Honeypot was very abstract-I had a lot of trouble writing about anything to do with myself, my life, people I know, or stories that wasn’t filtered through some kind of weird, irreverent obfuscation.
SR: That is maybe the key difference, or what I consider a victory for Lifetime over Honeypot, no matter what. With getting married and all the events that have influenced you as an individual in the past year, I imagine those influenced the songwriting on Lifetime. Honeypot’s lyrics seem more abstract than Lifetime, which seems more intimate and interpersonal.
Teen suicide band twitter update#
SR: There was some change-I didn’t think a whole lot about it, I guess, because with Honeypot I was thinking way too much about where are we as a band, what do people expect of us, what do people not want from us, what makes me the most mad that I have to do? Just like a constant whirlwind, swirling around in my head.įor Lifetime, it was purely about writing an album that was only what I liked and what we would want to release if we changed our name, which was a maybe at that point-how would we re-introduce ourselves, how would we dive into our past and update it, how would we rewrite our old albums that people seem to like the most, what would those sound like if we wrote them now at 26 or 27, with the knowledge of the world we have, and how we’ve changed as people? Knowing Honeypot would be the final record under that name-did that affect how you approached the writing and recording of A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This? Your previous album, It’s The Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot, was the last one you recorded under the Teen Suicide moniker. SR: Exactly-there’s a statement there or something. It’s funny you’re able to get rid of the old band name, but you can’t change your Twitter handle. Of all the things to be stuck with, I’m very fine with it. The thing was just a dumb joke that we thought we’d probably end up changing soon after, but then we got verified and are now stuck with it. We had a good big laugh about it one day over dinner. But Brendan Canty, who I would play football in the park with him in DC when I was like five or four, told me in an email that he was gonna start a Twitter impersonating me and call his band-and this was one of those good dad jokes-Adult Homicide. Not Ian -I don’t know how he feels about it. A couple of the Fugazi fellows are old family friends-we didn’t exactly ask them their permission to do that or anything, but once we did do it and it got verified, my uncle let them know and they thought it was very funny.
We caught up with the Maryland-based polymath to discuss the experiences that inform his most recent release, getting married, and being dumb on Twitter.Ī Whole Fucking Lifetime of This is available now via bandcamp.ĪdHoc: A lot of people ask you about the nomenclature of the different projects you’re involved in, but I wanted to ask you about your Twitter handle, and why you tweet under that handle. With a new lineup and band name in tow, and after a year of touring in support Teen Suicide’s last formal release, It’s The Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot, Ray frames Lifetime as a radical return to sincerity, breaking from his previous, more sardonic output. This makes sense for someone whose project was formerly known as Teen Suicide - a band name he found regretful and embarrassing, born from his personal brand of dark irony and from an expectation that the project would never blow up. Sam Ray takes his time parsing words when he speaks about his band, American Pleasure Club, and their new record, A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This.
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