Feed Me To The Waves

From the city of Västerås in the middle parts of Sweden hails the band “Feed Me To The Waves” which plays intriguing instrumental rock. In late 2019 they released their latest album “Intill” and we sent over some questions to see what the band is up to in 2020.

First of all, how are you doing during these current Corona times?

Considering the circumstances, we're doing fine. It's obviously a tough and weird time for everyone, but as long as we're able to stay healthy we can't complain.
 

Could you tell us why you started the band and which goals you had when you first started out?

In 2014 Tom and Robert, who played in another band at the time, was left musically stranded as their drummer moved out of town. To fill the void they set out to form a new band and after a couple of twists and turns "Feed Me To The Waves" was formed. Our goals back then pretty much consisted of getting together and play music we enjoyed. A lot of time was put into finding ourselves in the sounds and we never had a big focus on reaching out with the music, which was meant for ourselves to be caught in. We eventually decided to share our music and since then we've been busy with song-writing and recording records that capture that feeling of loosing yourself in the sounds.

Your latest album “Intill” was released in late 2019. Why did you name the album “Intill” and how was the recording process for the album?

"Intill" means "besides" or "next to" in Swedish but has a very comforting or intimate timbre in it's voicing. The name was decided very late in the process, just a couple of days before the album was announced. We felt like "Intill" very much captured the way we felt about the music, we felt very close to the songs and what we had achieved with the album. The word felt right in every way and pretty much exactly described our feelings towards the music.

Our previous releases had been affected by a lot issues out of our reach, so we decided early on that "Intill" would be completely DIY, that way we only had ourselves to blame if we weren't happy with the outcome. A lot of time was put into planning the recordings. We did a couple of test recordings of the drums in different rooms and also rerecorded a bunch of guitars just to get the right sound. We used the gear we had laying around and were also lucky enough to get to borrow some analog-gear to capture the essence we wanted out from the recordings. Our goal was to create a dynamic and natural sounding album that moved the listener and the recording process aimed to capture as much of that as possible. 

What do you prefer, to play live or to record in the studio and why so?

Playing live and recording in a studio is pretty much incomparable; both are hugely rewarding but offer very different experiences. If we have to chose, playing live comes out on top as standing on stage and playing songs you love infront of an audience is probably the best feeling in the world, but finishing and releasing an album gives you another view of the music. The experience of recording an album isn't always fun as there's a lot of self consciousness and doubt involved, but when you listen to the end product and feel happy with it it's very rewarding. It also gives you opportunities to reach a wider audience to later play infront of live, so in a way the two things feeds of one another. So yeah, we enjoy doing both things and we're happy to get the opportunities we get to both play live and record our music. 


Have you considered to perhaps include vocals on your songs or do you prefer your music to be purely instrumental?

We've actually never considered adding vocals to our music as we just never felt the need to do it. It never fit the music we've been writing and we wouldn't really get much out of it. Although we're open to using a lot of different instruments to our music, adding lyrics is another deal entirely and for us the thought of it has always felt forced. We often jam a lot while song-writing and as singing never came naturally to any of us it's just not anything we felt the need to include. If we one day have a song with vocals in it it's because we felt that the vocals was essential for the song, and so far we haven't had that realisation. 

Except for having a Bandcamp-page how do you promote your music?

We're pretty bad at everything concerning social media promotion, but we try to stay active on Instagram and Facebook. We're very happy to be a part of dunk!records which helps us a lot with promoting our music, but we're also happy with letting the music speak for itself and make it's way around the post-rock community online. The online post-rock community is amazing and quite unique and we're very happy to be a part of it through the people sharing and caring about our music.   

What do you think of live recordings and have you ever considered to maybe put up your concerts on sites like “Live Music Archive” which has tons of bands that are “Pro-Taping”?

We enjoy to dive in to other bands taped live shows so we would consider ourselves pretty "Pro-Taping". Of course, a taped show will never live up to the actual moment of when it was played live, but listening to live taping is a great compliment for the recorded albums that also gives the listeners opportunities to further dive in to the music. Listening to your own old gigs is a great experience and gives you another view and knowledge of your own songs and musicianship, only good can come out of it. 

The year of 2020 has been different compared to other years because of the Corona-virus spreading across the world. When many concerts has been cancelled or postponed, have you done something else instead to keep the band floating? Have you considered to perhaps perform live online?

As dunk!fest and many other of our planned shows was postponed we've been working on ways to bring our music out digitally. We don't want to spoil it, but we'll announce what we've been up to pretty soon. 

Last question for this time. What plans do you have for the rest of 2020 and what can we expect from the band in 2021?

Our plans for 2020 is to continue writing new music that will someday see the light of day. We're also stoked about playing at dunk!2021 and wherever we can. Due to the circumstances you never know what lies ahead, but hopefully we'll be able to deliver some new music in 2021 as well. 

Many thanks and all the best for 2020!

For more info check:

https://feedmetothewaves.bandcamp.com

www.facebook.com/feedmetothewaves