Career Music

"It's been crafted over a number of years,” guitarist Brett Fox explains. “We've played in bands, or a few of us, prior to this. Jorjee [Haman, singer] and I have known each other since high school, so we've kind of grown through all these all different tastes and styles of music and it's kind of mashed together to be this. I think what we're trying to do is create something that's different – you know, it's really hard at the moment to stand out but we're trying – and dynamics is a huge part of that. We just want to create something that is really, really interesting, without sacrificing by becoming too pop or anything like that.”

And there are certainly elements of all manner of genres evident including – in the last track, Blue Hearts On Valentines – a dash of death metal.

“We're always looking at the big goal,” Fox continues after chuckling at that reference, “which is, eventually we really wanna to get to the European circuit and play the festivals over there, and I find a lot of the music that's out today, all the jangly pop that you're hearing, it's not something that can sustain in a stadium, and that's something that we want, a really big sound that you can hear projected to all those audiences over there. With longevity is what it comes down to. We want a long career out of this. We don't want to be some one-hit wonder band; we want to play and actually grow with our fans as well.

“Things like 'flavour of the month' music,” adds Haman, “just to get a bit of attention, we've sort of kept true to what we want to be doing. We don't want to be pigeonholed in that sort of genre either.”

Like a lot of high school musicians, Haman and Fox, along with bass player Alex Milano and drummer Daniel James Tsoltoudis, went through their pop punk phase, but feel their tastes have matured.

“The kind of artists we really respect,” Fox admits, “we love the Smashing Pumpkins; we love the bigger kind of bands that have longevity. I mean this guy [pointing at Haman] loves Bruce Springsteen as well, and I guess the main thing that stands out about them is they have music that withstands the test of time. Their fans really respect their music, it's not a fad. So it has taken a while to mould our sound to that, and it also means that it makes it more difficult to get new fans because we're not, like, 'the flavour of the month' kind of music. The fans that we have are really passionate.”

“It's not so much a conscious effort I don't think either,” Haman expands. “It has developed over time, through all the influences that all of us bring individually bring to the band, it sort of has developed into this.”

It's music from the heart, they agree. “That's what we do it for,” Fox affirms. “That is exactly what we do, very emotional music. We find that our music is ups and downs. I think the most important thing that we tried to achieve with this record [The Memo] was the fact that we didn't want it to be like, 'okay, this is our single, Monday Mourning, and these are a bunch of songs that we think are cool to go with it'. The whole point was, it was very structured and thought out to the point where we were like, this has to be a journey – we sort of looked at this like a mini album. Every song stands on its own two feet and tells a story of what the band's about.”

Creo will be playing the following dates:

Saturday 20 April - Goodgod Small Club, Sydney NSW