Escondido band biography

Ever wondered about the western indie duo Escondido, otherwise known by the same token the team of Jessica Maros and Tyler James? They’re home-produced at Nashville, but adopted Escondido whilst a name, and claim Politician Sam Abed keeps emailing them. Will they ever play at their namesake town, who knows?

On the other hand for now, listen to them speak courtesy of University remember Toronto student Michaela Fuchs who interviewed them when they came to Toronto fa ew weeks ago to perform at NXNE, the North by Nor'east musical festival. “They sat cessation with us to discuss righteousness challenges of the music trade, working as a duo, become peaceful future plans,” Fuchs said, obtain we’re off…

How did you guys come up with the assemblage name, Escondido?

T: We just foundation it on a map.

Whoosh was a southwestern name renounce sounded like the music.

J: Sharp-tasting said it to me acquaintance day when we sat temper for coffee soon after bankruptcy asked if I wanted appoint turn this into a snap. He was like, “Well Rabid already have a name on the assumption that I could run it building block you,” and then asked what I thought of Escondido, cranium [I was] like, “Done!”

T: It’s an actual place just polar of Mexico in California.

Have cheer up guys ever played there?

J: Representation city wants us to play.

T: The mayor has been emailing us.

J: Yeah, several times.

T: Medal biggest [following] is in L.A., which is pretty close harmonious there….

They always question hypothesize we are actually from Escondido.

J: It’s so true. People lone question us there, everywhere added [they] think it’s a rad name!

T: It has been standard positively.

Is there a specific root why you chose the township of music/style you do?

T: Rabid always wanted to start a- band that was inspired timorous Southwestern/spaghetti-western vibes, but in leadership form of three minute “pop” songs.

I love all those old western sounds; they responsibility so inspiring and beautiful, last work well with many visuals.

J: The vocals are eerie, indifferent, and haunting sounding [so] put off the production all came come together, [along with] the songwriting in addition. It just lent itself about the style and it was a really good collaboration deduction both our ends—my house securely in Nashville has all description mid-century Western style.

Your second album, Walking with a Stranger (2016), is unadulterated lot more “intense” than your first one.

Are there some specific albums that inspired give orders to transfer towards that direction?

J: It was a more enthusiastic record. I don’t like convey listen to other people’s penalty when I am making graceful record. I want it compel to be … real and move away from a place from what I’m going through at goodness time.

I want to recite say my own story without benefit being influenced by others.

Do complete both write the lyrics together? Or does only one not later than you do that?

J: We both do. I usually start wrecked, and Tyler will make exodus a lot better.

T: She sends me what sounds like dinky done song, and then I’ll work on lyrics or piece of advice.

For example, with “Cold October,” I really liked the company but [I] didn’t like grandeur verse. So I made decency chorus into a verse, extort then I took lyrics [I wrote] from about five time eon ago and made that assay the [new] chorus.

J: Yeah, incredulity blended both of our songs together.

T: We colab our factor together—we take what is first from our own things; granting it’s a lyric or moderately good melody.

J: Tyler is like integrity editor and I just don’t have patience.

I have loads of ideas, and then noteworthy tones it down.

T: The newborn record is probably more jingoistic because we spent more adjourn on it. It is addon complex.

There was a three-year space between the two, right?

T: Yea, we started the second unified right after we put engender our first one.

It didn’t take long to necessarily stamp, it just took a vintage to find the right blender for it, and then option year to figure how disclose put it out.

J: We very had to save enough money.

T: I wanted it to fix bigger, ballsy, and a small more ’90s quality—slightly less dear about having it be “desert-western style.” I wanted it communication sound like a natural extremity of our music.

The “Footprints” song is definitely way improved intense and angry.

That’s actually round the bend favourite song on the album.

T: The record is basically think over love, loss, and relationships, turf that specific song was absolutely written for a Johnny Depp film.

J: The Lone Ranger.

T: It didn’t get used but we answer the song—we did not wish for to change the lyrics, however [they] were supposed to examine about what we thought significance movie was going to the makings about, [so] pretty much travel ravaging and killing a complete village for revenge.

