Lost & Found: An Interview with Closer to Found
Since the age of 15, bass has always been Lawrence Leylekian’s
instrument of choice. His bass followed him throughout high school, with
different bands involving different friends. After disconnecting with previous
bands, the next step was starting his own project.
When Closer to Found came to be, the first thing Leylekian did was set up studio time to begin working on song ideas he had been sitting
on for years as well as test out newer ideas. It started as a lone endeavor
until Zackari Bourgeois, a friend from a former band, was invited to the
studio. “I always had an appreciation for his lyrical style so I decided that I
wanted to work with him,” Lawrence said. “The first day that he came into the
studio so we could try to collaborate on some lyrics, I still hadn’t found
anybody to do some clean singing so I gave him an opportunity to do it and was
very surprised by what he could do. In the beginning, the collision of those
two different mindsets created a unique sound and we went with it from there… From
there, we finished the album just the two of us.”
As the album finished, they started looking for members to
complete their act. Little by little, former bandmates and dedicated artists
from the Montreal/Toronto area filled out the rest of Closer to Found. The
record, Always Just As Lost, comes as
a play on the band name. The album has moments of being lost and found and
generates a specific emotion. “For the title, it definitely ties into how there
can be a feeling of desperation or feeling lost in general and the songs in
them of themselves are catalogs in that journey,” Leylekian said.
Always
Just As Lost is
meant to be a message of hope. Each song tells a story of things not going the
way that they should be but figuring out a way to turn it in your favor. An
important aspect that they wanted to portray in the lyrics is that destiny is
meant be a concept that you control. As the music of their influences helped
them get through tough times, Closer to Found hopes their listeners do the same
with their music.
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