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Raspberry Bulbs: "Groping the Angel's Confront" (via SoundCloud)
Raspberry Bulbs frontman Marco del Rio is probably best known nether a darker allonym: He Who Crushes Teeth. For more a decade, he'south gone past the ominous moniker as the drummer and lyricist for California black metal purists Bone Awl. With that knack for rhythm, philosophical writerly approach, and no proper guitar experience whatsoever, his unique skill set has served him well in making the mutant lo-fi raw punk of Raspberry Bulbs, which he began five years ago surrounding a motility to New York City.
Growing from a solo project to a quintet, the band at present scratch and scream while waxing existential and perhaps even getting stuck in your head. In New York, they've played out off-and-on, becoming underground favorites across formidable corners of punk, hardcore, and noise. (The projection's 2011 debut,Nature Tries Again, was released via Hospital Productions, run by Dominick Fernow of Prurient and Vatican Shadow.) And while Raspberry Bulbs exercisenon identify every bit black metal, they practice draw from the genre's atmosphere and grim themes. "When I start writing, I want to exist on that level of thinking," del Rio says, sitting at a bar in Bushwick, "considering the aforementioned things are at stake-- it's kind of a life or death situation."
Considering such quotes, it may be reasonable to assume that a conversation with del Rio and the band's drummer, who goes by Ning Nong, could make a pretension barometer explode. Only while del Rio, a visual artist who too designs all of Raspberry Bulbs' covers, was slightly guarded, he was besides thoughtful and unassuming. And I immediately recognized Ning Nong from his job at Heaven Street, a record shop down the street run by their friend Sean Ragon of Cult of Youth.
Del Rio prefaces our talk by admitting that he and Ning Nong don't know how "these sorts of interviews" work; they've never done one. Just later did he reveal he'd brought along a "crook sail" of talking points, something I'd never expect from a punk ring (many of whom, particularly in the hyper-skeptical NYC scene, may not have agreed to this interview at all). Their inspiration comes from ideas more than sound itself, and inside the artwork for new albumDeformed Worship is a survey of intellectual interests: an image of Einstein sticking his tongue out, along with quotes on art, writing, and isolation by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima, painter Jean Francois Millet, and pop singer Annie Lennox. The embrace is pink.
We spoke near the deformed worship of pop music and America, the essence of black metallic, transcending genre boundaries, pink printer paper, and more.
"Y'all take to treat everything the same mode-- there's not really high and depression fine art. When you are legitimately inspired past something,
it happens regardless of where it's coming from."
Pitchfork: You guys clearly have a strong black metal background, but you've been adament about Raspberry Bulbs not getting pegged as a black metallic band.
Marco del Rio: Musically, in blackness metal, there are a lot of standards and expectations. When you try to be in that world, you lot're trying to satisfy what people need from a black metal band. Then this band is near not having to bargain with the limitations that blazon of situation puts on you-- I don't desire people trying to place it. Coming from blackness metallic has informed the way I write music, but this band is about acknowledging the beingness of those serious, heavy feelings usually found in black metal in other types of music.
Ning Nong: Nosotros place with a quality of lo-fi, atmospheric music beyond genres more we identify with music made under the imprint of black metal, or the banner of raw punk, or the banner of annihilation. You tin can do more genre exercises. One of the nigh important things most this project is that it's expressed in a lo-fi style simply doesn't shy from proper songwriting.
Raspberry Bulbs: "When a Lie Becomes the Truth" (via SoundCloud)
Pitchfork: I was excited to see lyrics from Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" within the album fine art: "Some of them want to employ you/ Some of them want to get used by yous." How does that relate to Raspberry Bulbs?
MDR: It'due south a confusing combination of references [in the album fine art], which is the signal. You have to treat everything the aforementioned style-- there's not really college and lower art. When you lot are legitimately inspired by something, it happens regardless of where it'south coming from. It'due south about consciouslynot adhering to what a genre is supposed to exist. You lot should just let it happen.
That Annie Lennox quote is non underground at all. Regardless, it's totally truthful, and it'due south something I concord with. Information technology's too acknowledging a sort of worship of pop music. There's something that is very heavy and night nigh that quote, and yet it's presented in the well-nigh poppy, radio-friendly manner.
NN: It relates to the projection more than something stylistically might, and it's an important facet of what we're trying to exercise: all of fine art history and history itself is fair game. That'due south where nosotros're coming from-- recognizing ideas over manner or genre.
