Features / Music

“They’re not as savvy as other people. It’s not like anyone in a country town has ever heard of fuckin’ Die Antwoord or Lightning Bolt, you know what I mean?”

"We’ve been sort of pretty distant and absent from the scene for quite a while, and we’ve been focusing on getting the new material ready to go and we tend to fuss over the details."

"Well, hopefully I can convey something about how a guy like me who’s never had platinum records and never played [stadiums] still makes a living after thirty years in the industry."

“I think I’m an urban creature at heart, but I really needed to tune out a lot of noise. Not so much the city, but the internet."

“I think it’s a good thing that we finished it a while ago. Now that it’s actually coming to the release date, it’s really excited us to make more music."

“We were still in high school when Haptics came together. It was more of a collection of songs we had amassed over time."

"We’ll do that maybe twice a year to work on demos and stuff but we communicate every day by text or email; we still have an active friendship, it’s not just like music production together, I talk to him every day. But yeah, I don’t see him that often unfortunately...”

“They have known about us and our name for quite a while, so it’s annoying that it came up in the middle of us releasing an EP, after we got 1500 copies of the Cub Scouts Paradise EP."

"The most recent one was that we were part of the Illuminati, because of the owls that we use. Like a secret society. I don’t remember the whole thing, but it’s like a big conspiracy thing."

“We’ve been focusing so much on the Bernard Fanning set for a while, so it will be great to get back on stage with The Freqs and rock our set."

“There’s certainly no game plan about what we do; we might have an idea or two, but not much else."

"I’m a violinist, having trained since I was four; I hadn’t even held an electric instrument until I was 18."