Interview: Vogue Villains Discuss Their Sophomore EP "Subglorious Songs For Subpar People"
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“As a band we pride ourselves on never being locked into anything. We write what we have passion for and whatever comes out no matter what genre or vibe, always feels VV”
You've probably been asked a million times already, but how did the band form and where did the name Vogue Villains originate?
Vogue Villains started through the destruction of another band that ultimately lead to a wonderful collaboration between Lucas and Andrew. We'd been friends for years, enjoyed each others music but never had the right timing to do anything legitimate together. Once we got down to work it was like capturing lightning in a bottle, how could we have known each other for so long and not realized what the potential was!?
So from there we started writing and preforming while we CONSTANTLY searched for a name to call our new project. We both liked names that had the same letters in them and that looked cool on paper so we had that to start with, after talking about other words we liked eventually the word "villains" become pretty relatable to how people were treating us and each other and it just came to narrowing down that first word.
It seemed to us that making someone else the villain in your own narrative was pretty popular as well, so we settled on Vogue Villains because, I guess being the bad guy is just in fashion these days.
Congratulations on the completion and release of your sophomore EP "Subglorious Songs For Subpar People". Describe the band's creative process for the development of the EP's six songs and what it was like working with producer Tony Sharkey.
These are a mix of songs written before, during and after the release of our first EP "HAPPY." which was released in February of 2019. Songs like "So You Say", "The Arsonist & Gasolina" and "New Striped Coat" were being preformed already at the time though they have gone through changes here and there since, while "No Matter", "Subglorious" and "Let The Wrong One In" were all written just after the release and we took them on tour with us to test them out.
We also originally started working on this album before Rob had replaced our previous keys and ax man Nic, so lucky for us he jumped on to the project midway and spiced EVERYTHING up and help make it the album it is today!
Were there songs that you guys recorded for the EP that did not make the final track list? If so, why did they not make it?
There were other songs written at the time and one that almost made it on I believe called "Tell Me What You Are" but ultimately we decided that it worked better with some other songs we had planned for a future release and that we would keep it in our pocket a little longer. Fingers crossed you will hear it soon!
The EP's cover artwork is creepy and unforgettable, in the best way possible. Who did the artwork and what does it represent?
@gohomejerome on instagram did the artwork! We were just looking through artists that we liked online and came upon him. His stuff is unreal, so creepy and beautiful. We knew what we wanted it to look like and he was extremely helpful throughout the whole process, he brought the dead to life so to speak!
I believe the idea was to show what perfect people really look like on the inside and if that's what perfection is, we would rather be subglorious.
With the EP and new music video for "Subglorious" both released, what are some of the band's goals musically for the remainder of 2020?
2020 was supposed to be another tour, lots of shows to get our music into more ears and to continue writing the next songs but with the pandemic we were left with only writing to do, so instead we changed gears and started working on what comes next.
There will be more music videos coming and you might say writing is going, very well.
If you had to pick one song from the new EP as the most representative of who Vogue Villains is as a band, which song would you select?
That is a tough question. As a band we pride ourselves on never being locked into anything. We write what we have passion for and whatever comes out no matter what genre or vibe, always feels VV. So when we put this group of songs together we were all about taking different facets of our sound and intertwining them into a more rich and in depth feeling journey, despite being only a handful of songs. So to be honest, we couldn't choose one, they really are different Villains for different moments.
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