{"id":629155,"date":"2024-07-29T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T19:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:05:27","slug":"crack-cloud-come-up-for-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air\/","title":{"rendered":"#Crack Cloud come up for air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: #ff0000;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: #ff0000;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #ff0000;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262838\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Crack Cloud come up for air\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      After almost a decade of non-stop touring and grinding, the Canadian punk collective finally had a chance to breathe on their Jagjaguwar debut, <i>Red Mile<\/i>.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed-16-1668x1112_sgwtyy\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed-16-1668x1112_sgwtyy\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 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   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Twitter-8d78f695280aa3f8a4461702c68e9fcbfd6042af1600c62d49fdec4b735fb57a.png\"><br \/>\n    <!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262824\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\">There\u2019s a reason why<\/span> so many musicians have written and recorded albums in Joshua Tree. The Mojave is sparse and desolate, eerie in its silence, cooked sand dotted with alien-seeming flora and carnivorous fauna. Day-to-day distractions dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear. It is the perfect place to breathe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            The mostly Calgary-based punk collective Crack Cloud started in 2016 presenting \u201cart as a means of performative and rehabilitative healing,\u201d tied together by histories of addiction, mutinous energies, and an expansive set of influences. They sounded obtuse and vital, the group\u2019s founder, lead singer, and drummer Zach Choy a snarling presence in the foreground, and they carried that energy through two increasingly expansive albums, 2020\u2019s Pain Olympics and 2022\u2019s Tough Baby. In the six years from their formation through the end of that tour, they didn\u2019t rest. Some members dropped out, some stepped in to replace them, different formations toured the world, and the machine kept rolling.<\/p>\n<p>            Finally, in 2022, they had a chance to stop and think about reconciling their personal lives with their lives as musicians. For Choy, that meant making a Crack Cloud record, channeling his thoughts onto the page. The lineup was set at a relatively modest seven musicians: Choy, Aleem Khan, Bryce Cloghesy, Will Choy, Emma Acs, Eve Adams, and Nathaniel Philips, with Aidan Pontarini working as their Creative Director. Within a few months of leaving the road, they\u2019d decamped to the outskirts of Joshua Tree in the Mojave, where Cloghesy had set up a studio, and started work on what would become their third album, <i>Red Mile<\/i>, out now via Jagjaguwar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262830\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1315849594\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/crackcloud.bandcamp.com\/album\/red-mile\">Red Mile by Crack Cloud<\/a><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262827\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            The record is confounding and occasionally cryptic, smart and very self-conscious. Choy spent much of his time in the desert trying to understand the lives of his grandparents, who had fled China for Canada during Mao\u2019s Great Leap Forward; he read history at night, alone. \u201cBlue Kite,\u201d the third track on the record, nods to Tian Zhuangzhuang\u2019s 1993 film The Blue Kite, a story about <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> conformity through the Cultural Revolution \u2014 a fitting cultural touchstone for a man with \u201cLaughing At The System\u201d tattooed above his bellybutton. \u201cThe Medium,\u201d the lead single from the album, is a meta-commentary on pop music and a reference to Canadian cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan, its melody intentionally calibrated as a piece of performance art as much as a pop song. Speaking to Choy, Khan, and Cloghesy, the latter of whom was calling in from the desert with a background so stereotypically Joshua Tree it could have been a green screen, I wondered if going to the desert itself was another part of the carefully orchestrated image: What if we made a rock album in the desert, like Queens of the Stone Age!<\/p>\n<p>            But even as you begin to peel back those layers,<i> Red Mile<\/i> remains a visceral, vivid rock record. \u201cEpitaph\u201d grapples with the lineage of ideas through history, but the germ of that idea allows the song to blossom into a beautifully minimal downtempo pop song. \u201cLost on the Red Mile\u201d is sweeping and grand and seductively freeform, the result of freeform improvisation and a deep understanding of harmony. \u201cThe Medium\u201d might be a meta-commentary on pop structures, but it also nails those structures. <\/p>\n<p>            Just before <i>Red Mile<\/i>\u2019s release, I spoke with three-sevenths of the band about the Mojave Desert, \u201cThe Medium,\u201d and freefalling through time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262831\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crack Cloud - Blue Kite (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9SakhIBRn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262825\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: What effect did the desert have on this album?