Knoxville, Tennessee based experimental psych rock unit Analog Kid recently released a stellar seven track record titled “OURB”.
I caught up with vocalist/guitarist Aiden Lamb to talk about the bands musical history, how they started playing together, the making of the new record and ideas for future projects.
CMM-What was the first music that really made an impact on you all as kids and what artist or band did you all enjoy the most?
Aiden-We were all rock and roll kids pretty much. Led Zeppelin, Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes and the like. I had an old Ipod loaded up with so many rush songs it’s almost all I listened to in middle school into high school on the bus. Now we all have a touch of a different taste from one another but we all love music for music now so we can get down with anything.
CMM-How did the band get together and start writing songs and developing your sound?
Aiden-I’ve always been into recording and have wanted to make albums and so some of the first experiences with the band was in a little studio I had setup in a spare room in the back of an old house I was living in. Put amps in my bedroom to keep isolation and all that. And we just almost immediately started recording everything we did. Every jam and every song we played got cut. It was something fun but also probably a bit over complicated but what isn’t with music haha. But at the beginning, the jams were just immaculate, noting any of us had ever really gone so deep into before. We could definitely tell there was a connection there.
CMM-The group recently released a record called “OURB”. What was the writing and recording process like and were there any particular pieces of gear you all used to get the sound you all were looking for?
Aiden-The OURB project has been going for a while. More than a year certainly. Some of these songs, like Yesterday I thought I was a Baby, Back Inside and Fried, are what started the band. They were some new demos I was working on just dubbing on top of myself and experimenting with new musical identities and when I met the boys they really started coming to life.
It did take a while for our sound to develop enough to want to put it into the world. Playing shows and recording in different places and having different attitudes all change the feelings of music so we just kept trying to find a match for what we wanted for these songs.
Id say for gear, one thing that was really inspiring to me was this old Realistic cassette recorder that you could plug a guitar into the Mic jack and it would just distort your guitar to the sun and back. That is featured on Fried and Unmoving.
CMM-If the band could do a score for any film director, who would it be and what would the film be about?
Aiden-One of our favorite movies is this crazy one from back in the 70s called The Holy Mountain, directed by Alejandro Jodorowski. It’s so abstract as a story but has some real deep themes and imagery that would be really something to sink our teeth into. We have certainly talked about wanting to do film scoring as a musical/artistic endeavor. Sometimes when we get real weird, we like to think about making a score for a film that’s yet to be made.
CMM-What’s the band got coming up?
Aiden-We do have ideas for upcoming projects. We’re always making crazy stuff in the studio. We all live together and have a home studio so that definitely keeps it pretty busy usually. We have a lot of back log, even back to the beginnings of us playing together.
Another project we have circling is trying to film music videos in crazy places. Middle of the forest and tops of mountains and such. We filmed at the base of a windmill in Oklahoma once, so definitely some adventurous stuff is on the horizon.
