1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk, I Buzznight and today on Taking a Walk, 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: we're joined by day Glow, the indie pop sensation whose 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: infectious melodies and thoughtful lyrics have captured the spirit of 4 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: a new generation. As we talk, day Glow, also known 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: as Sloane Struble, opens up about the creative journey that's 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: taken him from recording in his Texas bedroom to playing 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: stages around the world. Will dive into his inspirations, the 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: stories behind his songs, and the moments of reflection that 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: shape his music. So join us in a couple of 10 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: minutes here after a few words from our sponsors, with 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: one of today's most exciting young artists, Day Glow. All right, 12 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: Day Glow, Sloane Strubel, thanks for being on the Taking 13 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: a Walk podcast. 14 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: Heck yeah, thanks for having me. 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. So, since we call the podcast Taken a Walk, 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: and since we're not taking a walk, you and I 17 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: in person, if you had the opportunity to take a 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: walk with somebody in the world of music, living or deceased, 19 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: what would you take a walk with? And maybe tell 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: us where you'd like to take that walk? 21 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 3: Oh man, I mean that is I mean, that's like 22 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 3: an infinite question. I feel like there's so many ways 23 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 3: you could answer that. I mean, the first thing comes 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 3: to mind is like Paul McCartney. That'd be cool to 25 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 3: go on a walk with Paul McCartney, just ask him, 26 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 3: like how the heck did all of that happen? 27 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: You know, like how did this? 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: You know? 29 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 3: I would just love to hear his perspective of like 30 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: how his life began. And then where I would do it. 31 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: I mean freaking anywhere. 33 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 3: If I get to walk with Paul McCartney, all all 34 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 3: walk anywhere. 35 00:01:54,760 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, right, Yeah, you know. I interviewed a 36 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: musician recently by the name of Charles Kelly from the 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: band Lady A, and Paul McCartney was his choice as well. 38 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: So nice. The answers spanned so many different places. That's 39 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: why I love the opening question. But thank you for that. 40 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: So tell me what your earliest memory of music is 41 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: and one that made you feel something really special and 42 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: knew you were going to be connected with a life 43 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: of music. 44 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: I mean, both of my parents like they were singers, 45 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,959 Speaker 3: where they were like singing church and like I guess 46 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 3: like that's where my musical talent comes from. But we 47 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 3: weren't like a musical house, Like I wouldn't really say 48 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 3: like instruments were sitting around the house, and it was 49 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 3: like a thing that was encouraged, especially as a career 50 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 3: at first. But I just yeah, I mean I have 51 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 3: so many things very early development of like pots and 52 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 3: pans on the kitchen floor and all that. 53 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: Type of stuff. 54 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 3: But I think the first time where I just knew 55 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 3: it was like my career was when I was like 56 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 3: ten years old. My cousin showed me garage band. We 57 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 3: were having a garage sale like my family was, and 58 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 3: they came over and he like showed me how to 59 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 3: use garage band, and I was just obsessed with that 60 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 3: whole ecosystem of like iMovie and garage band, all the 61 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 3: things that Apple had, And that just completely opened my 62 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 3: mind to like making stuff because I think music is 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 3: the most like innate part of me in the most 64 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 3: way that. 65 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 2: I like to express myself. 66 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 3: But I just love to make stuff, Like I'm a 67 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 3: really really curious person, and whether it's video or music 68 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: or like you know, woodworking or like three D printing, 69 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 3: Like I have a three D printer in that closet, 70 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 3: and I'm just like always trying to figure out how 71 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 3: stuff works, and garage. 72 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: Band was just like the immediate hook. 73 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 3: And so from that point on, like I never played 74 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 3: video games or I never did any like activities like that, 75 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 3: Like garage band was my game. 76 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: There's my dog again. 77 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: It sounds like it might be a delivery or your 78 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 1: dog has a question for you. 79 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 3: No, he he's like anybody's that's walking on the street. 80 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 2: He's just like making himself known today. Hey Bennie, Bennie, 81 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 2: come here. 82 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: Hey Vinnie, you want to be on a podcast? 83 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 2: He would love that. All right, Hey Bennie, come on, 84 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 2: come here. 85 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: He thinks he owns the place because he does. Yeah right, Yeah, 86 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: Well you're going to take us inside the creation a 87 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: little bit later on of super Bloom and some of 88 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: the influences in creative process. But as you're talking about 89 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: your fascination with how things work, have you been someone 90 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: who likes to kind of reverse engineer things, whether it 91 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: be you know, a printer or whether it be you know, 92 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: your keyboard. Are you always kind of fixated on just 93 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: trying different things? 