Pop-rockers Iceage Sugar launch their latest single, Sometime (Take You Out), at The Odd Fellow on Thursday, July 31, with support from Della Fern, Braves and Petrichoral. Bassist Dillon Reid fills us in.
What’s the Iceage Sugar story?
We all know each other initially from high school and a few of us (me, Alexander Jackaman - guitar, Jesse Reid - drums) played casually together in a few bands before we decided to bring Joshua Goldamn (vocals, guitar) on board and form Iceage Sugar. It doesn’t get more Hollywood than that.
What’s your sound?
We like to think our sound is primarily indie pop/rock, and we throw around the term “deep-sea pop” sometimes to be special. Some of our bigger influences include The Jungle Giants, Mac DeMarco, Arctic Monkeys and The Neighbourhood.
Tell us about your writing process.
One of us will come up with an idea, most likely a guitar riff, then we will try to figure it out as a band; it’s not really an exact science. Occasionally it just becomes a matter of how many different good songs we can rip off in one track.
What’s the story with Sometime (Take You Out)?
It’s a bouncy little number that goes down really well live. The lyrics aren’t exactly prose poetry but they’re fun to sing along to. We recorded the track with some sound students at Central Leederville. It was a bit challenging to capture the energy the song has live but it sounds alright.
What does the rest of the year hold for you?
We’ll just be playing as many gigs as we can. We are also taking the single on the road with us for a little regional tour, hitting Four5Nine on Friday, July 31; Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Saturday August 1; and Caves House in Yallingup on Sunday, August 2.
Originally published in X-Press Magazine
