![]() ![]() Kendra: Now, I listen to a lot of music doing this – and I gotta say “Inside” is definitely one of the handfuls of new songs I’ve heard this year that I truly love. A lot of emotion goes into our songs, which is why it takes time before we can create another. For me, I see it as an outlet and a way to be vulnerable. I can’t write the kind of songs I want to write every day it takes me a couple of months until I’m ready to write another. Sofia: As we’ve progressed as musicians and people, our creative endeavors have started to take more out of us. So overall, I think it just depends on what’s best for the artist. But now as we continue to experience more things and to grow as humans, our songs strike a nerve that really made us think before releasing them to the rest of the world. Back then when we were releasing more regularly our songs didn’t have as much meaning since we were younger than we are now. Hannah: At the end of the day, I think it all just depends on what these songs that they are releasing truly mean to them. Rushing this would cause us to compromise our creative process. We write new songs when it feels right to do so. ![]() Creating music isn’t something that just happens. At this time we were also coming out of Covid, which made it a bit harder to find inspiration. Kaitlin Cywinski: I think that because releasing music is so vulnerable, artists should be allowed to take their time. At the time, releasing an album per year was the way to go, but with this release, we wanted more time to sit with the songs and send them around to people before releasing, which is working perfectly for this release. Jackie: I believe everything is truly up to the artist and how they feel they can release their craft and truly be proud of it. Do you think artists should allow themselves more time in between creative endeavors? Because some artists will work themselves to death… Kendra: Looking back, you all were dropping a new record annually but then did take that two-year break. Not only have we grown as artists, but we’ve grown as people. I’ve dealt with more, and I need to write about what I deal with. I write songs about harder topics now because life has gotten harder. Sofia Richter: Music is shaped by life experiences, and as we’ve grown and experienced new and difficult things, our songwriting has changed. Ever since then, our writing process has evolved into a more joint effort than it used to be. For example, our song “Mermaid Song” started with Jackie’s entrancing guitar part at the beginning and one day when we were practicing we all joined in and started to experiment more with it. In the past, Sofie or Jackie would come to the band with a song almost fully written and we would each write our own parts from there, but more recently we would have jam sessions where we would all just play together randomly and sometimes those jam sessions turned into songs. Hannah Ricter: Over the past two years we have really learned to collaborate more during the writing process which has helped make our songs more meaningful to each of us. I got a lot more into using pedals, especially experimenting with them in the studio (Jamdek Studio with Doug Malone) which helps heighten the emotion or feeling the listener is experiencing. ![]() As our skill sets individually change, together we can truly flourish which has happened a ton over the past couple years. Jackie Cywinski: Individually, we’ve all improved and grown as musicians – digging into different genres of music such as classical and jazz, and just experimenting more with the sound of our instrument. Kendra: It’s been a couple of years since 2021’s ‘Evolving.’ In that time, how would you say you’ve evolved as an artist? Exciting times for an even more exciting band, and we not only spoke of the thrills that are set to transpire this week, but also how they’ve evolved since their last release, insecurities, self-love, and so much more! Not only are they dropping ‘ Called Upon’ on August 25th, but they’re also playing a record release show for all the hometown fans at Metro the very next day. This is a huge week for Chicago’s Neptune’s Core. ![]()
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