After spending much of the last few years turning out a wealth of vibrant offerings, Chicago-based outfit The Weekend Run Club are now looking to cement this era within their tenure with their eagerly-awaited new album 'Liminal Space Race'.
Brimming with more of that bright and dynamic indie-rock appeal they are known for, this new nine-track collection makes for an incredibly absorbing listen. With its bold and driven hooks, soaring atmosphere, and mesmerising vocals layered throughout, 'Liminal Space Race' continues their ascent as one of the more impactful names on the rise right now.
So with the new album available to stream now, we sat down with them to find out more about their origins and influences over the years.
What was the first band or artist you fell in love with?
Mitchell: The first artist I truly got really into was Panic! At The Disco, primarily for their first album as a teen
Xack: I can’t say for certain the very first, but the first meaningful obsession for me was Metallica. I started playing music because I wanted to play Metallica covers with my cousin.
Did you ever form a band when you were younger and if so, what did they sound like?
Mitchell: The Weekend Run Club is actually my first band ever! I grew up singing musical theater and classical music
Xack: I’ve formed several “bands” that were essentially me and one or two other people jamming when I was super young. The first band I was in that played in front of people was a first Green Day turned Fall Out Boy cover band that tried writing songs along those lines. The first real band I was in was a punk band who I recorded a demo when I was maybe fourteen which is still on my Bandcamp to this day, and I’ve tried to catalog every record I’ve made since on there.
What has been your primary inspiration in writing music?
Mitchell: Writing music is about self-discovery and revelation. I want to put down my thoughts and feelings in the most relatable and direct way possible. I’ve never been one to care a ton about the genre, though my personal tastes always lean towards rock, alternative, and punk, even though we’re an indie band.
Xack: In my 20+ years of writing I would struggle to nail down a single inspiration that covers the entire time suitably, but I can say that what continues to push me to keep writing seems to be some strange unstoppable compulsion to create regardless of circumstance in order to soothe some specter secretly haunting my brain. I simply write what I can because I must. I’m not convinced it’s not technically a problem, but I can’t be mad with the results.
What is a song you wish you had written yourself?
Mitchell: Anything by Pierce the Veil. Their song structures, harmony, and production techniques blow me away with every single release. Emergency Contact and Jaws of Life off of their last album were some of my favorites this year.
Xack: Living Together by Circa Survive. I’ve been listening to that band for years and I still don’t have the first clue as to how they could possibly conjure the sound that they do. Not to mention that the line “He makes it up as it goes; it goes away.” can easily summarize my answer to the previous question. I didn’t get the album art for that record tattooed on me for nothing.
If there was any moment in your career you could relive, what would it be?
Mitchell: The deeper I go into this, the more I realize that nothing really matters to me outside of how I’m feeling day to day. The earliest days of this band had so much wonder, excitement, hope, and most importantly, naivety. I wish I could go back and stress less about our first single which has seen the most numerical ‘success’ out of any of our songs thus far.
Xack: Every time my brain has turned off and my hands kept working and I got to look out and see everyone singing along to whatever song we happen to be playing and you get that feeling of pure instinctual primal joy where there’s truly no thoughts happening at all and all you experience is a connection with the broader hive mind in the room that interconnects all peoples. That feeling is the high I’ve been chasing all my life and it’s so nice to occasionally get to taste it.
Which artist would you most love to share a stage with?
Mitchell: Adam Lambert - his voice is one of my absolute favorites and I could not imagine what it would feel like to sing together with him
Xack: I would love to be able to come out and do a guest vocal spot for the Title Fight reunion show that’s probably never going to happen. That would rule. If I got to choose which song it would be I’d have to say either ‘Stab’ or ‘You Can’t Say Kingston Doesn’t Love You’.
And is there an artist you would love to collaborate with as well?
Mitchell: WATERMEDOWN is the artist who got me into songwriting, so I’d love to be able to sing on one of their tracks sometime
Xack: I’m going to again bring up the dudes in Circa Survive mostly because I would love to solve the mystery of how they’re possibly able to craft the songs that they do. The way they piece things together is incomprehensible to my brain. Either them or Pink Floyd in the 70’s. Could you imagine writing with them post-Darkside pre-Wall and helping to contribute to something like Animals? The Sound of Animals Fighting is also an honorable mention.
Where do you see yourself in five years time?
Mitchell: I do not think about this. I hope I’m a decent person with people who love me. I hope I’m still singing too.
Xack: I’m not even sure where I’ll be in five months time. I keep my schedule open ish in case of (( p o s s i b i l i t i e s )). So, realistically, probably still writing songs and playing shows and hanging out with my immortal cat living somewhere cozy with my beautiful partner still trying to make records and connect and collaborate with as many people as possible while still probably working some sort of fake job with modestly garbage wages just so I can continue to write songs and play shows and…You get the idea. Everything I’ve ever done in my entire life has been in service of allowing me to continue to write, record, and perform, so wherever I may be in the next five years, I can guarantee you that I’ll still be trying to do everything I can to write, record, and perform, in order to satiate the endlessly starving entity that haunts my head and hunger for creative expression. It’s the only way I’ve learned how to survive.
The Weekend Run Club's new album 'Liminal Space Race' is out now. Listen to it below.
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