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MisterWives’ Mandy Lee and Etienne Bowler focus on their band’s breathtaking fourth album ‘Nosebleeds’ and the significance of feeling all the sentiments and giving your self grace.
Stream: ‘Nosebleeds’ – MisterWives
We’re taught that happiness and pleasure are good and anger, disappointment and melancholy are dangerous. I feel it’s simply the complete spectrum of what our expertise is and it’s about reclaiming that versus feeling like one is sweet and one is dangerous. They’re all regular, pure responses to life.
When I requested MisterWives what led to the creation of Nosebleeds, with its distinct fiery sound and breathtakingly uncooked lyrics, they earnestly responded, “It was simply how we have been feeling.”
It appears so easy, however the reply to that query is strictly what makes this band so particular, and extra particularly, this album. Launched on July 14 through Picture End Data / Resilient Little Data, Nosebleeds sees MisterWives faucet into one thing completely new, whereas additionally pulling extra from their roots than we’ve heard in albums previous.
Following 2020’s acclaimed LP SUPERBLOOM – which Atwood Journal known as “explosive supply of funk, rock, pop, and soul that can break your coronary heart and put it again collectively once more” – Nosebleeds is rock & roll, infectious, intricate, delicate, and delightful. It’s as therapeutic as it’s entertaining.
I’m not okay, however I’m comfortable with that. It’s simply how life goes. I really feel like we have to give ourselves extra grace in the direction of not having to have all of it collectively and never having to at all times discover the expansion – it’s not sustainable or sensible. It’s vital to really feel at peace with life and discover consolation within the discomfort.
Atwood Journal sat down with MisterWives’ lead singer Mandy Lee and drummer/producer Etienne Bowler for a deep dive into Nosebleeds and the way the band created this uncooked, stunning document. They clarify with such readability and freedom that Nosebleeds was them letting go of all business requirements and objectives, and easily creating one thing that felt good and proper to them.
By doing simply that, they managed to create an album that’s getting constant radio play in addition to playlisting throughout the board. The music that usually connects most is music that’s the most genuine and trustworthy, and Nosebleeds is among the most refreshingly trustworthy albums we’ve heard in a very long time.
Get pleasure from our dialog with MisterWives on all issues Nosebleeds and the significance of feeling all the sentiments and giving your self grace.
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A CONVERSATION WITH MISTERWIVES
Atwood Journal: Congratulations on the album! It’s so unbelievable. There are just a few very thrilling issues with the Nosebleeds launch. First, that is the primary album you’ve launched underneath Resilient Little Data, and second, you’ve been capable of get pleasure from this launch out on the planet with the followers whereas SUPERBLOOM was a deep COVID launch. How has all of it been?
Mandy Lee: Thanks! Oh my god it has been probably the most refreshing expertise – attending to do all of the stuff with actual individuals. I’ve had the largest smile on my face attending to do these album launch reveals and signings. We did a popup at a donut store the place they made a Nosebleeds donut – all of the enjoyable issues the place you get to rejoice with individuals and join in particular person. I’m not a cellphone girlie in anyway so this has been my prime time.
The whole lot we’re doing now – It’s all of the stuff that reminds you why you do it. There may be a lot exhausting work that goes into attending to the ultimate launch. It’s such an emotional rollercoaster after which when it comes out and also you get to really play a present and listen to individuals singing the songs again with you. It’s what at all times retains us going.
Etienne Bowler: With SUPERBLOOM too, once we lastly acquired to tour it – it felt like we have been taking part in previous songs. Now, we get to go on tour proper after Nosebleeds comes out. We’re so excited to program the set and play the songs. All of it feels model new and thrilling.
Completely. The intimate reveals you guys have been taking part in appear so nice.
Mandy: Thanks! And so they’re acoustic! I’m like if that is this a lot enjoyable acoustic I can’t watch for what a correct present goes to be. The vitality was so excessive and everybody was singing all the pieces so loud. And this was us with a stripped down efficiency. We’re very excited for the autumn.
Etienne: We’d must do an acoustic tour!
Do it! So, I need to dive into just a few songs particularly, however first I need to discuss in regards to the total sound of the album. It has such a Rock and Roll really feel, but it surely’s nonetheless MisterWives. It’s elevated and totally different and distinct. I find it irresistible a lot. Interested by what led to the general sound of the document. The place was the departure from songs like “Simple” and “Wrongside” into Nosebleeds?
Mandy: The departure was the feelings. (all of us snigger)
There was no aware determination of going darker or including extra distorted guitars or something like that. It was simply actually staying true to how I felt and never doing the basic MisterWives factor of sugar coating actually exhausting occasions. We nonetheless love that for us typically, you want it to get by, however I simply felt like doing that for this document was a disservice to the place I used to be. I felt very uncooked and open, and I wished the music to mirror the place I used to be, somewhat than attempting to race in the direction of the silver lining of all the pieces being packaged fairly and cleaned up good for individuals to digest.
