Unhealthy Omens‘ Noah Sebastian and Poppy have revealed how their collaboration ‘V.A.N’ initially got here collectively.
The observe has simply been named Track Of The 12 months as a part of the Rock Sound Awards difficulty, with the pair discussing their artistic course of in a new joint interview and canopy shoot.
As Noah explains, “Fairly early on, I did the reference vocal for among the elements myself and I needed to make a track the place it felt just like the voice, the vocalist of the track, was AI, or inhuman to a point. It was sort of influenced by that recreation ‘Portal’ and the voice GLaDOS. I had that hook, violence in opposition to nature, I had that as a lyric and it was a melody. It’s rather a lot to interrupt down, however mainly, after I had the supply and the cadence in my head, it appeared like Poppy was simply the plain alternative. With the connection of shared administration, it appeared fairly straightforward to get a sure or no on it shortly, as a result of often with options and collaborations it takes weeks simply to get an electronic mail again from folks you don’t have a reference to. So it was tremendous straightforward as soon as the track had taken form, and the concept was there, to get her to test it out and see if she needed to be part of it.”
Poppy provides “When he despatched the track over, I believed it was actually nice and I keep in mind simply saying, ‘Oh, which half are you going to take?’ and he’s like, ‘Oh, no, that is all you’. I beloved it instantly and I believed it sounded actually enjoyable. And I hoped we might get to do a video for it proper after I heard it, so I’m glad we did.”
“Actually, it didn’t actually take that a lot consideration” she continues. “It simply appeared like an apparent match. I actually respect the band and Noah and what he does. So working collectively was fairly apparent and we meshed very well. Once we have been recording within the session, there was just a little little bit of international territory, as a result of I’m used to often sending vocals over. However we acquired to document collectively, and that’s cool, as a result of Noah particularly knew what he was going for, so it was good to be extra within the second and fingers on in that course of than simply being despatched a track and left to your personal units and work your means by means of it. You need to make certain that everybody’s imaginative and prescient aligns in the long run.”
You may learn the complete interview contained in the 2024 Rock Sound Awards Problem which is accessible to order now, alongside an A4 poster print and double-sided A1 poster, at SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV.
