Echoes Of The Future With MAT ROBINS From CICADASTONE

Interview by Kris Peters
After showing their potential over two previous albums Chance
Collide and Cold Chamber, Melbourne rock outfit Cicadastone are
ready to seal the deal with their third long player Future Echoes,
which is out now.
Taking the best bits and ideas from those first releases and
putting them into the cauldron that is Cicadastone 2024, the band
has created an album with a modern fresh edge, developing their own
unique sound while staying truly authentic to the genre.
Vocalist Mat Robins sat down with HEAVY to tell us more.
"I'm so relieved," he smiled when asked how it feels to get the new
album out. "It's been such a journey. As any band will know, from
the process of writing through to pre-production through to
recording through to mixing and mastering and releasing it takes a
long time. To get to the point where we could finally put it out
there and put it to bed so to speak, let it go, it's great. We can
move on as a band too."
Being their third album, we ask Mat if the process gets easier or
harder as you get further into your career.
"You'd think it would get easier, but I think it's getting harder,"
he measured. "We all have a lot of ties. We're all busy doing
things. I'd love to say we're making a living out of music, but
we're not. The band is its own entity which we pour our heart and
soul into. That said, we all have lives to live. This record was
really hard to lock everyone down and find time where we could. It
took a bit longer than it probably should have, but that's just how
it went."
In the full interview, Mat talks more about Future Echoes, the
single Take The Fall which Cicadastone released at the same time
and why it was chosen to represent the album on release day, the
other singles released and how they tie in with the album, the
cover art and what it means, how Future Echoes differs musically to
their debut album Chance Collide, their love for grunge music and
decision to stick with it despite the changing trends of music,
upcoming shows and more.


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