The Skints
Interview with Josh "Their new album Part & Parcel is fantastic, their live shows are also....fantastic, this band is in short awesome, and their music is a style that we think the music scene really needs more of at the moment. As well as their new album release, the band will shortly be heading out on the road with the huge You Me At Six to win over some new followers, so read on below, as 2012 might just be The Skints biggest year yet!" So you guys recently got involved with Pledge Music to help support your new album Part & Parcel, can you tell us abit about how this idea came about, and how well this process worked for your band? Yeah, basically at the start of 2011 we were chatting to a couple of labels about putting out the new record, but we couldn't really work out a situation with who we were talking to. We didn't want an A&R down at the studio telling us how their label thinks The Skints record should sound, our producer and our band members musical input is all that matters to us! So our manager found out about Pledgemusic and hooked us up with them, and with the help of our followers we raised our studio money in 11 days.
Your new album Part & Parcel is now out, for those who have not picked up the record yet (crazy people) can you tell them what they should expect from the album? You can expect the result of the hardest work any of us have put in to anything! Four young people from northeast London writing honest, original songs with a juicy twist and a sprinkle of Jamaican music from the last 50 years.
How would you say this record compares to your last album release? I think our songwriting and general musicianship has come on so much in the last 2 years that it's kinda tough to compare the 2 records. I'd say the songs are alot more riddim based than the first record, and the bass is gonna mess you up.
Lyric wise, what are the main themes or influences that run through Part & Parcel? I think between Marcia, Jamie and myself, we went alot more personal on this album. Alot of stories about ourselves and our friends and "the world through the eyes of The Skints" points of view. There's definitely more relationship based songs on Part & Parcel, but we can only write about our own experiences, and that's the kind of thing that's gone down!