BOI | ORD: An Interview with Sinking.
It’s usually an unspoken rule that band members live in the
same general area in order to assure strict practices, constant collaboration
and uncomplicated recording sessions. Kyle Ekstrom and Darian Renee choose to
not play by those rules.
With Ekstrom in Chicago and Renee in Boise, there’s roughly 1,500 miles that could potentially make or break their new synth pop duo called
Sinking. For Renee, that’s the part that she finds the most fascinating.
The meaning behind the name Sinking isn’t important; it’s
the chemistry between Ekstrom and Renee that counts. Both have heavy musical
backgrounds, playing in bands during their teen years and also currently
working on solo material that spans different genres.
Their debut single, “Bloom”, was originally meant as a piece
of Ekstrom's solo project and Renee's involvement was simply supposed to be the
lead actress for the music video. They both told the story about how Ekstrom messaged her out of the blue seeing if she would fly to Chicago to be in the
music video. “During that weekend we decided that we wanted to start a band
together,” Renee said. “He proposed the idea to me after we had jammed a
couple times while shooting the video so it happened really fast but it felt
like the right thing to do.”
“It’s something completely different than what we’re both
used to,” Ekstrom added.
Their jam sessions included discussions of their love for
pop and alternative music and when they agreed to work together, they knew they
wanted to combine their favorite genres. “[Kyle] brought up that he wanted to
do something with an indie pop sound with synths and more on the alternative
side and it really brought me back to my roots,” Renee said.
Since releasing their first track as Sinking, they’ve been
spending as much time as they can passing song clips back and forth and are
narrowing down ideas. It helps that both of them have the basics down as far as
self-producing, so they’re able to send clear cuts of what they’re working
with. “It works, passing ideas back and forth. It’s more focused,” Ekstrom said. “We’re just collecting all of these ideas
right now and trying to put them into something.”
Although they are still just in the writing process, Sinking
plans on releasing more music this year and wants their first release to really
turn heads. They may come from different musical backgrounds and they may be
coming together to try something totally different, but the natural chemistry
is there. And that’s all they need.
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