On this episode of Mind Massage, Wallows take us on a sound journey using some of their favorite items such as their vinyls, tennis rackets, La Croix and more!
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00:00 [door opens]
00:01 [door closes]
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00:04 [door opens]
00:05 Hello, I'm Brayden.
00:06 I'm Cole.
00:07 I'm Dylan.
00:08 And we're Wallows.
00:09 Welcome to Mind Massage.
00:11 We're here today to take you on a sound journey
00:15 using some of our favorite things.
00:17 [plastic crinkling]
00:23 [glass clinking]
00:24 So, sit back, relax, and enjoy.
00:27 [plastic crinkling]
00:35 Wow.
00:36 [plastic crinkling]
00:40 Where did you bring this from?
00:42 Um, this is my tennis racket.
00:44 I picked up tennis like a year and a half ago
00:47 and I became totally obsessed.
00:49 And, um, yeah, I play multiple times a week.
00:52 [plastic crinkling]
00:57 Okay.
00:59 Lemon and lime.
01:01 This might be kind of loud.
01:03 [plastic clinking]
01:16 One inch.
01:18 There you go.
01:20 [plastic crinkling]
01:22 There's something so satisfying about a tennis ball.
01:25 It's so green, so limey.
01:28 [plastic crinkling]
01:31 Dylan and I met when we were very young.
01:33 Um, and we bonded over our love for music,
01:36 the same kind of music.
01:38 We basically met Cole like a year and a half later.
01:41 And, um, from there we just started writing songs
01:45 and been a band now for a long time.
01:48 [plastic crinkling]
01:50 It's very nice.
01:52 Beautiful.
01:53 We've played as a band together for a really long time.
01:56 And, uh, we went by various band names
02:00 for most of our teenage years.
02:02 And at a certain point we were like,
02:04 "Man, we've kind of outgrown our old names.
02:07 What do we change it to?"
02:09 I think Brayden realized that in Tony Hawk's Underground--
02:13 Yep.
02:14 Is that right?
02:15 That's right.
02:16 There's a level that you can play called Wallows.
02:19 It's a skate spot in Hawaii
02:21 that we actually went to in real life when we played there.
02:24 That's right.
02:25 He threw it in the hat, and that's what we landed on.
02:29 I mean, I feel like our influences are ever-evolving
02:33 as we discover new artists and new music that's coming out.
02:37 Definitely stems back to, like, the Beatles originally,
02:40 and then the Strokes were a huge one for us
02:42 and things like that.
02:44 And nowadays it's just whatever is currently exciting to us,
02:50 I'd say.
02:52 But it's ever-evolving, really.
02:56 It's funny doing it like this.
02:58 You feel like you're being interrupted by something.
03:02 So we have a new album coming out.
03:05 It's called Model.
03:07 It's our third album.
03:09 We have two different versions of the final here.
03:12 We've got the standard one, which is clear,
03:15 and then the--which one is that?
03:17 I think this is the Sunset.
03:19 The Sunset, yeah.
03:20 Brayden's helping with that one.
03:21 Sunset, wow.
03:24 We're gonna open them for you.
03:27 Just gonna need a string grab.
03:39 Hang on.
03:42 It's our first time with a gatefold.
03:47 It has our poster on the inside.
03:50 And all the lyrics in the back.
04:07 I got the Sunset variant.
04:09 I've got the standard clear variant.
04:11 It's 12 songs.
04:24 No skips.
04:26 The creative process for Model,
04:29 we--I feel like this album came together quicker
04:33 than our other projects in terms of the recording.
04:37 We ended up going into a studio for about two months,
04:41 and we recorded 25 different songs.
04:45 So, yeah, just a lot of material this time.
04:50 And we very carefully narrowed it down to our favorite 12.
04:56 We worked with our producer, John Congleton, again,
04:59 who did our first album, Nothing Happens.
05:02 And, yeah, we're really excited for people to hear it.
05:06 It feels like our most mature project.
05:10 We've been a band for a long time now,
05:12 so, yeah, it feels like--it sounds that way.
05:17 I hope that listeners find this album to be very addictive
05:20 and easy to put on and not too difficult to digest,
05:24 just really enjoyable, really addicting.
05:26 It's my favorite kind of album, one that flies by
05:28 and one that you just want to keep putting on.
05:30 That's what I want people to get.
05:31 And I want our hardcore fans to--I want our hardcore--
05:37 like, our diehard fans to have something
05:39 that really means something to them with this album
05:41 like our albums before.
05:43 This can hopefully do something for them
05:45 at this point in their life
05:46 in that it resonates with their fans deeply.