<\/b>\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Zach Choy:<\/b> It&#8217;s interesting that we gravitated to such a desolate environment, and I think it&#8217;s somewhat indicative of our mental state at the time, a liminal space that we were wavering in and between as a group and in our personal lives. Crack Cloud has been around for almost a decade, and all of that time has felt so compressed. But as soon as touring came to an end in 2022, we had to confront a lot about the trajectory we were on \u2013 this duality that we were living, being on the road and then the other side here at home cultivating families.<\/p>\n<p>            Rehabilitation was at the forefront of the whole inception of the group. Time goes on and we change as people, and I think there was an arrested development that eventually crept up on us. We had to come home dig into ourselves and align ourselves with what, after all of this time, we consider valuable and important for our health and for our own creative spirituality. That really guided us into the desert, and I think it&#8217;s quite curious and profound when I think about it in retrospect. There&#8217;s something so interesting about the psychophysical and how we manifest our environment. The metaphor of it, the elemental properties of the desert, and the destitution of it all is really conducive to the kind of reflection that we required as a group and as people.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>When you did come off tour, did you think about reflecting in a way that wasn&#8217;t getting music down onto tape? Did you think about taking a real break?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>ZC:<\/b> It didn&#8217;t occur to us. We adapted our sound and the configuration of our group and our output in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>. There&#8217;s a lot to explore with these themes of ambivalence and exhaustion that one can and will experience in life, especially when your life revolves around a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing and is egocentric \u2013 which you can&#8217;t separate from making art. There&#8217;s this ceaseless psychoanalysis that you&#8217;re partaking in as a creative person, and then when you introduce a public platform and when you introduce cultural rhetoric, it&#8217;s a very peculiar thing. It&#8217;s not for the faint of heart, and I think a lot of people try to avoid these feelings. I mean, people don&#8217;t avoid it; people burn out, people die. We see the adverse effects of what it looks like to be a creative in the world, especially with the backdrop of 2024, but to infinity throughout history. It&#8217;s an interesting preoccupation.<\/p>\n<p>            We were feeling up against ourselves, and instead of taking a cynical route or a combative route, we found just this lucidity and the quietude of the desert. Maybe there&#8217;s a quietude to the album. It embodies our work in Joshua Tree and what we&#8217;ve been up to the last year. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262855\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cWe came out of a really strong narrative, and I think people resonated with it, and it sure as hell helped a lot of us \u2013 but that\u2019s not the end of any story.\u201d \u2014 Zach Choy<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262856\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>You&#8217;re talking about art there as a sort of egocentrism. But Crack Cloud\u2019s roots are in punk and community. Is there a friction between those things? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>ZC:<\/b> I think community is as fluid as identity itself. And over time I suspect that everyone experiences these fluctuations in their environment and in the people that they surround themselves and their own idealisms and politics. There was this nostalgic sort of sentimentality that we felt like we needed to cling onto at a certain point in our development as a group. We came out of a really strong narrative, and I think people resonated with it, and it sure as hell helped a lot of us \u2013 but that&#8217;s not the end of any story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Even as an addict, you don&#8217;t cross the checkpoint and then it&#8217;s over and it&#8217;s this mellow, static wash of balance and catharsis. It&#8217;s changing all the time, and, on a macro scale too, culture changes. I would say that Crack Cloud is just very symptomatic of the ebb and flow of our time and place as a generation, as a culture, and also as people making observations and dedicating our time to embodying them through art. I suspect it&#8217;ll look very different five years from now. And two years from now.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You were reading about Mao and the Great Leap Forward. What were you reading specifically?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>ZC:<\/b> History. Over my life, there&#8217;s been a cumulative desire to understand my heritage and to be able to contextualize my grandparents \u2013 what their world looked like, what the political climate looked like, what prompted them to come to Canada. I think that as a first-generation person here in Canada, at a certain point, you have to reconcile with your environment. There&#8217;s something paradoxical because, in one sense, this is all you, and any kind of ambivalence you have for the culture feels trivial when you know that your grandparents left a lot behind to cultivate a new life in a new place. To understand those motivations, to understand what they intended to do when leaving their home behind, was compelling. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>How conscious was the rest of Crack Cloud about what Zach was bringing lyrically and conceptually?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Aleem Khan:<\/b> First, we&#8217;re always having debates, philosophical discussions, throwing jokes at each other, whatever. The beauty of this setup is that we&#8217;re all open to each other&#8217;s personal perspectives. But it\u2019s universal perspectives that Zach is really writing about. He has these beautiful metaphors and analogies on the record. You can hear references to true things within history that absolutely do relate to this day and age. For example, the melody of our song, \u201cThe Medium,\u201d the chords chosen, and the production of it.