With 'Endure,' Special Interest experiments with sound and speaks to today's uneasy balance of disaster and joy
generously mixed punk, techno, and industrial into a blend you could both dance and thrash to, and the result was a critical breakthrough. The LP — which elevated the band’s profile and led to a record deal with Rough Trade — combined scenes of crumbling cities and gentrification with stories of going out at night and being in love. “The lyrics are a reflection of what we see in the world,” vocalist Alli Logout tells MTV News.
Not that Special Interest is suddenly a dream-pop band — there’s still brittle percussion or a sneering vocal performance for every reverbed, clean guitar riff. On “Love Scene,” drum machines thwack away, Logout sings cooly about a difficult yet irresistible relationship that happens behind closed doors — the kind of thing nearly everyone goes through at some point — and bass guitars and synths evoke a twinkling but foreboding night sky.
“I don't wanna deny the power of music to move people,” Logout adds. “It is really an incredible tool to reach people.”is a great example: Its vivid, stylistically diverse soundscapes and descriptions of regular life in constant crisis speak powerfully to the modern era’s uneasy balance of disaster and joy. All four band members discuss the album below; this conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.press bio says you wanted to make fun music to contrast sad times.
MTV News: Your music has always toed a line between punk and dance. How much did that come up as you were being spontaneous in your practice space?I don't think it's super conscious with us. There were certain [moments when we said], “Oh, it'd be fun to have something like a little drum and bass here, a little this or a little that.” But we don't make distinctions between the genres we're messing with. We just see what feels impactful when we're playing and follow that.
songs are some of your prettiest yet, but there are some grittier ones too. I'm curious how you decide to go pretty versus bombastic.: When we're writing, it's a very intuitive process. We don't talk it out ahead of time. It's literally us getting together, playing, and seeing what comes out and what works.: The songs tell us what to do. They really do.
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