Australian alt rockers, FLYYING COLOURS, are set to release their newest EP. I grabbed a few questions from the band before they set off on their world tour about influences, the debut album and wether shoegaze is coming back into the musical scene.
What are your musical influences?
Aside from our obvious influences we all listen to anything and everything. When it comes to writing, creating guitar sounds, the way the records are mixed etc shoegaze is what I love most, which is probably why that is what comes out.
How would you sum up the new EP in 3 words?
coming, out, soon
and then everyone can work that out for us.
Why should people buy your new EP?
If people like it they should buy it if they want to. I particularly like the cover. It goes nicely with the first one also so if you own that one then you should probably get the new one.
Any big events happening this year?
At the moment we are looking forward to the new EP and our first tour of the UK/Europe in May, during which we are playing The Great Escape.
What is your opinions on the current music charts (is shoegaze slowly becoming more popular again)
I can’t really comment on the music charts as I know literally nothing about them, not to say I don't like pop music though. Im glad shoegaze is becoming more popular if thats what is happening. I think its one of those things, when a style or something reaches a certain age it can reflected upon differently i.e something becomes retro/vintage cool etc. And its about that time when bands would play reunion shows and that kind of thing isn’t it? All that said from what I know and listen to there have been incredible bands making shoegaze music with dedicated fan bases since the original scene, so the music has always been around, and people have always been listening to it. I also think that at whatever point MBV released the follow-up to Loveless in the infamous 22 years that it took them to do so, the term shoegaze and all things associated would garner more attention. Either way it can only be a good thing, because the music is bloody awesome.
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