Olive Vox | From SXSW to When the Dream Got Real

Well, let's talk about the EP Trace It Back.

It's coming out September 18th.

And, you know, everything you read about or hear about you guys in other interviews, it's a pretty personal place talking about mistakes, regrets, guilt, different things like that.

Not easily to put into words, especially into a song.

But was there anything that all of you maybe learned about yourself that you maybe wouldn't have brought out if you hadn't written about it or at least put them together in a song collectively?

That's a really good question.

From the instrumental side of things, Parker's the lyric writer.

So we're only speaking emotionally through what we can produce in our sounds.

For me, in a technical standpoint, I learned to write separate parts as if I was our players because we only have one.

So I was writing a lot more higher leads and intricate parts just to kind of give support to the rhythm side of things.

So I think that's what I'm looking for experience and carrying that forward into future endeavors, future music.

Yeah.

Anybody want to add to that? Ben, you go.

I was just going to say, kind of in a similar vein of Caden, like, I think recording this record, like, definitely learned to the fullest capacity that, like, our, like, limitations are also, like, our sort of, like, special character in DNA.

Even just speaking for me, like, writing what we were able to write for this record, like, really illuminated to me that, like, What we do is that is the value, that is the authenticity.

We finally reached a space like as writing partners to like fully all speak our own individual instrumental like sort of voices.

And I think it's really cool.

I think that's why the record sounds the way it does, you know.

And you said the key word, man, that I know I've covered in a lot of interviews, no matter if it's a younger band or a band that's been together for 30 years, like Toadies, who we had Vaden on a few weeks ago.

The thing that everyone seems to be talking about right now is, you know, AI, obviously.

But people also are looking for honesty and authenticity, which I think, you know, from what it sounds like you mentioned, Weren't really hiding behind the lyrics, but maybe it makes it a little bit easier to, you know, put them out there now because people are looking for that honesty.

So, you know, once you kind of opened that door, was there still something you felt like you were holding back on that you just didn't feel like it was time to write about or did you let it all go?

Um, no, I definitely was just like, I honestly didn't put too much thought into it.

I was just like, I'm gonna write about this.

And I'm gonna put it out and not worry about it.