The Hollows Interview
1. If you had to describe your music to somebody who had never heard it before, how would you do so? (sort of like a descriptive sales pitch of your band)
DAN: People ask me that all the time and I have the hardest time describing it.
ROB: We often refer to our music as “junkyard rock”… our sound is a down-home gumbo of American musical flavors. Folk, bluegrass, country, garage rock, blues, moody alternative rock, gospel, gypsy, you name it. We don’t believe in having just one lead singer, and we swap instruments as often as we swap vocals. (I also find that “folk-rock” works.)
DAVE: Greil Marcus used the term “Old, Weird America” when referring to the sound of Dylan & The Band’s “Basement Tapes” — I used to think of the sound we aim for as “New, Weird America,” but then I found out that classification had already been applied to, like… Devendra and Grizzly Bear and Akron/Family and that whole scene, which is awesome, but probably doesn’t quite have room for us either. Um… “six guys, who all sing, and play about a baker’s dozen of instruments between ‘em.” Yeah. Really rolls off the tongue.
DAN: I guess folk-rock played in a garage, next to a junkyard, next to a field of wildflowers. Wildflower junkyard garage-Americana? I don’t know.
JEFF: Led Zeppelin meets CSNY, and they go camping, in the mountains, with a case of whiskey.
2. You have an EP coming out soon, what was the writing process like for that?
