They pitched it to us, and gave us room to contribute ideas. The initial concept came from Alex (lead guitarist/vocalist).
Who created the concept for the video? And what’s the collaboration process like? Your videos for “No Mutuals” are great (love a western moment). It’s important to me to have the freedom to flip flop between having a razor sharp edge and barking at people, and singing my lil heart out on a tenderoni. I think the songs reflect the times and locations that they were written in, so our sound will naturally continue to evolve in that same way. I think our debut record is a natural collection, and I want to be careful not to box us into any one place. Is there a central focus on Fake Fruit, or is every song its own living thing and the record’s just a natural collection? I still love writing at home alone, but I think the majority of our next record will most likely be written collaboratively. But, when we’re all together I can try playing them for the band and they join in and all of the sudden it’s an actual song and not garbage like I assumed. I have this whole graveyard of ideas and half songs that I frankly thought sounded dumb when I wrote them. I think it’s so easy to get stuck in your head when you’re writing a song by yourself at home. The three songs we wrote collaboratively on the record are “No Mutuals,” “Swing and a Miss” and “Milkman.” These were all super fun to make, and sometimes I think I prefer writing in the room with the band. I can see the neon glowing at night from my living room, it’s so perfect.įor this record, I wrote all of the songs (save for three) and brought them to the band to add their parts to, and they’ve all changed slightly with each line up. Fun fact: I actually live in the east bay right by the bowling alley pictured on the LP. Anyway, it just makes sense for us to live close to each other because we love the shit out of each other and she helps me with art direction, music videos, hand painted lettering, outfit consulting, hair cuts literally everything that is cool about me comes from her. I didn’t get homesick for California, but I got homesick for my sister (sappy but true). I came to the Bay area because I had been living far away from my sister for so long.
What landed you in San Francisco? And what about the scene there draws you to it? You’ve been leading Fake Fruit, in one form or another, since 2016. Fake Fruit’s sound is more than your average post-punk dilettantes can produce it is an intimate look into the thought processes of those behind the music. There, she secured a semi-finalized lineup composed of lead guitarist Alex Post, drummer Miles MacDiarmid and a rotating cast of bassists. With much buzz surrounding their self-titled album, which was released by Sonny Smith’s Rocks in Your Head Records.įrontperson Hannah D’Amato originally founded the band five years ago in New York, then moved it to Vancouver, B.C. Bay Area’s Fake Fruit have become one of the most exciting bands in the past few years.
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