s a real fad right now but that’s the song I wish I had written, and it always has been. All the best soundtrack songs have cinematic strings. 

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

A level of confidence we had to literally die and resurrect ourselves to achieve. Parameters in the music industry in 2026 are so weird and we have decided to stop chasing the damn thing like a puppy and just put out great stuff we are proud of and believe in. Art will win the day in the land of the lies. 

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