That’s what I really like about this album – it provides you permission to be offended.
Mandy: Sure, the entire feelings are okay. We’re taught that happiness and pleasure are good and anger, disappointment and melancholy are dangerous. I feel it’s simply the complete spectrum of what our expertise is and it’s about reclaiming that versus feeling like one is sweet and one is dangerous. They’re all regular, pure responses to life.
Etienne: Yeah, they each must exist. And if you happen to say you’re at all times glad you’re mendacity to your self as a result of you may’t have one with out the opposite. Like Mandy is saying, “Superbloom” and “Resolve to be glad” are the afterthoughts of going by one thing exhausting, however then being okay. Nosebleeds is what’s occurring if you’re in it. Musically, it wasn’t a call of any type of “let’s do that, let’s try this” the manufacturing and the music at all times comply with the lyrics in order that’s the place all of it got here from. They work collectively.
Mandy: I’ll say too, shoutout to my neighbors. There’s a band that rehearses each Saturday. They’re younger women and each Saturday they might play Rubbish, Alanis Morisette, Little doubt, and many others. all these songs and bands that I grew up loving. It completely permeated into what I used to be writing and the sounds I wished. I wished it to sound extra natural and uncooked and never as polished pop as we’ve executed prior. I must carry them a document. I reference them in “All of the Similar” – I need to thank them for uplifting me.
*Shout out to the neighbors!*
I felt very uncooked and open, and I wished the music to mirror the place I used to be, somewhat than attempting to race in the direction of the silver lining of all the pieces being packaged fairly and cleaned up good for individuals to digest.
That’s wonderful. They’d love that a lot. So, we are able to’t speak about Nosebleeds, the album, with out speaking in regards to the success of the track “Nosebleeds.” Clearly, you made it a single, so that you knew it was one thing particular, however have been you anticipating this a lot success with it?
Mandy: Man, at the beginning in all probability not. I did it with Dylan Bauld from Flor and Okay.flay, who I really like and are pricey, pricey associates. I used to be in such a darkish place once we have been engaged on it. I keep in mind coming house from the session and I couldn’t inform if it was good as a result of I used to be simply so uncooked. I used to be recording these vocals attempting to not cry so it’s wild to see the journey of it and the way a lot it developed. It grew to become the entire spine to the document and impressed the album title. For this reason it’s at all times good to maintain going. I virtually threw within the towel on that track after which revisited it a 12 months later and I used to be like “What the fuck was I pondering! This track is wonderful!”
Etienne: Yeah, I listened to her demo and was like that is unbelievable you completely want to complete this.
Mandy: So I’d say within the begin, in all probability not, however then once we got here to revisit the track I knew it needed to be the one. It’s the entire crux of the document and to see what it’s executed proper now has simply been, truthfully, exhausting to course of. It’s been so joyous and such an enormous success for us. Radio is one thing that at the beginning of this document I gave up on. I let go of radio or any of the business success goalposts. I didn’t care. I simply wished to make one thing that was true to me, that we cherished and had enjoyable making. These have been the priorities. I actually keep in mind saying “I don’t care about radio – I’m good on that. I don’t want it.” And now it’s on the radio.
Etienne: Whenever you cease in search of it, you discover it. That’s the way it works.
Mandy: It was the white knuckling, ya know? Whenever you go into issues and you’ve got all these preconceived plans of the way you need it to go after which it by no means does. This time round I discovered my lesson. With SUPERBLOOM I had such massive desires that for probably the most half acquired squashed, exterior of what the followers did for it. This time round I simply wished to make one thing that felt good and was trustworthy. I wished to overlook about the entire objectives that you simply get caught in a hamster wheel chasing as a band.
Completely. It actually comes by within the album that you simply did it for you. I feel that’s why it’s so nice and is resonating a lot. I need to speak about “Sideways,” which can also be beginning to achieve some traction within the playlisting world!
Etienne: Spotify likes “Sideways”!
Sure, it’s so catchy from the primary second.
Mandy: Sure! I’m a ticking, ticking time bomb.
Sure! So, inform me about this one, from the lyrics to the manufacturing it’s so nice.
Mandy: Etienne slayed the manufacturing on this one.
Etienne: Thanks! I had the chance to work off some stems from a session that Mandy began with Cal Shapiro and Louis Schoorl.
Mandy: Who I did “Rock Backside” with – this album was all working with associates. With “Sideways” I knew it was going to be a great time even when we didn’t come away with a track. That instantly alleviates the stress.