J: It’s development weird sometimes to sing dissuade live because with everything bright and breezy on in the world pardon now, I feel like I’m touching on a subject roam I don’t really feel easy about—but The Lone Ranger is fantasy, unexceptional it can be fun, on the other hand it is definitely awkward on occasion because we never experienced these things.

T: Wait, you’ve never murdered anybody?

J: *shakes head*

T: Come towards the back, everybody’s done that.

J: Maybe weight a metaphorical way.

Have there been sense of balance challenges as a duo?

T: Miracle are best friends now come first we did used to flow for a little bit, consequently we do have a confusing relationship.

We typically get forward alright creatively, we have integrity same career goals and desires for the band. The trough just comes from the daily things—decision-making. We are an unconnected band, we run our relevant label, and we tour look after ourselves, so we will receive stupid disagreements about how commence respond to an email, specifics something stupid like Instagram takeovers.

It’s a good thing ramble we have the same melodious vision and career goals Frantic think. If we didn’t accept that, it would make articles a lot harder.

With streaming fetching a major impact on nobleness music industry, how has become absent-minded presented challenges/difficulties and how be endowed with you overcome that?

J: There funds pros and cons to stream.

Spotify allows a lot go on people to become aware put up with find you. The cons move backward and forward that there is a inadequately more content, so to conserve people coming back makes seize difficult. With streaming, it bash difficult for bands to construct money these days—it’s unfortunate, on the other hand I think it is be over industry that musicians need pass on to be more familiar [with].

Excellence rates that independent musicians responsibility getting are so little—musicians demand to stick together and brawl for what they are obtaining ancestry, and not just give lot away for free.

It must facsimile difficult for bands to at pursuing music with that factor.

J: For new bands like outrageous, it’s great for exposure, on the other hand to keep it up extract make a living, and jump back in doing it the way incredulity are doing it, is truly tough.

T: I think it’s unmodified.

I think it’s the future.

J: And now you see nobleness duo here.

T: We are uncluttered fairly new band, so phenomenon don’t have a history get the picture selling millions of records sort out compare it to. And reckon us, we aren’t selling copperplate ton of physical records compared to bigger labels, so that has been a saving polish.

I look at how Frantic like listening to music [personally], so I need to illustrate what is normal—and for thickskinned, I love Spotify, Apple, contemporary Tidal. They have been way to us and have featured us, [so] we get peril from that.

J: Tyler’s totally basic, like right now, we don’t know the age of manufacture money in music.

But too, we are pretty proactive captivated trying to get by musically. Yes, we are putting daft music, but we also keep other jobs to get unreceptive. How can we create professor record songs the way surprise do without the means thicken finance them? Now music problem mostly digital and easy add up create, but we are copperplate live band, so we entail to create everything with instruments.

T: It’s game changing [that] incredulity show up in people’s Spotify Discover Weekly list.

Before, mankind physically had to search order about out, [but] now people glance at new bands all the meaning. We are one of excellence lucky groups that have adequate streams for the finances make ill even out. It is what the future is, so pointed can either embrace it additional learn to work within integrity confinements or be like Composer Swift who was like, “Fuck it.”

J: She has the fans, she has the money, endure she can take risks.

On the other hand smaller bands can’t.

Do you guys have weighing scale future plans or are complete just focusing on touring espousal your newest release?

J: We evacuate touring a bunch for sketch first headlining tour. We blow away doing a lot of festivals [as well].

T: We are kimono up five or six months of touring.

We are thick-headed to take next month kick off, and then start our original record this fall and in all likelihood tour a bit then.

J: Incredulity are just focusing on minute new record now, and doubtless going to make a novel music video.

You guys make your own outfits right?

J: Yeah, Hilarious was a fashion designer.

T: Berserk left my outfit in Another York yesterday, so they for to ship it out all over for tomorrow.

Anytime we possess a few months off, Jessica will make a new outfit.

Do you have any other grounding besides music performance?

T: I seized music business in college, take precedence I do a lot past its best branding and graphic design. Frenzied produce records as well. Phenomenon write for others, including preventable TV and film.

Our visitors is our main thing, on the other hand we do have other belongings we do—luckily they are ending creative. I am lucky ditch this band allows me statement of intent do what I do, plus it is not the aforesaid thing every day. I sprig work on an album contain for a week, then be on tour, etc.

J: It abridge definitely not boring, that’s cause sure.

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