05:49 I hope it's our most enjoyable yet.
05:52 You're always trying to, like, write music
05:55 that you haven't written before,
05:56 but naturally it's like you're writing it,
05:59 so, you know, I always say, like,
06:02 if I picked up a guitar now,
06:03 it may or may not be different to something
06:05 I would write seven years ago,
06:07 but it naturally will be because you just--
06:10 influences change or you hear something new,
06:13 or, like, how many more words can a novelist write?
06:17 They all exist.
06:18 You just got to rearrange them, you know?
06:21 Think about if I had to bring an album
06:23 to a deserted island,
06:24 it would be "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys
06:26 because I feel like that album is so beautiful,
06:29 and I feel like there's a lot of emotions
06:33 that that album, like, conjures up in you,
06:37 and I feel like if you wanted to remember
06:40 a lost love, you got that song,
06:42 and if you wanted to remember true love,
06:44 you have those songs as well.
06:46 Beautifully, beautifully, beautifully written.
06:49 - Cool.
06:50 "Pet Sounds" is what I was going to say,
06:52 so I'm going to say "Blonde."
06:54 - Nice.
06:55 - I was going to say "Pet Sounds," too,
06:57 which is, yeah.
06:59 Yeah, "Pet Sounds."
07:01 So I have this thing...
07:03 [blender whirring]
07:05 where every time I drink out of a can--
07:08 I absolutely have to do this every single time
07:11 when I finish the drink, every time.
07:14 But I'll walk you through what I do.
07:24 And then I fold the inside back.
07:27 And then I tear the top off this for some reason.
07:35 And I drop it in.
07:41 And I tear this in half.
07:45 Let's see.
07:49 I break it all into little pieces.
07:53 And then that's when I recycle the can.
07:56 I think it'd be really fun to switch lives
08:07 with Magnus Carlsen,
08:09 the greatest chess player of all time,
08:11 because it'd be really fun to see what that means.
08:15 Like, what is that dude cooking up in his brain?
08:19 It's pretty cool.
08:20 That's a great answer.
08:22 I would switch bodies with, um...
08:26 with Carlos Alcaraz.
08:28 [laughter]
08:30 So I could play tennis at a Grand Slam.
08:34 There you go.
08:35 If I had a superpower, it would be
08:38 to have Scotty Scheffler's golf skills.
08:41 That'd be so cool.
08:42 And maybe, like, fly.
08:44 Flying would be pretty coded.
08:47 I mean, teleportation would be great.
08:50 You could do so many things.
08:52 But then it would get boring,
08:53 and you wouldn't appreciate the journey.
08:56 The journey. True.
08:57 You would just always be places.
08:58 It's like the Seinfeld bit of, like,
09:00 "We're out. This is what out is."
09:02 And when you're out, you gotta go back.
09:04 People wanna get back when you're out.
09:06 It's like that vibe.
09:07 You're always just gonna wanna travel somewhere else.
09:09 You're not gonna be happy where you are.
09:11 Telepathy.
09:12 To be able to pick something up with your back.
09:15 Oh, but then you're--
09:17 Telekinesis.
09:18 Oh, shit. Telekinesis.
09:19 But then you're not gonna appreciate using your hands.
09:22 Yeah, it's always--
09:25 Have the superpower to always appreciate what's going on.
09:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:30 Okay.
09:32 So I brought my Friday the 13th Ultimate Collection.
09:42 Some Jason Voorhees.
09:46 One of the underrated people up there
09:49 with Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Jason Voorhees.
09:54 My number one is Michael Myers, though.
09:57 Sorry, Jason.
09:59 "Halloween III" season of "The Wedge"
10:01 is one of the greatest movies of all time.
10:08 Friday the 13th, the final chapter.
10:11 Jason has 14 kills.
10:14 That's pretty scratched up, Brayden.
10:19 Sorry.
10:21 Sorry, Michael.
10:23 We love Halloween.
10:25 We love going to Halloween Horror Nights every year.
10:28 We love horror movies.
10:30 Kids, if you didn't know, on a DVD,
10:34 there's scene selections.
10:36 So if you want a scene, you can't scroll.
10:38 You have to, like, put in--
10:40 You have to go to-- click forward to the scene of the movie
10:42 that you want to watch.
10:44 But this is one of the most underrated films of all time.
10:47 "Halloween III" season of "The Wedge."
10:49 If you haven't seen it, there's no Michael in it,
10:50 but it's so good.
