Seeds Of Doubt: Seedy.

Seeds Of Doubt play live to air on 4ZZZ at 5pm Wednesday and the B Lounge on Thursday.

“The band is really like a second personality in all of us,” Anthony Heartland explains. We’ve all got our separate careers, but we’re all working hard to get thing played and it’s still a lot of fun for us. It never seems like hard work.”

It’s over two years now since Anthony and fellow local Matt Page formed the nucleus of Seeds Of Doubt. Two more members were quickly located in their shared workplace, and the band was complete. A four track demo soon followed, since capped with the release of their Turn Me On single in August last year. The band have been in the studio once again to put together its follow up.

“We’re recording our new EP at the moment. We’ve had the tracks around for a while. One of the songs is one of the first songs we did when the band got together about two years ago. It’s amazing how much difference there is between how it started out and how we sound now.”

Seeds Of Doubt have been developing new facets to their sound since first coming together, and this is reflected in their newer material.

“It seems like all our songs are in a constant state of evolution, and they change through practice or even through playing live. It’s great, it means things stay fresh and we don’t get bored with it.”

The list of influences the band cites include such luminaries as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Ben Folds Five and the Manic Street Preachers. With such a diverse range of sounds mixed in, it’s hard to thing the band would have time to get bored at all.

“There’s a definite seeds sound now,” he explains. “It’s actually quite difficult to put our influences down. That’s just a few of them. Our new recordings have a lot more heavy undertones as compared to Turn Me On. It’s great for us, because we enjoy the diversity, but it’s not so good for people trying to book us or people coming to the shows, because people don’t really know what to expect. We play acoustically for some shows, and there’s three songwriters in the band, so songs all song different. We end up with I think a pretty definitive Seeds sound.”

The advantages of having three songwriters is obvious in the wealth of material the band has to work with.

“Songs just come naturally for us. I don’t think there’s any problems with having a too much information, but there can be some butting of heads. We work remarkably well together. We’ve got a really good friendship between the four of us already. We all met in the same workplace, but it’s like any group of people spending too much time together. There can be times when you just want to kill each other, but you just pat each other on the back, have a beer and get back to playing.”

This weeks sets give you an opportunity to catch both sides of the band, with an acoustic radio session before the Thursday rock show.

“I’m surprised with how our songs transfer across. We usually start playing electrically, but you can really strip it back to just an single acoustic guitar. It’s not really an issue for us (being able to play acoustic versions of tracks). If it sounds good it doesn’t really matter.”