There's always more happening than meets the eye.
Despite the immediate viral success of breakout single 'I'm going to tell my therapist on you', stateside tours alongside cult heroes and a career-highlight trip across the pond to the UK, Baltimore newcomers Pinkshift have already stared down a potentially devastating road..
"Myron [Houngbedji] was one foot in, one foot out for a whole year," vocalist Ashrita Kumar recalls, looking back at a time that could have spelled the end for the band. Their drummer had just been offered a place at medical school, ready to continue the path that had been laid out before him prior to the band's takeoff.
The band themselves were in the studio with Will Yip, the producer responsible for countless iconic alternative standouts, when he received the call.
"There was a lot of cognitive dissonance that made it all really difficult," Myron recounts.
"A lot of back and forth in my head..." The offer had reignited a longstanding battle between expectation and the unknown, one that isn't unique to just Myron.
"All of our parents immigrated here to the US with specific expectations of what their children would do," he explains. "There's a lot of pressure for us to be successful, because if we're not then our parents did that for nothing."
His indecision inadvertently mirrored a battle faced by his bandmates Ashrita and Paul [Vallejo, guitar], but his ultimate decision to go all-in on Pinkshift opened up new horizons.
"It's given us a chance to explore living outside of the system. We've gotten off the train," he smiles.
"Having to deal with that mentally is hard but liberating. We've all experienced points where we've felt terrible because the system was all we knew, and now we have a lack of structure; nothing is laid out for us anymore. It now actually takes a lot more critical thought in terms of what we want to do and achieve..."
Bu hikaye Rock Sound dergisinin November 2022 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Giriş Yap
Bu hikaye Rock Sound dergisinin November 2022 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Giriş Yap
LIGHTS ON
IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WAIT, BUT ONE OK ROCK ARE WELL AND TRULY BACK WITH 'LUXURY DISEASE'. IN THIS BRAND NEW, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, TAKA MORIUCHI WALKS US THROUGH THE JOURNEY HE AND HIS BAND TOOK TO WEATHER THE PANDEMIC, CREATE ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS OF THEIR CAREER, AND TAKE ON AMERICA ONCE AGAIN. THIS IS THE STORY OF AN ERA.
THE FIRST...YOUNG CULTURE
ALEX AND GABE WALK US THROUGH THEIR BAND'S BABY STEPS.
TREY MILLER
CHERIE AMOUR | TREY WALKS US THROUGH THE TO-DO LIST.
PERFECT TEN
10 NEW RELEASES YOU NEED TO HEAR
GET BACK
RETURNING TO THE ROOTS OF WHY THEY LOVE ALL OF THIS SO MUCH, THIS IS HOW TURNOVER SET ABOUT CRAFTING THEIR LATEST COLLECTION OF STUNNING ALTERNATIVE BANGERS...
HELL ABOVE
FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING TIMES, FIT FOR A KING HAVE CREATED AN ALBUM THAT AS HEART-WRENCHING AS IT IS VITAL. HERE, RYAN KIRBY TALKS US THROUGH HOW HE MADE SENSE OF IT ALL...
TO LOVE AND TO LOSE
THROUGH THE BEST AND WORST DAYS OF HIS LIFE, RORY RODRIGUEZ HAS CRAFTED SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SONGS OF DAYSEEKER'S CAREER SO FAR. THIS IS HOW HE MANAGED IT...
BREAKING THROUGH
EIGHT BANDS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH
HOLY FAWN
BREAKOUT NEW MUSIC FIRST | MURKY, ETHEREAL BRILLIANCE FROM PHOENIX.
FITTING IN
DE'WAYNE IS BACK WITH A MORE FOCUSED, REFINED FOLLOW-UP TO HIS BRILLIANT DEBUT. IN THOSE FAVOURITE BLUE JEANS...