It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.
I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.
I think music changes and it evolves.
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.