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Balance and composure postcard2/24/2023 ![]() “I don’t want to sound cocky, but with these shows coming up - it’s the best we’ve ever sounded. The band find themselves in new, refreshed territory and are discovering that it’s pushing them to further their performance. “We were listening to our older stuff trying to figure out what we should play and we were like, ‘Holy shit, this is what we sounded like?!’” When we were doing the setlist for this tour we had to go on to Spotify to find out what songs we had,” Bailey laughs. “It’s kind of weird thing when you go back and listen. They’re are keen to prove their new electronic percussive elements will work onstage, integrating with the rest of their back catalogue. “We could’ve played it safe and sounded like us, but we wanted to do something different and keep it fresh.” “We knew what we were doing, and wanted to put something out there that would kind of show people how far we’d gone in the process of writing this new record,” he elaborates, “we’d put something weird out first and then I think this second single was more towards our roots. In introducing this new development they had to go hard or go home. “I feel like a lot more listeners have open minds and are willing to take in something new, or something that they wouldn’t expect, and take the positive from it, see where we’re coming from.” “There has been a small amount of kids who are like, ‘I’m not feeling this’, but we expected that,” Bailey explains. People can be quick to deride the new or unexpected, but in reality it’s what keeps things exciting - trying to please the masses is an endless task. While this may be the view from the inside, elsewhere it’s slightly different - comments on YouTube for their ‘Postcard’ video read as you’d expect for a shift in sound: “This track is awesome, but I really hope the rest of the album isn't like this,” and: “Am I the only one who thinks this track is garbage? Praying this a one-off…” A lot of the time when people ask me what we sound like, I have no idea what to say.” “It’s hard being so close to something and listening to it to see what it sounds like. “It’s kind of hard for me to notice but it seems a lot of people have recognised that,” he continues from Brooklyn, where the band are currently preparing for their upcoming US tour. ![]() ![]() around their third outing, ‘Light We Made’. Change is a pretty standard talking point for most new releases, but has caused a particular stir for Bailey and co. “At the end of the day everything just boils down to this: it’s the same five people in the same room just getting together, jamming and writing.”īalance and Composure’s Bailey Van Ellis is quick to get stuck into the discussion that’s swarming around his band’s latest evolution. ![]()
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