94 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. Yeah. I think there's definitely a sense of like. 95 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 3: The DIY spirit, where like I have to prove that 96 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 3: I can do it, and I think I'm really just 97 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 3: proving it to myself. And I think, like a really 98 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 3: true intrinsic like look at it would be like I 99 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 3: don't think I can do it, and so I have 100 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 3: to prove to myself that I can. So it's like 101 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 3: a self worth thing and that goes towards like everything 102 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 3: that I create. It's just that sense of like proving 103 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 3: to myself that I can do anything. 104 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: You know. 105 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 2: Where from the outside that might. 106 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 3: Seem like it's coming from a place of like complete confidence, 107 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 3: like I can do anything, but I feel like every 108 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 3: time I'm like restarting, thinking I can't, so I have 109 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 3: to prove that I can do it, which yeah, just 110 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: like gives me a very like explorative spirit of like 111 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 3: trying new things. And I'm just like always watching YouTube 112 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 3: and just like tutorial things on like very niche stuff, 113 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 3: and I'm just obsessed with like, yeah, proving that I 114 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 3: can do it for better for worse. 115 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 2: You know. 116 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: Well, it's a great confidence builder. Being curious, and it 117 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: really is. Yeah, you know, it sparks so many different 118 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: areas in your life, whether it be the musical side 119 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: or whether it be with new technology. What are you 120 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: taking away these days in the burst upon the scene 121 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: in the last certainly couple of years of artificial intelligence. 122 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm like I'm trying 123 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 3: to I don't. I really don't know that much about 124 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 3: the AI stuff. Like, you know, it's pretty weird and 125 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 3: like people are like making people that don't exist and 126 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 3: that type of stuff, which just goes into like social 127 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 3: media in general. It's just like I don't know, I 128 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 3: don't know if that's really technically good for us at 129 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 3: least like this version of humanity. Who knows if will 130 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 3: like evolved for it to be good for us or something. 131 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 2: But I don't know. 132 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 3: I mean, it's just such a crazy time with artificial 133 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 3: intelligence and art and stuff. But I think, like Rick Rubin, 134 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 3: there's a video and when I was watching it, all 135 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 3: the comments were like saying, what if this is AI? 136 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 3: So because he's like saying, it's a video of Rick 137 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 3: Rubin talking about AI. But then that's the irony. I 138 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 3: don't know if it's real. I'm pretty sure it is, 139 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: but he's like talking about AI and saying that the 140 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 3: greatest part of like things that work and art that 141 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 3: stands out is technically like unpredictable error basically, and how 142 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 3: like that's what the human touch is, and like it 143 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 3: can't be reduced down to like one thing that code 144 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 3: could ever write, because humanity doesn't make sense, and like 145 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 3: we are always making mistakes, and that's what propels us 146 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 3: forward is usually like mistakes that end up being a 147 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 3: good thing, and AI like doesn't want to make mistakes 148 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 3: at all, you know, And that's just not how people are. 149 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 3: And I feel like that's how a lot of songs 150 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 3: that I've made get written, is like I accidentally do 151 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 3: something and it's like, oh that worked, you know, Like 152 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 3: the birth of rock and roll was like they like 153 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 3: accidentally broken amp, you know. So I think that's kind 154 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 3: of what propels us forward, and AI doesn't have a 155 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 3: chance with that, you know. 156 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: Amen, Well take us through the moment you decided to 157 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: start day Glow. 158 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 3: I was in high school and I lived in a 159 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 3: small town in Texas, and I wasn't around any type 160 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 3: of art scene at all. And yeah, I just, like, 161 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 3: like I was saying, just loved making music. But I 162 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 3: wasn't at all like connected to the industry of any way, 163 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 3: shape or form. Like I didn't even know really anybody 164 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 3: apart from like one of my friends and even liked 165 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 3: music that was like, you know, I care about this band. 166 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 3: Obviously there was like girls that like the Jonas Brothers 167 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 3: or something, but there wasn't like, you know, this band 168 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 3: is cool and I the alternative scene and all that, 169 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 3: Like I have no one around. 170 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 2: Me really cared. 171 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just making music alone and I decided 172 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 3: to start putting it on the internet just by myself and. 173 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 2: Just put it as the name of day Glow because. 