MDR: A band has the entire earth to work through and decide, "What is information technology that inspires me?" Everybody'due south doing that. It's not like people say, "I only listen tothis." Well, possibly they practise. But my understanding of art or music or anything right now is like: I'll accept any you've got.
Pitchfork: The title of the new LP isPlain-featured Worship. Does that have to do with how you chronicle to the things that influence and inspire you lot?
MDR: It does. It relates to the Annie Lennox quote, as well: Essentially, this is pop music, simply one time information technology gets put through the filter of our band, you get this other ugly, abject thing.
Pitchfork: Your new label Blackest Ever Black has generally released music by night electronic projects. How did you end upward working with them?
NN: We plant information technology more appealing to work with them than to effort fitting into a genre-based label. I of the about interesting things virtually underground or contained music in 2013 is the willingness of labels to sign on with somebody with a personal vision, regardless of genre. Labels are willing to run a risk on things outside of their scope of audio. You can only become so far with a genre-based outlook on music. Whereas with a vision-based outlook, you outset seeing correlations between things like Annie Lennox and metal. And then we can exist on a characterization that's mostly put out things that sound electronic just, in essence, are similar to what we practice; we feel a closer affinity to some of these dark electronic bands than we feel with annihilation in our local punk community.
Pitchfork: There's a very active punk and hardcore scene in New York right now, and most of the bands you guys play with come from at that place and the noise scene. Are you inspired by this surround?
MDR: We don't actually fit in. That'southward understood. But we effort to play with bands we respect, and that tends to be hardcore, metal, or noise bands. That'southward the world we come up from. If nosotros're gonna fit in anywhere, it's going to exist underground. It's a good environment, and the fact that people are motivated and pushing forrard in their own direction is inspiring. But stylistically, I don't detect a lot of the stuff going on in New York right now inspiring.
"You can simply become so far with a genre-based outlook
on music. Whereas with a vision-based outlook, y'all start
seeing correlations betwixt things similar Annie Lennox and metal."
Pitchfork: The words and images on the album tin be abstract and repurpose ambiguous biblical imagery, like "wielding a holy blade" or "Groping the Affections's Face". What do you want to convey with this stuff?
MDR: You hear the title "Groping the Angel's Face" and don't exactly know what it means. That's how I want it to be. The song is near dealing with your ain mortality and constantly being confronted by the idea of dying. "When a Lie Becomes the Truth" is about suicide. In life, y'all're trying to become other things, but yous're not e'er certain if yous get there. Those are ii absolutes nosotros can understand-- being, or non.
Pitchfork: Equally an artist, practise y'all finding yourself by and large wrapping your head effectually the large-picture questions?
MDR: Definitely. Obviously, there are smaller things people deal with everyday: personal problems, relationships, socializing. You can get so defenseless upwards in the minute. But if you have a band and are trying to write songs, you lot tin brand an try to focus on things that are broader and more meaning. You tin have a wider vantage point. I need my band because I demand a moment to try to understand things on a bigger scale.
Pitchfork: The visual element of the band is striking. How did you make up one's mind to make the album cover pink?
MDR: I was spending a lot of time in the copy heart, where at that place's and so many different colors of paper. I found this one shade and wanted to work with it, which is seemingly random, but it was an instinctual allure. Later, you lot're trying to figure out: What did that stand for? What does information technology symbolize in a greater context? What does pink or violet mean? If you recall virtually the spectrum of colors that people see, some are more difficult to register. There'due south the term "ultraviolet," which is the offset of the colour spectrum that you tin't see. So a wavelength of light that'southward invisible is pinkish. It's subconscious beyond. And that has a lot of application to the band-- going subsequently something you don't necessarily sympathise.
Pitchfork: What are you trying to say with the American flag on the cover?
MDR: Information technology's about being inspired by imagery and trying to come to a deeper understanding. Y'all take a basic reaction to something-- "oh my god, I like this"-- simply you have to ask yourself, why? It was an opportunity to think nigh what it ways to be American, which completely informs who I am, what I do, and how I think. Information technology's another fashion that I think of the titlePlain-featured Worship-- I accept no choice, I alive under this system that exists in this land, so I accept to admit it. It's forcing a situation where you accept to confront these things that define your culture. It'south not really something you're asked to do very oft.
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