mikewaite22

“the lockdown periods of the pandemic weren’t entirely the shock for us that they were to many other people”

“I was into extreme metal, especially death metal, in my single digits…”

“The container of this album and this era of work has always felt intrinsically tied to myself.”

“The string progression from Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” truly spoke to me and wasn’t one I was expecting, so I wanted to take advantage of this pleasant surprise and go the route of a trance/dubstep track.”

“It’s just so strange that this thing exists in the first place. Of course it would be out in the middle of the desert.”

“we wanted to create a vivid snapshot of a very particular moment…”

“He unlatched it at the edges and it turned out not to be a box at all, but a wooden resonating chamber with a spinning bike wheel inside…”

“We have this deep connection to each other that exists outside of, and often in defiance of, state violence against houseless, incarcerated and stateless individuals.”

“Grimalkin is a culmination of all the things I’m passionate about like organizing, disability justice, education, activism, mutual aid, and of course music.”

“…not only the big losses like death and so on, but also the small ones that occur on a daily basis, like seeing your kids grow up too fast, or not being able to do 25 push ups in a row anymore…”