This week, SceneSC got the chance to interview Chloe Chaidez of LA’s Kitten. They released their first EP, Sunday School, last fall and are currently out on their first tour supporting Young The Giant on their way to SXSW. Lucky for us, Kitten will be taking a break from supporting Young and bring their brand of “darkly inflected pop” to the House of Softcore on March 13 to play with David Adedokun and one more, to be announced.
Kitten
David Adedokun
TBA
David Adedokun
TBA
SceneSC’s House Of Softcore
Sunday March 13
8 PM $5
806 Florence St
Columbia, SC 29201
Sunday March 13
8 PM $5
806 Florence St
Columbia, SC 29201
So tell me a little about what transpired to take you from playing covers in Wild Youth to where you are now with Kitten, recording your full-length and touring for the first time.
Well, at a certain point, I was still playing covers with the band, but I gradually started writing my own material, and as a band we started writing together. I think, at a certain point, you learn the structure so well by playing covers that you can easily apply it to your own music. I basically grew out of playing David Bowie and moved on.
Inevitably, your age is always the first thing mentioned in every article I’ve read about your band. Are you tired of hearing that by now, and does it frustrate you that you’ll probably still be hearing that three to four years from now?
Well it definitely is inevitable with me being sixteen, and fifteen when we started, but I understand how that would happen, so it doesn’t really bother me at all, as long as that’s not they only thing they’re talking about.
What bands have been your role models so far, in terms of helping you out and figuring what you want to be as a band and how to do that.
Obviously, as far as influences, you can tell we’re really into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a lot of older music like Joy Division and New Order. As far as our role models, we’re just starting out and haven’t really found that yet.
Tell me about the other guys in the band, and what they each bring to the band dynamic.
We’ve been together for a while. I met the drummer back when he was in high school, through other friends, and he’s been playing with us for the longest, along with our guitar player Andy. Everyone contributes a lot. For almost all the songs, I come to them with it on acoustic guitar and they write their parts over it. We also make a lot of music outside of Kitten that we all sort of bring in on our computers, and stuff like that. So, yeah, everyone definitely contributes a lot.
And, as far as personalities, do you guys ever clash at all?
We actually don’t clash that much. Honestly, our creative styles are so similar that we know what we like and don’t like, mostly what we don’t like, so that really helps because we’re all on the same page creatively. As far as personally and day-to-day, not really. We bust each other’s balls so much anyways that nothing really insults anyone.
Last question. I know that you’re in the process of recording your full-length. How do you foresee that differing from the EP you released last fall?
With the EP we hadn’t really hadn’t really gelled as a band as much as we have now on this album. This album is a lot more live in feel, and a little older, as opposed to the electronic sort of feel on the EP. So, yeah, the style will be a lot more live and energetic, not that the EP wasn’t energetic, but you know, it’s going to be a bit more on this album.
Well, thanks a bunch for giving us your time to do this, and we’re looking forward to the show
No problem, thank you.
Check out a live session of their single, Kill The Light:
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