Episode 140: Lucca Cassandra Carver of Split Silk on autism and playing loud music

My name is Lucca Cassandra Carver, and I'm the principal guitarist and vocalist behind the band Split Silk from Atlanta, Georgia.

And I am autistic.

It's something I've struggled with my whole life.

It took a while to kind of get to the point where I realized that's what was going on.

And I also struggle with PTSD as well, just from being autistic in a world that isn't designed for autistic people.

I didn't like music at first.

It wasn't until I was 10 and I heard like Boston and like old classic rock and like the police and stuff.

And then I got into indie rock and then a friend of mine in high school heard me listening to the Strokes and was like, okay, you think that's good, but here's something else.

And I got Fugazi Repeater, Captain Jazz and Alphabeta Polythology and Drea Lejihu self-titled All in One Day.

and my life was changed forever, and I had to make music.

That would change someone's life.

Those are three amazing albums.

I'm pretty sure that there's quite a big age gap, but those are three of the really formative albums for me as well.

Yeah, that's a cool thing about music, I think, is certain albums find people at certain times in their life, and they still ring true.

Whenever I see a kid getting into Nirvana, Or like, okay, I'd like getting into the Smiths.

I'm just like, oh, I know where you are emotionally right now.

And I see you.

Yeah.

It sounds like you've come through a lot of hard times in your youth.

And I'm wondering what it was about that music that really appealed to you.

Did it click a certain way?

To me, music was something that was being made like in a vacuum somewhere.

It didn't feel like something that actual people made.

I would see people play music like at church.

It didn't feel like rock and roll.