174 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 3: There was a band or a song that I liked 175 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 3: called day Glow by this band called Brasis. 176 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, just like released my song's Fuzzy Brain. 177 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 3: My first album was like just the collection of songs 178 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 3: because I was like, I want to finish an album 179 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 3: by the end of summer and before I go to college. 180 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 3: And so the week I left for college, I just 181 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 3: like uploaded Fuzzy Brain on like tunecore, CD baby or 182 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 3: something for like twenty bucks and then uh yeah, just. 183 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 2: The algorithm did its thing. It's crazy. I never thought 184 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 2: in a million years that. 185 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 3: It would be like an actual career, especially to the 186 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 3: extent that it's been already. 187 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 2: So super grateful for that. 188 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 3: But yeah, and like can I Call You a Night 189 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 3: and hot Rod and all those songs, I'm like seventeen 190 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 3: in them, and it's like, it's just so crazy to 191 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 3: think like that it's still just propelling my life forward 192 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 3: what I did when I was seventeen. 193 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: You know, it's wild and it must be crazy waking 194 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: up one morning and then seeing the fact that, as 195 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: you put it, the algorithm had done its job, and yeah, 196 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: something has just taken off and gone crazy totally. What 197 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: is that feeling? 198 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 2: Like? 199 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 3: Man, I think it is a blessing and a curse, 200 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 3: Like it's a virality, is definitely a drug, and like 201 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 3: once you get it, it's like very hard to unwire 202 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 3: your brain to like need the viral thing again. 203 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 2: And that's just like the way the industry is shaped now. 204 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 2: It's like you have to go viral, which that sucks. 205 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 3: But yeah, I just remember like one day in college, 206 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 3: I was like getting breakfast and I saw that Spotify 207 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 3: had like naturally put two of my songs on like 208 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 3: a new playlist that they made called bedroom Pop. And 209 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 3: then that's like how everything kind of propelled forward so 210 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 3: random and so organic, So that was cool. It was 211 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 3: cool that like it wasn't planted in any way it 212 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 3: was like really really organic. 213 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: Which is cool. 214 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: So who were the biggest musical influences You mentioned Paul 215 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: McCartney at the outset certainly, but who are some other 216 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: influences and how do they shape your sound to this day. 217 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 3: I was seventeen when I made a lot of Fuzzy 218 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 3: Breen like seventeen and eighteen, and like, I love that music. 219 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: But like your music taste changes, especially like in these 220 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 3: formative years, and so it's just changed over time, like 221 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 3: and I think people have seen that happen, like as 222 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 3: my music taste evolves, like the music I'm making is 223 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 3: pretty different, and I think the people that are through 224 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 3: lines through all of it are just the musicians of 225 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 3: the eighties and you know earlier. So like I grew 226 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 3: up listening to a lot of James Taylor, I love 227 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 3: the Beatles, and Paul McCartney, love Paul Simon, I love 228 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 3: Phil Collins, Harmony House. My second album was like very 229 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 3: Doobie Brothers Michael McDonald influenced, and those are kind of 230 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 3: like the true to myself like Bruce Hornsby, like true 231 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 3: to Myself music passions. Then there's also like the alternative 232 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 3: indie stuff, so like this recent album was like a 233 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 3: lot like The Strokes and like Phoenix and just kind 234 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 3: of that era of like you know, twenty ten indie pop. 235 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: So the the project super Bloom has a fascinating array 236 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: of songs and styles to it. I'm gonna highlight a 237 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: couple of them here and get your reflection on it 238 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: and maybe take us inside your mind and your creative process. 239 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: First of all, the song broken Bone, tell me about 240 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: that one. 241 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 3: It's like a jam song, so a band I was 242 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 3: really listening to on this most recent record, which is 243 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 3: like totally out of left field, but I was listening 244 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 3: to like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, so they 245 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 3: do like I mean, they're known for just releasing tons 246 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 3: of music and they have like twenty five albums already 247 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 3: or something. 248 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: But it's like generally just like. 249 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 3: Jam rock, and I was listening to a lot of 250 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 3: that and just like learning how to play the electric 251 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 3: guitar better and with that, like you know, Pink Floyd 252 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 3: and just like epic electric guitar bands and stuff. Was 253 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 3: I think what I was scared to do and embrace 254 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 3: is that like emotional guitar playing type thing where it's like. 255 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I think Broken Bone is. 256 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 3: Just kind of like facing your fears, and musically I 257 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 3: did that as well and just had like this epic 258 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 3: psych solo at the end. But yeah, it's a song 259 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 3: with like tons of layers, but I'd say just like 260 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 3: mostly about facing your fears and letting life happen, like 261 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 3: letting things break and feeling the pain of that and 262 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 3: then like waiting patiently for them to heal again. Was 263 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 3: generally kind of the ethos behind it. 264 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: It's it's a great one. I want to ask you 265 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: about another one that I really like, called Cocoon. 