{"id":4142,"date":"2019-04-02T21:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2019-04-02T21:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:43:44","slug":"interview-remember-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2019\/04\/02\/interview-remember-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Remember Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Reed Romanko<\/em><\/p>\n

WTBU DJ Reed Romanko talked on the phone with Remember Sports’ Carmen Perry about their upcoming album and current tour. Remember Sports plays at ONCE in Somerville on April 8th. Tickets are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reed Romanko: <\/b>Later today, you\u2019ll be playing in Richmond, Virginia for the first performance of this tour. How are you feeling about that?<\/b><\/p>\n

Carmen Perry: Pretty good! We\u2019re on our way there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: So are y\u2019all in the van?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah, that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR<\/b>:<\/span> Alright, so regarding the tour, is there a theme musically for this tour? Something like \u201cWe\u2019re playing mostly <\/b>Slow Buzz<\/i>,<\/b>\u201d or \u201cWe\u2019re doing songs about break-ups,\u201d anything along those lines?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: We don\u2019t usually have, like, a theme, we\u2019re just sorta playing what feels right, I guess we\u2019re playing mostly stuff from our latest album, yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: Okay, that\u2019s good.<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah, and there\u2019s some new stuff that we\u2019re working on too!<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: Oh, that\u2019s exciting! <\/b>So you\u2019re done with the recovery from <\/b>Slow Buzz<\/i><\/b>, and moving onto some, new exciting stuff?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah!<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: So you\u2019re saying we can expect to hear some of that on the tour?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah, we\u2019re gonna play some new stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: That\u2019s wonderful! Is there thematically anywhere you\u2019re going with this new stuff, are you moving into new realm lyrically, musically, or anywhere along those lines?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: It\u2019s kinda of early to say\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: That\u2019s fair.<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: It\u2019s gonna take a little while to see what form our album takes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>In regards your albums, and album art, one thing I find really interesting is that <\/b>Sunchokes<\/i><\/b> and <\/b>All of Something<\/i><\/b> have pictures of people, and then <\/b>Slow Buzz<\/i><\/b> is, I think, a doily on a table cloth, is that right?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: \u00a0I guess you could call it a doily, yeah. Jack\u2019s sister did the artwork, Hannah Washburn, and it\u2019s a Riso print. She works with textiles, yeah, she did that for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: It\u2019s a really nice pattern! I\u2019m just curious, is there any reason, stylistically, you went from people to that?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah, I mean, this was sort of a new lead for us as a band, the album was. The first time being all together in the same city, and not really having the same time constraints that we had with our last stuff. So, yeah guess subconsciously, we wanted to move in a similar direction with the album, which was sort of different for all of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>Speaking of <\/b>Slow Buzz<\/i><\/b>, musically it felt more stylistically varied than your other releases, but still felt very cohesive. With what you\u2019re working on now. you plan to continue to branch out in the future, or hone-in on some elements you\u2019ve laid out already in your previous releases?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: I dunno\u2026 I guess there\u2019s some new directions we took in <\/span>Slow Buzz<\/span><\/i> that it\u2019s sort of already started to feel like we\u2019re already following. I think we like to embrace changing our sound and growing with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: Talking about some of your previous releases, in \u201cTown,\u201d one of my favorite songs off of All of Something<\/em>, Jack, I believe, is on lead vocals, right? <\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Well, he wrote that song…<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: That\u2019ll do it. So it felt natural for him to take the lead there.<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: And my understanding is, with <\/b>Slow Buzz<\/i><\/b>, it was a much more joint effort in song writing, rather than <\/b>All of Something<\/i><\/b> and <\/b>Sunchokes<\/i><\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah, I wrote most of the songs on <\/span>Sunchokes<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>All of Something<\/span><\/i>. Slow Buzz<\/em> was a little bit more collaborative, and that\u2019s something we\u2019ve been trying to work on more and are devoting more time, as a band, to writing and all that stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: Do you think, because it\u2019s more collaborative now in regards to the songwriting component, we might hear more of the voices of your other band members?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: It\u2019s possible!<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: That\u2019s fun! Now, going back to <\/b>Sunchokes<\/i><\/b>, \u201c<\/b>Clean Jeans\u201d <\/b>is one of my favorite songs off the album. It\u2019s such an enjoyable song for me because it\u2019s this catchy, really up beat tune with these scathing lyrics. Is the person the song references an actual person, or is it more of a criticism of a type of person?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Oh, it\u2019s a real person!<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>To me, this is by far your most blatant and obvious F.U. song, so to speak. Is there potential for more of these in the future, or was this a one-time thing?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Um, I don\u2019t know. That song kind of feels like an outlier to me, in terms of what I usually write about. It is a fun one, it felt cathartic. I could do that again, I guess.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>Going back to 2017, Remember Sports collaborated with Pllush to make a split. Do you guys have plans to work with another band in the future to create another split?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: We don\u2019t have plans to do that right now, but we\u2019re open to it. We were really pleased with how that came together with Pllush.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>If you had the opportunity to make a split with any currently active band, which band would you choose?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Ariana Grande.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: Any reason why?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: I really like her.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>Makes sense. So, back in November, Remember Sports had an AudioTree Live Session.<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: Yeah!<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: What was that like as an experience?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: It was really fun! We\u2019ve been AudioTree Fans for a long time, we felt honored to be there, to be asked to be there. It\u2019s always a little nerve wracking getting ready to do a live, video thing, cause there\u2019s a lot more you have to worry about, but it really fun, and I\u2019m glad we got to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>I know for the session, there\u2019s a lot of <\/b>Slow Buzz<\/i><\/b>, and I\u2019d imagine that was to promote the album. Any reason for the other songs you chose?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: No, we just play certain old songs live, so they just felt right.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: Reeling it back in to the tour, are there any places you haven\u2019t visited yet, any places you really happy to go back to?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: On this tour, I think that we haven\u2019t played in Rochester or Albany, yeah, so excited to see what that\u2019s like. There\u2019s a Sub Shop in Amherst, so we got some sandwiches, hopefully. Should be a good time!<\/span><\/p>\n

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RR: <\/b>Any final things you want to let the fans know before the start of the tour?<\/b><\/p>\n

CP: We\u2019re really excited to get to see Joey Nebulous play most of the night with us. They\u2019re a great band. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ve done a lot of touring on the east coast, so I\u2019m excited for people to see them!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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