10:52 So my favorite movies of all time are
10:55 "Halloween," "Halloween III," "Halloween IV,"
10:58 "Jaws," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
11:01 The movie that I've probably seen the most in my life
11:04 is "Finding Nemo,"
11:06 'cause my little sister was obsessed.
11:08 I've seen it, like, just dozens of times.
11:12 It's a good one.
11:13 I think, uh,
11:15 the original "Scream" is way up there for me.
11:18 And also, uh, "The Iron Giant."
11:20 That's the first movie I ever saw in theaters,
11:23 and I was...that big.
11:25 And it's just--yeah, it's resonated with me ever since.
11:29 I still think it's an incredible, incredible film.
11:31 Also, the social network's really rewatchable and great.
11:35 It's also one of my favorites.
11:36 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
11:38 Oh, yeah.
11:40 Yeah? Yeah.
11:42 I feel like the goal would always be to just
11:45 write songs and release albums that we're really proud of
11:48 and never just, like, make an album to put one out
11:51 or just 'cause we need to.
11:53 You know, it's always gonna be
11:54 because we feel like we have music
11:56 that we want people to hear.
11:57 Like, there's no quota.
11:59 We're trying to keep up with, you know?
12:02 So I feel like our goal is just to stay consistent
12:04 with, like, the music we make,
12:07 and, um, and hopefully, um,
12:12 the shows grow because people discover you more.
12:15 I think that'd be really cool,
12:16 'cause that's what that means, you know?
12:18 I think just to get better.
12:20 I mean, uh, to believe that our music
12:22 is getting better and cooler and stronger.
12:24 Yeah. As long as we can keep doing that
12:26 and believing in that,
12:27 then we can keep doing this forever.
12:29 I also think my main goal for the next year and a half
12:33 while we're touring and doing this, like, big--
12:36 you know, the biggest tour we've done yet,
12:38 having these really big moments,
12:39 is to just remain present and enjoy and appreciate
12:43 and soak in every single moment,
12:45 because you never know when it could all just be done,
12:49 you know, so just really, like, take this in
12:52 as if it's never gonna happen again,
12:54 but it's definitely going to.
12:56 Yeah. It's just-- I just really soak it in,
12:58 'cause it's easy to go onstage and sort of, like,
13:00 dissociate and, like, get all--
13:01 and be like, "I don't even remember
13:03 what that show was like."
13:04 It was, like, a really important one.
13:06 I make sure I soak it all in.
13:07 Too many drinks.
13:09 Just kidding.
13:10 For me, your best self-love would be obvious things,
13:14 like trying not to compare yourself to others, you know?
13:17 Maybe staying off social media as much as you can,
13:20 or, like, don't let it, like, be, like,
13:22 your life or something, and mindfulness,
13:25 and, like, just meditation helps a lot,
13:29 and just being happy with who you are.
13:31 Like, I heard this thing with, like, self-consciousness
13:33 or, like, being over-aware of yourself is, like,
13:36 only-- would only be negative,
13:37 so it's, like, you want to try to just be happy
13:40 with who you are.
13:41 It's easier said than done, don't get me wrong,
13:43 but I think meditation, mindfulness, God unlocks.
13:46 Having good food, if you can, is good.
13:50 It's good, potentially.
13:51 It could help you out.
13:52 Whatever works for you, honestly.
13:54 My best self-love advice, I think, um,
13:57 I think it's okay to be critical of yourself.
14:01 I think it's okay to, like, want to edit yourself,
14:05 but if you do that, and, like,
14:07 there's things you would change or whatever,
14:09 just be really nice about it.
14:11 Just take it easy, like, everything's gonna be okay,
14:14 and whatever it is that you see yourself doing
14:17 or that you want to change or whatever,
14:20 just take baby steps, and, like, you can do it.
14:23 Like, sometimes I'm guilty of saying things
14:26 with, like, mean words
14:27 when they don't have to be mean words,
14:29 so just try to swap in some nicer ones.
14:35 I'm not trying to be a broken record,
14:37 but I do think that the best form of self-love
14:39 is staying away from social media as much as you can
14:43 because I think that is the precipice
14:45 of a lot of self-harm and mental harm,
14:49 and the more you can realize that that's not real life
14:52 and just focus on yourself and not what others are doing,
14:54 the better you're gonna feel,
14:55 and the more you're gonna find you love about yourself.
14:59 Well, everybody, we've been Wallows.
15:03 I hope you enjoyed our mind massage.
15:06 Our third album, "Model," releases on May 24th,
15:11 and, yeah, we hope you find it and listen,
15:16 and maybe we'll see you at a show.
15:19 (electronic beeping)