Wells: “We’ve been releasing Cricketbows singles but we kind of splintered away to do all these other things. We did New Wave Vendetta with Dan Canzonieri. We did a ghost hunting show for a minute.”
Watson: “The show was good. The pandemic ended that, nothing else. When we came back to doing Cricketbows stuff, we were in a completely different headspace.”
Wells: “We could do whatever we wanted to do so why not? I like to come up with ideas, organize things and see it through it’s done. It’s fun for me to have that because bands become open ended. There’s a lot of waiting and I just want to have an idea, figure out the steps to achieve it and then go for it. The pandemic allowed us to tweak that process.”
Watson: “I love Cricketbows. We’re just setting her to sleep for a little bit, but this is fantastic. It’s allowed us to explore these other creative outlets. It’s neat not to be stuck being pigeonholed into one specific genre. If you have it in you, let it out and explore that for a while. It’s been fun to play with all the influences we’ve had and explore them a little bit.”
PJ: “I’ve always wanted to do music myself, so this is really exciting. When I was little, I was on recordings my dad did, so I’m used to it. I’m always there in the background, even if I’m not playing, but it’s cool to listen to a song and go, ‘I did that! I played bass on that.’ It’s exciting to join the thing I’ve been watching forever.”
Wells: “The label we signed to in England is (comprised of) guys that did a horror punk radio show over there. They found my old band the Jackalopes and were like, ‘What is this?’ We started corresponding and they showed me all this new stuff. I felt like we still had something to add to that.”
More info: www.wearehorrorrecords.bandcamp.com.
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