266 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 3: So yeah, so Cocoon's kind of the same driven feeling 267 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 3: of just like just like a high energy song, like 268 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 3: a lot of the songs on this record. Just my 269 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 3: heart was racing and just like let's go and like 270 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 3: using high energy music to like. 271 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 2: Meet your anxiety. 272 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 3: So like I always thought, like, you know, if you're 273 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 3: feeling anxious, you should like listen to calm music, which 274 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 3: is probably true, but when listening to King Gizzard, it 275 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 3: clicked for me the connection that people have to like 276 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 3: meddle and high energy like rock music and how it 277 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 3: like makes them peaceful people. Because a lot of people 278 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 3: that like listen to that time of music are like 279 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 3: calm and like chill, and that just never made sense 280 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 3: to me until making this record, where I was like 281 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 3: trying to make these songs that were like addressing and 282 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 3: powering through my anxiety. And I think Cocoon as that 283 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 3: same message, as like broken Bone of just like facing 284 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 3: your fears and just rocking out at the same time. 285 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: You know, you know, a lot of your music I 286 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: think showcases that you have so much wisdom, but you're 287 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 1: a young fella. And one song that really strikes me 288 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 1: in that way as well is the one called Old Friend, 289 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: New Face. Tell me about that one. 290 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 2: Old Friend New Faces. 291 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 3: I had had that instrumentation, like the instrumental for a while, 292 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 3: and production wise, I just wanted it to like really 293 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 3: embody that twenty ten MySpace indie pop thing where like 294 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 3: Passion Pit and Tudor Cinema Club and those kind of 295 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 3: bands sonically, but lyrically it's like a song about facing 296 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 3: and embracing like change in other people. 297 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 2: I guess yeah. 298 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 3: I mean most of my songs are just about like 299 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 3: growing up and changing and dealing with change and old 300 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 3: friendly faces, like processing change somebody else is going. 301 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: Through So what role do you think community, whether it's 302 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 1: it's friends or family or fans, play in your creative life. 303 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 3: Creative life, I mean fans for sure. Like I think 304 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 3: I have a great connection with my fans. I think 305 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 3: my fans are really unique in the way that they're 306 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 3: like really chill people, but they're also for the most 307 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 3: part young. Like I've never had any moments with my 308 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 3: fans that are like like. 309 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 2: They idolize me in any way. 310 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 3: Like, I definitely feel like I have fans like look 311 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 3: up to me and they care what I have to say, 312 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 3: but like if a fan sees me in the street, 313 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 3: it's never like freaking out or something like everybody's super chill. 314 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm friends with all my fans. 315 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 3: Which is really cool, and so yeah, I just always 316 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 3: keep in mind like how they'll perceive what's going on, Yeah, 317 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 3: just like the live show and how that'll translate. And 318 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 3: having people in my life as well that just know 319 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 3: what's going on and are there beside me is incredibly important. 320 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 3: I think, like creatively, it's awesome to just have fans 321 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 3: that have like grown up with me, because yeah, like 322 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 3: a lot of my fans are my age and we're 323 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 3: eighteen around Fuzzy Brain, and so like we're all kind 324 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 3: of growing up together, and I have like I'm kind 325 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,360 Speaker 3: of like a spokesperson in some ways, and so I'm 326 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 3: like just trying to make sure that I am making 327 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 3: good music at least. 328 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: You know, you must be excited to taking these new 329 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: songs to the road. 330 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm stoked. 331 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 3: We don't have like a tour planned right now, but 332 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 3: really hope and I'm sure we will soon. But yeah, 333 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 3: I love playing live like I love playing shows so much. 334 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the best. 335 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: Well, it's been so great to talk to you. I 336 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: want to congratulate you on super Bloom and all your 337 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: great work and you're just your creator process. Thank you 338 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: for sharing it. It's really just a fantastic to meet you. 339 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: Daglo Sloan Struble. Thanks for being on Taking a Walk 340 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: and sharing your story. 341 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thanks for having me. This is great. 342 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this episode of the Taking a 343 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 1: Walk podcast. 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