Chords for Heavy New York-Dayseeker Interview

_ _ _ _ [F] Heavy, [F#] Heavy, Heavy [C] New York!
_ _ What's up [A#m] everybody, it's [A] Alex from Heavy New York.
We are back at the [N] Gramercy Theater and we are here with Rory of Dayseeker.
Thank you so much for being here.
Yeah, thanks for having me man.
I appreciate it.
And for those of you watching, we also have the entirety of the rest of the bill in this
dressing room pretty much as well.
You just can't see it.
Yeah, they're keeping quiet like good boys.
So yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
We just totally jinxed it now.
Yeah.
But first thing is always first, so your new record Sleep Talk, absolutely awesome.
It sounds great.
Do you just want to talk about how the making of this record was, the recording, mixing,
all that fun stuff?
Yeah, we recorded a single for a song called Crooked Soul with our engineer Daniel Braunstein
out in Los Angeles and it was kind of just a trial run to see how it would go with him.
And we really vibed with him and we decided to commit to doing the whole album.
And so I think we kind of had a vision going into it that we wanted to take a step back
from like more of the metalcore, post hardcore world.
And he typically works in a pop actually, and he just had a lot of great, great ideas
with like production.
So I'm super, super happy with how it turned out.
Yeah.
Awesome.
You mentioned that there was kind of like a preconceived idea with how you wanted this
record to sound.
Sometimes, you know, when you have like a preconceived idea that could almost dictate
you too much.
But like, was there at all maybe like any improvising with the record at all?
Yeah, a lot of it, actually.
I mean, there were tracks on the album that would start off as like post hardcore songs
and then we would kind of keep trying to rework them because they just didn't sound quite right.
And then we would realize that once we'd stripped them back and made them more ambient
that they actually kind of translated a lot better.
So I didn't feel like we were very limited necessarily because we were kind of down to try anything.
We would have a lot of things that we would fight for that we thought was the right idea.
And I feel like he was similar where he would have ideas that maybe we weren't a big fan
of, but it was a nice kind of give and take between the two of us.
But he, he killed it.
I mean, I know the album wouldn't have come out as cool if we didn't do it with him.
So I'm very thankful.
I'm definitely asking this way far in advance and I'm sure it's not across any of the band
members mind, but you know, working, you know, changing up your style a little bit, working
with new people.
Do you think that this broadened more horizons to experiment with your sound even further
in the future?
Yeah, absolutely.
I think, I think just like the older we've gotten, we've kind of stepped away from heavier
music a little bit.
And so it feels like, like, like when we put out Crooked Soul, it was kind of strategic
because it's still very riffy, but it doesn't have as much screaming.
And so we planned it because we were like, then when we put out, when we put out like
a pop rock track, nobody's going to really flip their lid because that was kind of a
softer transition right off the bat anyway.
So yeah, I think, I think, you know, with like future records, we can kind of let loose
and maybe get a little bit weirder with it.
Interesting.
Now being a vocalist, do you sometimes need to hear music to come up with lyrics or is
there ever a story or a concept in mind that maybe can help determine the outcome of the music?
Uh, I get ideas definitely.
But I really, I need the music to, to write anything to it.
Because sometimes I feel like the music can kind of be a guiding force as to like, you _ _ _ _ _
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