Lateral Thinking With BANKS ARCADE

Interview by Rashid Alkamraihki
Melbourne based music machine Banks Arcade are in the prime of
their musical career.
Having recently completed the Death 2 A Muse Tour, Banks Arcade now
set their sights on the release of new album A Muse, which will be
unleashed on June 28.
Formed over a shared love of music with a razor-sharp avant-garde
aesthetic, Banks Arcade have always teetered on modernity; a fact
displayed firmly on their 2018 debut EP Endnote, its 2020 follow-up
Fever Dreams, and the group's head-turning singles Roses and Drown,
both of which have gone on to amass well over 2 million individual
streams.
Releasing their full-length Future Lovers in 2022, Banks Arcade
cemented their future-facing trademark style while also turning
heads courtesy of their emphatic soundscapes, searing metal and
hip-hop additions.
Evolving from the darker sides explored on their recent DEATH 2 EP,
released in February, A Muse finds the New Zealand-hailing,
Melbourne-based quartet shedding the expected and instead
flourishing between moments of searing rock, towering hooks, dance
beats and fresh explorations into heavy surrounds.
HEAVY interrogator Rashid caught up with the band the afternoon of
their final Brisbane show to talk more about the album, the tour,
the different stylistic choices between both EPs (Death 2 and A
Muse) and releasing them as two separate works rather than an
album, hotel stabbings and the price of cheese in New Zealand plus
more.


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