Keeping Some Dark Secrets

We like  interviews. We like Clash Magazine. We especially like interviews where the questions aren’t all recycled and the interviewer clearly knows about the band. We could go on like this for a long time, but instead you should just head to this link to check out Clash Magazine’s recent interview with Alexei.

Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite:

Did the praise lavished on your debut album take you by surprise?

Yeah I guess, to an extent. We were confident and we knew it was good, but we didn’t expect to get such a good reaction. I don’t know, we’re also cynical enough to know that the music business is more about advertising. We’ve never been that bothered about press, to be honest. It’s reassuring, and it gives us confidence and opens opportunities for us. But at the same time we were doing this for a while without record deals and without any of this. We always enjoyed it, so if it all fell apart tomorrow we would still find a way to do shows.

Didn’t you release a CD-R album years ago?

Yeah! That was mad. We released that ages ago, made about forty copies and then completely forgot about it. Then we looked on the internet and “oh shit, there’s that album!” We write so frequently it’s not that much of an effort to get it out there.

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