TJ: Yes, Nico is a very important character on the record. MF: The name Nico is mentioned in ‘Morph’ and then again in ‘Nico and the Niners’, is that a reoccurring character on the album? I think that when you watch the music videos and you see how we depicted this world of Trench, it definitely is a representation of how we were feeling when going into needing to write a new record. I think that definitely I’ve felt that in the past, but more importantly I was feeing it currently as I was writing the record – this idea of being in between the last record and what is this new record. MF: Did that come from a place you were experiencing at the time? Like, were you feeling in between things? So, the narrative is really to try to describe some of those emotions that some people could come to feel as they travel through their own journey. When you’re travelling inside of Trench it’s similar to really being in between two places, whether that’s in between jobs or in between school or in between seasons of life something that I think a lot of people can relate to. Dema is the city that in this record, in this narrative, I’m from and I feel the need to escape, to leave, and more than anything the record represents that feeling. The record is called Trench, and Trench is a world, this place that’s mostly made of trees and rocks and uncharted territory and wild terrain, and at the very bottom of the world is a city called Dema. MF: Is there an overarching storyline or theme for the record?
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In the past, as I would teach myself how to play the piano, I found that same sense of excitement and inspiration in a new instrument in the bass guitar on this record, and I think that if you go into it thinking about that or realising that then you can see evidence of that. I was very inclined to reach for the bass guitar while writing each of these songs.