Tightening The Noose With JAYDON COLVINTO From OUTLOVED

Interview by Kris Peters
It's been a big year and even bigger last few weeks for East
Gippsland alternative rock outfit Outloved.
As well as recently releasing the single Tourniquet - which
features Ocean Sleeper vocalists Karl Spiessl and Ionei Heckenberg
- Outloved also supported Windwaker and Caskets, announced EP
launch shows in Sydney and Melbourne and are also preparing to drop
their EP Drowner.
Blending heavy rock, pop punk and metalcore, Outloved refuse to sit
neatly into any one genre, instead choosing to express themselves
according to their own values.
HEAVY caught up with vocalist Jaydon Colvinto find out more,
starting with the new single Tourniquet.
"It's a mix of metalcore plus bringing a bit of pop/punk into it,
in a way," he offered. "We haven't really written a song with low
tuned guitars before and that song was originally meant to be a
filler song on an EP and it ended up being a case of let's make it
a single. As we started pulling it together I thought this could do
with a feature and Ionei, who sings in Ocean Sleeper, is our
producer as well and I co-write with him quite a lot. I said do you
and Karl wanna jump on it and he said that would be sick. They were
happy to jump on it and pull the track together in the end, which
was awesome."
In the full interview, Jaydon talks more about Tourniquet, what
Karl and Ionei brought to the song, what it's like collaborating
with other artists, how Tourniquet differs musically to previous
single Never The One, the upcoming EP and what to expect, what they
take out of playing bigger support shows, their album launch shows
and more.