This is Rockin' Roll, we're talking about electricity, it's a kiddie flexion, oh yeah, it could be a flexion.
This is Billy the Kitten, he is Nihilist.
He's a Nihilist?
Aw, really?
Is that his breed?
His breed is western there.
Nihilist cowboy kitten.
Does he have boots too?
No, it does not have boots.
I'm Christopher.
I'm Peter.
I'm Patrick.
I'm Chris.
We're X-Astronaut.
The band formed when Pete put a little note on the internet on a social media website that his band at the time was looking for a singer.
And myself wanting to sing more, this was of great interest to me.
We had a, I think we had one tryout?
Yeah, one tryout.
One tryout, it was like, alright, let's do this.
And then the rest has been a grand adventure.
That was about six and a half years ago.
And recently we actually changed your name because there were several other bands with the same name that we used to have that cropped up.
So to avoid confusion, also because we changed their sound quite a bit over the last six and a half years to what we are today,
figuring to get a fresh start on a new identity.
I think it's certainly more what we consider the shoe gauge genre.
A lot more ambient, kind of noisy.
We still have some elements of driving rock type stuff that we used to do.
We used to be heavily influenced by like 80s indie rock like Dicer Jr.
And maybe to the more indie rock elements like Sonic Youth and things like that.
We've been kind of moving away from that more towards like Michael A. Valentine and Slow Dive.
And newer bands like Ring of Death Star, a band called Nothing, things like that.
We're, you know, trying to explore as many different things as we can within the confines of these four musicians.
And yeah, as we started, it was definitely more of a straight ahead guitar attack, you know, band and vocals were somewhere.
And now we definitely have brought a lot more of the general elements.
I want to say that we're even more melodic.
Our song structures are constantly changing.
We're just, we don't want to stay stagnant at all.
So we just, you know, keep finding new ways to make things sound really good.
Yeah, it's always a constant process of writing and jamming and how we develop the songs.
We involve all four of us.
Basically one person comes to the table with kind of a demo that they did at home.
And then bring it to these guys and then they add their individual little flavors to it
and add their own notes and how to rearrange the songs and make it work better.
And then, you know, that's all.
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