Back to the idea of “skaters, like it, moms like it,” there's something to the idea of nostalgia triggered by music that's so powerful in what you’re doing. It’s another empowering element. Just like scents, and how they recall memories, music can do the same. Whether the nostalgia is for a time you yourself experienced and it takes you back, or new, imagined nostalgia that transports you in some way. Whether we hear that energy related to skating, or musical references our ears pull out of one of your tracks that’s reminiscent of a time and place and another generation, it's all evoking emotion and creating an experience.
AH— I think that's a really good point. Pre-internet, if you wanted to listen to Black Sabbath, you would have a physical old record and you knew it was old— but the way that music is consumed now with streaming, where you have this massive catalog of music, if you're a young person, you don't know when something was made. Everything is kind of new in that sense, so listening to music now, when we reference older stuff, it's not necessarily because we love the 80s or whatever. It could be new to me, even though it was released a long time ago. We’re approaching it as if it was released today. I feel like some bands that have references to nostalgic music, they really try and present themselves and they want to be in it.
Well, it's easy to get corny. It's really easy for it to be corny.
AH— Yeah. It's like, "I'm from the 50s." Authentically down to the underwear.
SR— Deadstock underwear. High and tight.
AH— “I am from the 50s. Everything down to what I eat. I only eat homegrown beans. I don't know. Gravy. Biscuits and gravy.”
SR— Yeah. I think a lot of people tend to put us in categories of eagles.
AH— Lasers.
SR— Yeah, and we're like, "Huh?"
AH— Rad. Rad 80s, but we've never wanted to be an 80s band. It's just, Yeah. A lot of the shit that I like from the 80s, that's when synthesizers were really being explored and high energy dance music was being invented, and I just think it's so sick to think about the fact that disco and rock fans back in the day hated each other, and it's like, "Oh, so that's why that music never got mixed together," because it was like, "Fuck you if you like that." So, all right, let's mix it.