Unwound

Of all the people you worked with [laughs] yeah, Anders.

Also, his, uh, sister was in this amazing, side note, was in, was in this amazing band from Olympia called Unwound.

Sara Lund, an amazing drummer, for all the nerds out there know who I'm talking about.

[laughs]

...

I actually like ha- I just, um, actually just transferred the first XBXRX tape, which was like, um, Alicia Paraman on synths, Steve on guitar, and then me on drums, and that was like the first thing that we kind of were like, "Oh, this is like the band." And that was like pretty much right after we saw, um, me and Alicia saw Two Nights in a Row, and Steve saw for one of the shows, uh, the first touring band show I ever saw that was at a VFW hall in Biloxi that was Deerhoof, Unwound, and The Peaches.

And, um-

Whoa, that's awesome

And, um, and so that was like for me like, all of us I think like pretty life-changing.

And like, and then, uh, and then we met like Jack White in San Francisco on that tour.

We saw The White Stripes, and we met Lightning Bolt, and we, um, we played with like The Lies, and then Sadie Shaw like loved it, and then Sadie Shaw was like, "Oh, you're gonna be in Olympia in four days." She called up Slim Moon, and then Slim Moon brought like Unwound and all these people to the Olympia show.

And so it was like out the gate it was like a dream for us because it was all these like artists that we were like, and bands that we were like obsessed with.

Mm.

They came out of, like, the Gravity Records, Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Unwound obviously m- maybe most famously.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

Fucking love Unwound.

Mm-hmm.

So they were kind of, like, in that world.

it out.

Similarly, Unwound,

Challenge for a Civilized Society, I feel like has that West Coast sensibility that is a little different.

Closer to Home, closer to their scene, I think, as far as contemporaries, Frodus' conglomerate, International,

But for the first time this week, I was like, I don't want to like this.

Can I just go back to listening to Unwound and Boris? You know, like...

Please let me put on Corpse Pose.

Please let me put on Heavy Friends.

And he said, musically, the making of this song was very collaborative.

I was really inspired by what bands like Modest Mouse and Unwound were doing at the time.

They would record these really collaborative albums that just came out of jam sessions they had.

So Scott, Brett and I decided to lock ourselves in the rehearsal space and just record for hours.

And it's part of the reason why like I really wanted to do Split Silk because like I really wanted to make music that was like loud and noisy, but was cathartic.

Because like I loved like Unwound and like Shotmaker.

wow i can't believe you just said shot maker it's one of my favorite bands of all time

me too

And it's just like my favorite band and the guitar tone.

And I don't know, it just kind of meant a lot to me because I was like thinking that's what inspired us was all those bands like Unwound, Polvo, like all those guitar driven bands.

Yeah.

So yeah, I don't know.

I feel like the only detrimental we might have as a band, but maybe not, is that we don't quite fit into one category sometimes.

Yeah, that's what I was saying.

I think that instead of, for me and my music and using references, I hope it doesn't offend other people when I use references like Unwound or something.

It's just a vehicle to talk about something.