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Opening up
ired’, the new album from ith the album being titled it can be like, “Why’s my life not like
W‘Wired’, bassist Sam Dou- that?” It’s all very fake sometimes,
‘WMallory Knox, has brought glas tells us that it’s about how we’re and that’s another reason of why we
back a new hunger and passion to connected as humans, but also went the way we did of calling the
album ‘Wired’.”
there’s a technological aspect to it
the five-piece; Mikey Chapman, Sam too. “We’re all connected a lot more A lot of bands do seem to be writ-
Douglas, James Gillett, Joe Savins than we kind of realize,” he says, be- ing songs in relation to the internet at
fore adding, “everything is so inter- the moment. We have an interview
and Dave Rawling. It’s an album that net-based and everything has to go with Candlebox also in this issue,
is eye-opening – for both them and through social media and stuff like where Kevin Martin wrote the single
that, that I’ve found it can actually af- ‘Vexatious’ about a girl on a beach in
music fans. It sees revelations that fect how you perceive things on the Bali posing for selfies to post online
we never knew before, a fragility, but outside and how it can affect you; if rather than enjoying the beach. It
you’re someone sitting at home and seems a lot of musicians find hu-
also the strength to battle through someone is posting something of mans’ addictions to social media dis-
that and come out the other side. being at a show or being on holiday, turbing, but at the same time, we all
MALLORY KNOX
