tunesday – this or that with loose fit
The Sydney/Warrane-based band spills the beans on what knocks their socks off.
It’s a bad day to be any other punk band, but boy is it a good day to be any punk fan. Loose Fit have blown just about every other bundle of punksters out of the water with their brand-spanking-new EP, Bittersweet Excess. We caught up with the musos to put them to the ultimate test about what they do and don't like. Spoiler alert: they passed, and they sound bloody great all the while.
Performing live or recording in the studio? Kaylene Milner: Why choose? Once we performed live at Phoenix Central Park during COVID – costumes and all – and our only audience was a camera and a studio recording crew.
Touring or playing in your hometown? Max Edgar: Touring! Since 2017, Loose Fit has never not been on tour as we’ve never all lived in the same city at the same time.
Melody or lyrics? Richard Martin: If we use the common songwriting metaphor of a delicious dosa fusion, the song is the batter, the melody is the saucy kimchi scattered throughout it and the lyrics are the fried mushrooms rolled up inside. In a Loose Fit song, every flavour is balanced and the elements are inseparable. Except that the melodies did get separated from the lyrics on the remix EP, and that was really cool.
Making music in the morning or night? Anna Langdon: We are a morning band – many of our highly successful band prac and songwriting sessions have been fuelled by strong coffee and cleansing sunlight. There have been some pretty good ones late at night with everyone hallucinating from exhaustion too. But it is heaps easier to book a rehearsal room during the day.
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Clubs or pubs? Kaylene: (Bowls) clubs.
Music or fashion? Max: The two t-shirt and jeans wearin’ fellas would say we don’t care about fashion, but I’m sure Anna and Kaylene would give us a deserved Miranda Priestly-esque dressing down in response. It’s all art at the end of the day.
Vinyl or digital? Richard: All physical formats are beautiful in their own way, and streaming is too. If you twisted all eight of our arms, we’d probably land on vinyl though. Our new EP is digital-only at this stage but it would be great to see the amazing cover art blown up to 30cm squared. (Amazing art in question: a collab between Anna and our clever friend Bruno Cowen.)
Bitter or sweet? Anna: Bitter. Sweet things are for children.
Get your mitts on Loose Fit’s Bittersweet Excess. After more punky goodness? Feast your ears on the cool stuff by Hot Glue or peruse our chinwag with English rockers Lambrini Girls. Plus, sign up to our newsletter to stay in the loop.
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