I think it’s also because everyone listens to quite a lot of different music. It really depends on who’s tired on which day (laughs). It’s funny to say that because I think it wouldn’t be like that if everyone wasn’t so headstrong with their approach to music. I think that’s the reason that it becomes quite diverse genre-wise just because ultimately there’s more than one vision that’s being portrayed in this band. Then sometimes it’ll be the same with Perrin (Perrin Moss), who’ll bring in something that’s quite strong and we’ll all follow his vision. Nai, on one hand, will sometimes write entire songs from scratch and have really strong ideas about all the parts and we’ll all play those and then other times she’ll bring in a rough sketch. It’s just that thing where everyone’s really creative in the project and everyone’s quite headstrong about the sound so they want to bring forward the songs that they want to create. It’s got both sides but there’s always a balance. It can be a blessing to be in a democratic project but also a curse. So you know that everyone’s got their own interpretation of how it goes and generally whoever’s got the strongest interpretation kind of leads the way if that makes sense. Someone would bring an idea in and the music will kind of speak to everyone in the way that it does. I think it’s a very song-by-song specific thing. How do you usually settle on a particular sound when writing music? It’s difficult to pinpoint your exact genre as it moves seamlessly between jazz, hip hop, swing, soul to electronic. It’s difficult to say that the music has grown because it’s just going in the direction that it wants to go. With that in mind, it’s kind of hard to pinpoint what it is that we do when we write. You still create from your life experiences and you’re always going to have pretty crazy things that are going on in your life, so I think the good thing about Hiatus is that there are no limitations to the way that we write and the things that we write about. Everyone’s just going through pretty major personal things in that time, but the music and the way that we write and the way that everyone’s creative, I don’t think it’s changed that much. I got married and Bender (Paul Bender) bought a warehouse to make a studio. Nai (Nai Palm) went through breast cancer and has fought that and came out on the good side which is fantastic. We’ve been tracking and recording this new record for a number of years and personally, everyone went through some crazy shit. We got home and we sort of started working on the new record as soon as we got home. You’re on the road so much and playing so many shows – it’s an incredible thing to do but it also definitely changes you. So I think that was one thing that everyone was really hungry to come home and do. And everyone in the band is quite expressive, creative and likes to work on new stuff all the time and it’s a difficult thing to be creative on the road outside of the gig. I think that really made us get quite hungry to come home and work on new music because we were just playing the same music over and over. We did a couple of years touring around the world and that was a big life-changing thing to do because it’s pretty insane going for big tours and for a number of years, it can really change your view on the industry and change the way you think reality works. I guess when we dropped “Choose Your Weapon” we went into a pretty big touring slog. It’s been 6 years since your last release “Choose Your Weapon”. We had the opportunity to speak with Simon Mavin about how they have evolved from “Choose Your Weapon”, the opportunities laid out with NFTs and working with Arthur Verocai in their newest album. It’s best to describe them as genre-fluid as their music moves seamlessly between genres, and that’s exactly how they were able to catch everyone’s attention – being nominated for two GRAMMYs in the process. That is not the case with Hiatus Kaiyote, the Melbourne-based band consisting of Nai Palm (vocals, guitar), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keyboards) and Perrin Moss (drums, percussion). Especially when we start hearing familiar sounds that we had listened to moments before. When hearing music, it is often that we try to put a finger on which genre it belongs to.
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