Biscuit Shrine Interview
Q: Can you talk about your music history?
A: I started playing guitar when I was maybe eight or nine, only really playing with friends when I began high school. I started writing music as Biscuit Shrine around 2021, making mixtapes and demos before I worked on a project called Victim Control Bank, it was two of us, focused on electronic experimentation. That carried into early 2023 between picking up and working on Biscuit Shrine.
Q: What is your creative process like? Can you explain some of the process for Between the Real?
A: A lot of the work that came into the album had circulated in my mind many times, there are tracks on there that I’ve become almost more familiar with in a way, to see how they’d fleshed out over time. Some ideas just come to me instantaneously without too much thought, then it’s kind of threading together the jigsaw pieces into something that emulates the idea or feeling and giving it a general vision.
Q: Are there any themes you were trying to capture with this album?
A: I think that what really encompasses the space and atmosphere throughout the record is this overall sense of longing which drives as the center component. Of course, there are other things there, naturally, though the tracks all represent a time and place that I wanted to get back to, or to keep in some way as a reminder, like a time capsule of experiences and emotions. That’s what I was trying to do with this album, to give it a personal thread. I think that for everyone there’s always something different in how the music is interpreted and that’s what makes it interesting. Music can move people.
Q: Can you talk about the production? Are there any tools you found indispensable for making the music?
A: The whole album was recorded from around December 2022 up to October 2023. All of it was actually written and performed in my bedroom. It’s a tight space, always kind of cramped, but it was probably because it was full of old gear from the 90s that my parents had collected over the years. It’s a hard thing to pull off when there’s no band as such, especially this kind of music, but the limitations force new ways of doing things, different ways of writing and composing. I guess the main way to approach it is to think like a band. Throughout the process that was the headspace I needed to be in. How can I do this like there’s five or six people in this room?
Q: What are some of your influences who helped the album? This doesn't have to pertain solely to music.
A: Strange enough, the biggest influence is always based on the day I go to record, the lead up of days, what I’m thinking of at the time, even the weather can just change everything with what I’m doing. There’s not one song on the album that I could do again the same way. It comes in bursts too, like when I’m on to something there’s been times where it goes a whole day by, like a flow state I guess, another day another piece and the music just goes until it doesn’t and when it doesn’t I wait. It always comes back.
Q: What else should we know about Biscuit Shrine?
A: Not an awful lot actually.. just keep making.
Q: Can you talk about your music history?
A: I started playing guitar when I was maybe eight or nine, only really playing with friends when I began high school. I started writing music as Biscuit Shrine around 2021, making mixtapes and demos before I worked on a project called Victim Control Bank, it was two of us, focused on electronic experimentation. That carried into early 2023 between picking up and working on Biscuit Shrine.
Q: What is your creative process like? Can you explain some of the process for Between the Real?
A: A lot of the work that came into the album had circulated in my mind many times, there are tracks on there that I’ve become almost more familiar with in a way, to see how they’d fleshed out over time. Some ideas just come to me instantaneously without too much thought, then it’s kind of threading together the jigsaw pieces into something that emulates the idea or feeling and giving it a general vision.
Q: Are there any themes you were trying to capture with this album?
A: I think that what really encompasses the space and atmosphere throughout the record is this overall sense of longing which drives as the center component. Of course, there are other things there, naturally, though the tracks all represent a time and place that I wanted to get back to, or to keep in some way as a reminder, like a time capsule of experiences and emotions. That’s what I was trying to do with this album, to give it a personal thread. I think that for everyone there’s always something different in how the music is interpreted and that’s what makes it interesting. Music can move people.
Q: Can you talk about the production? Are there any tools you found indispensable for making the music?
A: The whole album was recorded from around December 2022 up to October 2023. All of it was actually written and performed in my bedroom. It’s a tight space, always kind of cramped, but it was probably because it was full of old gear from the 90s that my parents had collected over the years. It’s a hard thing to pull off when there’s no band as such, especially this kind of music, but the limitations force new ways of doing things, different ways of writing and composing. I guess the main way to approach it is to think like a band. Throughout the process that was the headspace I needed to be in. How can I do this like there’s five or six people in this room?
Q: What are some of your influences who helped the album? This doesn't have to pertain solely to music.
A: Strange enough, the biggest influence is always based on the day I go to record, the lead up of days, what I’m thinking of at the time, even the weather can just change everything with what I’m doing. There’s not one song on the album that I could do again the same way. It comes in bursts too, like when I’m on to something there’s been times where it goes a whole day by, like a flow state I guess, another day another piece and the music just goes until it doesn’t and when it doesn’t I wait. It always comes back.
Q: What else should we know about Biscuit Shrine?
A: Not an awful lot actually.. just keep making.