Copenhagen’s Shinyhunt, interviewed by eviedall for WKNC
On making music as a couple
Frederik
“we started making music together because we make it in our home and listening to each other’s songs, we started adding stuff to each other’s songs, and then ‘Joyland Grow in Me’ became a really explorative record for us, because we didn’t know what sound we wanted to explore further, then we found it on that record. ‘Sea Salt Ice Cream’ is kind of like an an extension of what sound resonated the most between us from that record.”
Signe
“it has been another kind of language to have with each other, a way of getting to know each other and finding a deeper way of communicating with each other.”
“It’s like adding things on top of each other’s work and in that way, talking, but not specifically, It’s a more intuitive way.”
On Copenhagen’s Music Scene
Frederik
“I feel a lot of inspiration being drawn from what is happening with other bands in the city right now. There’s a lot of intense energy being poured into a lot of projects that are pulling each other up in a way. And you can also feel it, when we played a gig with with a band called ‘Meow’, who we had a really great time that gives a lot of energy to the project as a whole; I love their music, and suddenly we are standing on a stage together, and sharing an evening.”
“I feel a part of something, I feel really like lucky to be making music right now, at a time where a lot of other great artists are doing so many cool things.”
On ‘Pink.Cotton Wave’
Frederik
“We wrote that song like five, four years ago, but didn’t where it didn’t go anywhere until Signe sat down two years ago and delivered the most perfect vocal to that song.”
“We had the experience, for the first time making music together, being like, whoa, we just made something really cool. Since then we have tried to chase the same feeling, like gut feeling when we are listening to a song we we’ve made together.”
On ‘University Halls’
Signe
“‘University Halls’ was a bit about remembering being younger and remembering some situations in love or with boys, where you now think ‘where was my self respect? Or why? Why did I go along with that?’ With these unsatisfying feelings for that long.”
“The funny part about ‘University Halls’ is that it was a very difficult song for us to write. [Frederik] made the instrumental that is very experimental and deals with a lot of different drum rhythms and and paths so it took us some time getting finished with it, but now we very happy about it.”