I find a lot of joy in paying attention to details.Ĭruz: Five Pebbles is a shoegaze project you have made an EP of, entitled forgetmenot. Especially melody is something that I sit with for a while - it’s one of the biggest criteria for my music. I just play around with things until I like it. Texture is something that I don’t think about too actively. If I don’t feel the melodies, I consider the song scrapped. That’s what I usually need in a song for me to enjoy it if it’s something I make myself. Sputnik: Melody is super important to me. What do you consider about texture and melody when you’re composing a song? What you’ve presented on projects that have followed Come In are much more focused, percussive and experimental. I am in the scene and others are as well, and we’re all influenced by each other.Ĭruz: Your attention to detail in the structure of your work is far beyond many in DIY. I don’t know if I would call it a blueprint, personally. I’m definitely surprised and very humbled by it. Sputnik: I personally hadn’t noticed that people have been influenced by me until I’ve seen it written down, when people have told me or when my friends have pointed it out. ![]() Were you surprised at all by the amount of new music that is seemingly delineated from your music? In a noisy lounge with the blare of punk echoing off the walls, we were able to ask Sputnik about their continued success, influences, progression and perspective on the crazy wave of music they find themselves in, along with the world they inhabit.Ĭruz: The current blueprint for the shape of DIY and DIY noise pop has seemingly used Come In as a blueprint. During their DIY Burning Man 2 appearance alongside Michael Cera Palin and Oolong on their North American tour, Impact 89FM was given the immense privilege of conducting Sputnik’s first face-to-face interview ever. That hard work and attention has materialized Sputnik’s hopes and ambitions, allowing them to tour for the very first time. Swelling into the cultural and technical zeitgeist of emo, their growing acclaim cemented them as a figurehead, proving Come In to truly be the door into the next wave of musical thinking, as prophesied by The Brave Little Abacus. As Sputnik’s output consistently began turning heads in multiple scenes and artistic spaces, they only became more popular among the American underground e-consciousness. In the wake of their online success, they have also dropped several excellent EPs, including the lauded forgetmenot - under the name Five Pebbles - and Weatherglow with Asian Glow. The alias of the semi-anonymous Swedish artist known as Sputnik, they inverted the preconception of emo with 2017’s ambitious and genre-defining “Come In,” completely turning the independent cyberspace on its head with the cathartic, lo-fi and subversive take on a then-tired genre. ![]() Editor’s Note: This interview has been edited for clarity.Īmong the online DIY music scene around the emo genre, few acts have gained as much critical acclaim and notoriety as Weatherday.
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