<\/p>\n<p>            It&#8217;s pretty much a worldview that still needs to be explored and needs to have the ability to breathe and needs to be able to flourish. So, whatever notes you play or chords you choose, whatever instruments you know how to play, regardless of any of this stuff, unity and respect are ultimately the true guiding principles that allow us to have these conversations. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262858\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Throughout the album Zach sings about being unrestrained or freed. It sounds like, especially the way that you&#8217;re talking about \u201cThe Medium,\u201d that means being free to explore genre, explore sounds, or explore ideas \u2013 even explore different times without being limited.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>ZC:<\/b> I was having a conversation with Aidan Pontarini, who has been creatively essential to all of the output for <i>Red Mile<\/i>. We were talking about risk and how not only is it relative, but it&#8217;s also subjective what risk looks like for different people. Crack Cloud is chronically in this state of risk, trying to do what is antithetical to what we&#8217;ve already done. In a way, this record feels like a regression historically and stylistically \u2013 the way that we&#8217;ve decidedly returned to this older way of recording and of writing. The production is far more scaled back and there&#8217;s a lot of tradition to it, but that&#8217;s not really something that we&#8217;ve ever entertained before. And so as late bloomers to return to this old world felt very much like the kind of risk we wanted to take on, and there&#8217;s something very freeing about that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>The film The Blue Kite, which is explicitly referenced on the record, was important to you, Zach. Again it foregrounds this idea of creativity and freedom being stifled \u2013 something you emphatically counteract with the album cover. What drew you to The Blue Kite and how do you think it&#8217;s drawn out on the record?<br \/><\/b><br \/><b>ZC:<\/b> Partially it has to do with heritage. But beyond that, there was this strong criticism of conformity in the movie in relation to the communist regime at the time. It felt so adjacent to a lot of the rhetoric and a lot of the gatekeeping we experience today. I&#8217;ve always personally struggled with conformity, and I don&#8217;t say that proudly or idealistically. I think there&#8217;s just an issue there, and I&#8217;ve utilized that. I&#8217;ve transformed that into the way that I make art. In 2024, post-punk feels like such an archaic, redundant, pretentious way to describe what is basically an institution or an industry in and of itself. And there&#8217;s a lot of posturing around the genre, a lot of retrograde feelings about what constitutes this or that. We wanted to abandon all of those notions and start from the ground up. Visually we were able to connect to that sentiment through the metaphor of the skydiver. Creatively, and musically, that&#8217;s what we set out to do. And that&#8217;s what we did.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262835\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crack Cloud - The Medium [Official Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4o33nlyPkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262859\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Crack_Cloud_by_Megan-Magdalena_Bourne_ou9qxh\/crack-cloud-come-up-for-air-red-mile-interview-2024.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Crack Cloud come up for air\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Megan-Magdalena Bourne<br \/>\n        \/<\/p>\n<p>      Press<br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262836\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>It\u2019s funny that you put \u201cThe Medium\u201d in that context because I heard it on one level as an earnest celebration of rock music.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>AK:<\/b> I&#8217;ve studied music history since I started playing the electric guitar at age 12. And so 50s and 60s culture, pop culture, music, film, fashion, food, these types of things. I love those old pop songs. But those things were the veil for deep hardship. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Being humorous guys\u2026 we love improvising. We can play the hell out of whatever you want. But dumb it down, less is more. [We were] dumbing it all down and making a really simple, catchy little melody to kind of piss you off. But still, together we really mean what we&#8217;re saying with anything we do. We really, really deeply mean it. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>ZC:<\/b> When there&#8217;s something we&#8217;re navigating with Crack Cloud \u2013 and this goes towards life itself and any kind of emotional state \u2013 I think art&#8217;s a fun way to speak to these. It was this idea of us signing to a label and the pretensions that are attached to that, the sort of contingencies that you would imagine \u2013 which the label that we work with, they&#8217;ve been nothing but accommodating and supportive of all of our idiosyncrasies. But there was something preemptive to writing \u201cThe Medium\u201d as a sellout song. As indulgent as it is and was, I think we got a good laugh out of making it. And there&#8217;s also a history to it, a history to the chords.<\/p>\n<p>            There&#8217;s a language in the chords that dates back hundreds of years, and there&#8217;s something really beautiful in that as well. Alex, as you&#8217;ve said, there&#8217;s something to celebrate and not to brush off about the potency of pop music and of melody and of timelessness. \u201cThe Medium\u201d is by no means original. It&#8217;s throughout the centuries, and it will continue to be used by groups long after we&#8217;ve perished. There&#8217;s a celebration in that too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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