Ian Williams

Ian Williams
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
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This is an unusual outbreak because it is linked to one source that has nationwide implications,
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I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.
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Friendly, accommodating and customer-centered as always. Even though I don't normally have champagne with breakfast at the crack of dawn, I felt compelled to rise to the occasion when it was offered.
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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.