Etienne: Yeah, so I acquired a few of these stems and I chopped it up and reworked a pair issues. I really did it on my laptop computer in New York out of my previous bed room. My mother and father have been listening they usually have been like “This can be a massive track you gotta end this!” Mandy came visiting the following day and we completed it collectively. We arrange a netflix hearth factor. The xmas log factor? We arrange the hearth on the TV – we made hearth so we may make hearth.
(All of us snigger.)
However no, I heard the demo and I knew we needed to end the track. It’s extremely catchy. And it has that classic MisterWives sound that was vital to seize on the document.
Mandy: And humorous, that one too took so many turns. I really feel like for these songs – each track we exhausted all of the concepts. We went so far as we may after which we have been like okay yeah no the primary one was higher.
Etienne: There was about seven or eight days of “Sideways.”
Wow, yeah so how does that every one usually go? You begin a track and the way lengthy is the method to complete usually – or is all of it totally different?
Mandy: All of it relies upon, however I really feel like for this album particularly we had the perspective of actually attempting to put all of the concepts down and in the event that they didn’t work we might return to the unique one, however we let ourselves no less than strive. And for “Sideways” I keep in mind I wrote a bridge after which it felt like we didn’t want it. I used to be so caught on the truth that it was such a brief track. I used to be like “It’s too quick! We want a bridge!” I nonetheless am one of many uncommon individuals who believes in bridges. I really feel like they’re a dying breed, but it surely simply didn’t really feel proper within the track.
After which Etienne and the drop out – we acquired into it for the primary drop out. He didn’t need the drop out, however I used to be prefer it wants that epic drop out second the place we’re going to listen to the gang sing it again and the music pulls on the market.
(Observe to followers: be able to sing it on the drop out!)
Etienne: I really feel like we met within the center. We each had totally different concepts for what we wished to strive on this track. We tried all the pieces. We put loads of days of labor into it and now I can’t unhear it this manner. I’m glad we did it precisely how we did it.
It’s precisely appropriately.
Mandy: And then you definitely’re not left questioning if it ought to be one thing else that you simply by no means tried. We didn’t need to have that remorse so we gave ourselves permission to be as neurotic as attainable on what we wished to attempt to if we couldn’t beat it – Etienne didn’t love this half.
(laughter)
Etienne: To a degree. If after 7 days you’re nonetheless attempting issues – It’s a 7 day coverage right here at Etienne’s recording studio.
Nicely it did repay. It’s an ideal track. Talking of the OG MisterWives sound, “Journey Across the Solar” is one I really like a lot and it does have that “basic” MisterWives really feel. I really like the guitar lick at first and the way it begins simply with that and vocals after which type of explodes. Inform me about this one.
Mandy: This one began with Cal too. A number of these songs have been child concepts that have been in demo phases and if it was an ear worm and it stayed caught in my head I knew we needed to see it by. Then Etienne would are available and assist with the manufacturing. “Journey Across the Solar” was a enjoyable one among simply being actually playful. I really like how the track begins mushy after which it’s this massive explosion of all of the band taking part in. I do that rhythmic singing, not beatboxing, however type of me verbally singing the drum beat. I cherished being actually playful with it and exhibiting the highs and lows by the music, which felt like what that track is. The acceptance of “one other journey across the solar, I’m nonetheless coming undone” that’s actually unhappy. It’s about rising and studying however nonetheless feeling such as you hold unraveling. It’s two steps ahead and one step again, and that’s type of simply the method of life. It’s making peace with it not being not linear.
I keep in mind Etienne listening to that track and he stated it made him cry. The primary time he heard this one and “Vagabond” have been the one two that made him cry. And he doesn’t cry.
Etienne: I don’t cry fairly often so if I hear a track and I begin to cry it’s often a great signal. Any of the demos I heard although, any probability that I needed to work on them, I instantly would.
It’s two steps ahead and one step again, and that’s type of simply the method of life. It’s making peace with it not being not linear.
Sure, and that track goes with all the pieces, it’s okay to not really feel such as you’re getting higher with annually.
Mandy: You’re nonetheless rising although! On the finish of it when it says “I’m okay” – like I’m not okay, however I’m comfortable with that. It’s simply how life goes. I really feel like we have to give ourselves extra grace in the direction of not having to have all of it collectively and never having to at all times discover the expansion – it’s not sustainable or sensible. Social media actually performs into how we predict life is meant to be vs. the way it really is. It’s vital to really feel at peace with life and discover consolation within the discomfort, I suppose.
I really like that. I feel that’s an excellent segue into probably my favourite MisterWives lyric of the album and perhaps of all time. In “Silver Lining” if you say, “Attempt to discover silver traces, Inform everybody you’re fin , however you don’t know anybody who’s.” That’s the one which made me cry! It’s so true although; nobody is de facto okay.
