{"id":3098,"date":"2022-08-07T00:50:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T00:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostinthenordics.com\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2022-08-07T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T00:50:28","slug":"interview-the-loud-bangs-the-alice-experience-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightshiftblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/interview-the-loud-bangs-the-alice-experience-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: The Loud Bangs – The Alice Experience EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“LA all-female shoegaze. New band in 2022, but this is our fourth 5-song EP this year. Still building listeners, but lots of great press. Trying to add something new to the sub-genre.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those that haven\u2019t heard of you yet, how would you best describe your sound and who have been your biggest influences so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What! Everyone\u2019s heard of us! But for those in Antarctica or in prison, we can tell you that our sound is based on the music and influences of Alice Street (guitar, vocals). She likes heavy guitars, melodies, and psychedelia. Along with her damage, the rest of the band is always on everything we do. For example, with our song \u2018New Flavors\u2019 \u2013 the guitars are MY BLOODY VALENTINE, the vocal is COCTEAU TWINS, the bass is
TALKING HEADS, and the drums are CHIC. It\u2019s the explosion that makes it THE LOUD
BANGS.
Mostly, we\u2019re a Shoegaze band. Crowded tracks. Phased Guitars. Blurry vocals. Pop sensibility. We\u2019re not purely Shoegaze, though, so we\u2019re either moving the sub-genre in a new direction or just fucking ruining it. We add-in lots of 90s music from when we were kids, plus dance grooves \u2018cos we do love all that Euro-club bullshit.
We should mention our songs are about mental health. We\u2019ve been dubbed (not by us) as \u2018the Pink Floyd of Shoegaze,\u2019 since our music has a lot of floating about in a hotel swimming pool with a cut-up hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where are you based and can you tell us how the music scene there has inspired your sound?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles, California, USA! We grew up on the Sunset Strip. That scene\u2019s not built for Shoegaze, though \u2013 we love the clothes, the personalities, the volume, the rock club vibe, but we find our noisiness elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you remember what the first song was that made you want to start a career in music?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Alice, it was \u2018Connection\u2019 by ELASTICA. For Daisy Gutierrez (vocals, guitar,synths), it was \u2018The Future\u2019 by PARAMORE. For Hannah Remley (bass), it was \u2018Burning Down the House\u2019 by TALKING HEADS. For Marcus Nemuro (drums), it was \u2018Piggy\u2019 by NINE INCH NAILS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have just released your new EP \u2018The Alice Experience.\u2019 Can you tell us how that came about? Is there a story behind it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


<\/strong>People think we\u2019re prolific and, I guess if you didn\u2019t know us, you would think that was true. We\u2019re actually lazy. Yet somehow, we released 21 songs in 6 months. We started in the summer of 2021 and the first EP was done by October. Then we were going to do a 10-song album, but the label split it into two five-song EPs (which were all
reconfigured a bit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Alice Experience\u2019 is a B-sides EP (though it\u2019s not being marketed that way). Three leftovers from the \u2018Introducing The Loud Bangs\u2019 sessions, one from the \u2018Zaera\u2019 sessions, plus a duet with rapper K C Q. Nothing wrong with these songs, they just didn\u2019t fit with the prior releases. For example, \u2018The Gloria Films\u2019 got cut because it was similar to \u2018New Flavors.\u2019 Both songs are good, but they checked the same boxes, so we decided to spread them out on different releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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