Name 3 Songs: When I was listening to I Don’t Do Humidity, I got this feeling where I could take the lyrics away and I still feel the emotions, and vice versa. Both stand alone, but then they come together to make the story feel more whole. Was this something that was intentional and does the sound design approach contribute to that? 

Bailey Crone: That is like the best compliment. Thank you. And an awesome question, too. 

Damon Moon: Yeah. I think that in Bailey’s writing, she’s so intentional with emotions and chord structures. We talk a lot about the intention when we’re writing, even chord progressions and trying to assign these emotions – like, we want something to feel longing. So we know it’s going to be this voicing or this chord degree or whatever, you know? 

And with sound design, we try to use it to emphasize those things. Like you were saying without the lyric, if we can get those emotions across still, that’s like the ultimate goal.

In recording  I Don’t Do Humidity, you spent a lot of time thinking about your vocal performance and getting the vocals to sound right. So for you as an artist, is it important to challenge yourself in the process of making music?

Bailey Crone: Yeah, yes, definitely. 

Damon Moon: I feel like, if we’re not [challenging ourselves] then what’s the point? Not to the point where it’s a detriment to the song, but I think it’s super important to challenge and just see what we can pull off, what we can do musically. I think some of the writing on this record, there were challenges that were sort of self -inflicted in the writing process. I think that this is gonna be a really hard song to write, but I think that if you’re comfortable, then you need to write it. It was challenging on all levels. 

Bailey Crone: Sometimes I would get mad at myself for having written such a challenging song at home. I demoed it and we’re here and we just postpone doing the vocals. And we put it on this pedestal – like we have to have healthy vocals when we record this, we have to be in a good mood. We have to have energy. We need caffeine. We need X, Y and Z. We need to align the stars and I don’t need to be on my period. And then we can tackle this and then I’ll get really upset sometimes in my own head. I’m like, why do I keep writing songs that require so much of me? 

But it’s beautiful. You have to have the hardship. I honestly love hearing you say this, because I think there’s some artists who find their niche, and then they just do that over and over and over. It’s almost like the struggle and the sacrifice as an artist to see just how far you can take it.

Bailey Crone: Yeah, it really is. I’m so glad when it’s over. It’s relieving and validating to have done it. It feels crazy. 

Damon Moon: Like with this record, we were playing a show the day the record came out so didn’t really have time to think about the record coming out. But since then, it’s been pretty surreal and just feels like, “wow, we did a lot.” It was hard. This wasn’t easy, this was the hardest thing that we’ve done.