Mandy: If it makes you are feeling higher I cried whereas making all of the songs. However sure – and that is the silver lining. That is one other one which has an extended model.
Etienne: There was a second verse and one other spherical of refrain however we reduce it.
Mandy: It felt extra like an interlude.
I would like to listen to the complete model! However I agree – It’s an ideal A-side to B-side transition.
(The pair tease that we could possibly hear an extended model of “Silver Lining” on the deluxe launch of Nosebleeds.)
The ultimate track I need to ask about is “Ultraviolet.” It’s such a fantastic be aware to finish the album on. It’s clearly such a uncooked and susceptible track. I’m curious if if you wrote this track you knew it could be the nearer or how that every one got here to be?
Mandy: At first we have been speaking about it opening the document, however that felt unsuitable. We needed to are available scorching with the craze after which work by all the craze to search out this place of content material. I feel “Ultraviolet” is accepting the exhausting occasions and staying mushy in these exhausting moments. It’s heavy and it’s delicate and it’s studying that it’s okay that it’s each. It’s not “I’ve to remain offended at these horrible issues” or “I’ve to search out the optimistic.” I’m simply floating in-between all of the extremes, and the earlier I make peace with that, the much less resistance I’ve in my physique and thoughts of how exhausting life has been.
I really feel actually grateful – I did that one with Jason Suwito from Sir Sly and Sean Van Fleet who did just a few songs on this document. It’s uncommon in a session the place you may go in and never really feel the necessity to make the contrived “single”. Periods will be actually out and in and also you’re attempting to write down successful in a day – you’re not going to return in and be like “Hey I need to write a track that hardly has a refrain and is only a stream of consciousness.”
Etienne: With a 30 second outro…
Mandy: Sure, a 30 second outro and is a sluggish ballad. However they have been the individuals to do this with. We did “Finish of my rope” with them as properly the place there have been simply no guidelines. We have been capable of simply make what felt proper, which speaks volumes to who they’re. I felt so snug speaking about issues that have been actually susceptible.
I’ve by no means brazenly talked about being emancipated, which I do within the second verse. It’s 15 years later, nonetheless attempting to forgive from the place I used to be at 15 — emancipated and leaving house to pursue music. It’s loads of painful components of my life that I’ve at all times suppressed. Whenever you let that stuff floor you simply discover such freedom in your existence. There isn’t a disgrace and guilt in regards to the stuff you’ve gone by. Discovering the sunshine within the darkness.
For that track I really discovered these photographs on-line of flowers underneath ultraviolet gentle. I saved them in my notes. They have been illuminated – it seemed prefer it was made in photoshop. All these glittering patterns and all the colours grew to become electrical. That felt like such a great visible that I wished to place right into a track. Solely in full darkness may you see all this gentle. It felt like loads of what my expertise is of how a lot good I’ve discovered by the actually darkish and tough occasions.
I’m simply floating in-between all of the extremes, and the earlier I make peace with that, the much less resistance I’ve in my physique and thoughts of how exhausting life has been.
I really like that a lot. And realizing that brings it that rather more which means. I’m going to allow you to guys go however earlier than I do – Tour is coming! What are you most excited for?
Mandy: The whole lot! We’re really doing a day tomorrow the place we need to brainstorm all of the moments of the set and what we need to carry to life. This complete month will likely be placing the present collectively. We are able to’t watch for neighborhood and to sing these songs with individuals – that’s at all times the most effective half. We simply need to carry a present to individuals that’s pure escapism and enjoyable from the loopy world that we’re all dwelling in – so I’m trying ahead to that.
Etienne: We have now to determine a option to play each single track indirectly form or kind and we solely have 70 minutes.
Mandy: I’m not trying ahead to attempting to curate a setlist, I’ll say that. It’s exhausting! We have now so many songs now. We speak about desirous to do a present at some point the place every night time is a special album and we play it in its entirety and create totally different units for every document – type of what we did for the stay stream for SUPERBLOOM, however in particular person.
Signal me up! I am coming to that.
We simply need to carry a present to individuals that’s pure escapism and enjoyable from the loopy world that we’re all dwelling in – so I’m trying ahead to that.
We say our thanks’s and goodbyes, and the band is over complimentary of the help Atwood has proven them all through their profession. We clarify that they’ve made it extremely straightforward with the music they’ve introduced into the world.
If there’s one factor we all know in full certainty, it’s that MisterWives by no means disappoint of their stay present, and these new songs are begging to be sung collectively on the high of all our lungs. Make sure you catch them at an upcoming live performance; the Don’t Look Down tour,their coheadlining tour with Bishop Briggs, begins September 8th and runs by mid-October!
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