![]() ![]() The streaming service model of releasing new movies simultaneously in cinemas and on streaming platforms is problematic in my eyes for two primary reasons. However, there was one major flaw with “Luca” that had nothing to do with the movie itself: I watched it alone, in my bed, on my laptop. It is a modern fairy tale with as much heart and insight into the human condition as any Pixar movie, and deserves a spot in the upper echelons of Pixar’s classics. That was a long answer, I'm sorry.Disney Pixar’s movie “Luca,” the tale of a young sea monster who visits an Italian town with his new friend in search of a new life, fires on all cylinders. ![]() That's how the newer EP and newer album songs are sort of bigger in scale and more suited for our 5-piece live show. And we're like, hey, people get really into this - they dance to this - why don't we write more music that's specifically suited to this, be this rock band instead of this electronic duo project. And then when we started playing those songs live, we wanted to give them more energy than just like electronic loops and drums, so we had our friends join us, adding in these big beats, adding in guitar. The recordings were like lo-fi - because of the technology we were using - lo-fi sounding songs, like these little pop songs buried under layers of drums and synth and things that made it sort of dreamy. And then we went to France, and we were writing our first song as Magic Man, and I was like, oh, we can record some vocals into the laptop. Now that I think of it, this was the start of our collaboration as songwriters. It was just so much fun to play, and we were kind of trying to like strike up emotion with just melody and no words. We'd hang out with our friends Brandon and Tyler, a couple guitars, bass, drums, and we would really just try to make the most bombastic, huge-sounding, sad, triumphant rock music - basically often very derivative of Explosions in the Sky. AC: Well, the first band that Sam and I were in that we took seriously was this band in high school that we called Airships. ![]()
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