Check out their take on the UMS experience, support for the local music scene and more below. Matt: Animals. But I would say the way the music came about is we have conflicting styles that work really well together.
Melanie came from a folk background, Ryan came from an alternative background and me and Jeremy came from a lot of emo and punk. The way the music started to form was out of that clashβthis solemn, dark sound that got mixed with the aggressive tones that Jeremy and I put out. We like it that way, and I think a Barn Owl is a good embodiment of that kind of sound. I do like them. I think those are things incorporated into a Barn Owl. Matt: Plus we gotta be hip enough to incorporate the Latin language.
Melanie: Incredibly for me; there are two sides to the same coin. Most of my artwork mentions nature and animals. Untamed versus tamed. And where do we find that balance?
Matt: I would say the music scene has helped a lot. Melanie: Raven and the Writing Desk in an influence. Noah [from Male Blonding] mixed our album, and recorded it and tracked it himself. He did school for music production and we really trust him. Matt: Yeah, and Flaural. They blew my mind.
Kind of like Raven and the Writing Desk, kind of dark, kind of rocky. It was amazing. We had people there, which was huge for us. Matt: And having that many people at 3 Kings was like, wow, and all the feedback we got on Twitter from people that contacted us afterwards. Melanie: It was incredible. We were definitely a little skeptical playing the first slot.
