How have bands like The Decemberists helped inspire you?

Fuzz: I think that’s what we’re hoping to fall into – a band that intrigues people at first and then grows into something more.

Carrie: We don’t mind if people hate it, because if you love or hate, at least you’re feeling something about it.

Fuzz: You can’t be luke warm. It’s gotta be hot or cold. I think it means you’re not making enough of a statement and that’s the thing. You can’t be like, “That might be too weird or too risky or I don’t know.” Then you kinda dumb yourself down and start suffocating your inner voice. We all have that inner voice.

Carrie: If you have that idea and you’re too afraid to execute it and you do something else because you think it might be more safe, then you’re totally missing the point. So we’re kind of like, “We don’t care what happens, we just wanna do this.” So then it started happening and it started doing really well so it was like, “Awesome,” because that’s the way to do it.

Fuzz: I’m excited to see how it plays it because we’ve only been in it for a year and a few months and so far it has gone further in that time than I thought it would.

Yeah it’s good to see how different music is becoming more popular and accessible to more people. Do you think that will help you at all?

Fuzz: Yeah. I mean, you look at this cover right here (pointing at new issue of Relix), you know, Wilco is another one of our favorites. We went to go see them this summer on Coney Island and that was a great show. They’re just one of those groups that’s just really good and not totally like on the pop charts, but a lot of people like them. It’s very accessible.

Carrie: I think pop gets a bad rap a lot of the time and has a bad connotation. You think pop and you think Britney Spears.

Fuzz: The pop music we like is The Beatles or Queen which is a little more unique pop, and it’s very melodic and colorful and sometimes introspective. I mean, those are the bands we cover [Laughs]. But, that is the thing, if you were gonna say, is we’re taking gypsy jazz and combining with that type of pop, the classically influenced very high melodic and imaginative type pop writing that Queen and The Beatles were doing. And that’s really the combination, but we don’t use it because we’re afraid if we say pop, people are gonna think it’s cheesy or something.

Just say that you’re pop music, but not really pop music.

Carrie: Alternative gypsy swing folk not really pop but sort of [Laughs].

Fuzz: Yeah, but pop in the way that this [The Beatles, Queen] is, you know? It’s silly really, and that’s why the whole description thing is kinda crazy. Another description that we’ve used which helps too is, “Gypsy swing meets The Beatles at Tim Burton’s house.” And that kind of sums it up in a couple of words too. That’s kind of what it is also. If you use those music industry standard monikers like alt-gypsy swing, it’s like, “Okay,” but if we wanted to say it another way, that really says it a lot better.

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