tunesday – six questions with automatic
Get to know Halle Saxon and Izzy Glaudini – two thirds of the Los Angeles rock trio Automatic.
How’d you all meet? Halle Saxon: I met Lola at a music festival in 2014 and I met Izzy in line for the bathroom at a party, where she helped me use Find My iPhone for the first time.
What are the best and worst aspects of the LA music scene? Halle: The worst aspects have to do with this whole hierarchy, which breeds social climbing and fakeness. Being seen at this place or that – it’s exhausting. The best aspects are that there are plenty of like-minded individuals who see through that as well.
Izzy Glaudini: LA is a sprawling city with a lot of mid-sized/smaller venues for bands to play. There’s probably a show every night, and we don’t take that for granted.
How did you find your sound? Izzy: I don’t think we had a choice in our sound in the beginning. It started as a total lack of technique, combined with a desire to copy our musical favourites.
How do you feel about using music to explore meaty topics? Halle: If it’s something that comes naturally to you and you want to express it, then you should.
Izzy: Music can be about a personal inner world, or an external, more overtly political one. I don’t believe in rules for creativity: people can write from whatever place they want. It’s hard to ignore climate change and the rise of neo-fascism, though – at a certain point, these things intervene on your ‘personal’ artistic perspective.
What’s your preferred way to write a song? Halle: In the practice space with Lola and Izzy, and within 15 minutes something cool happens and the song just pours out.
Do you have any tour rituals? Halle: Bring a book, leave it in the bottom of my suitcase and never open it.
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