{"id":4010,"date":"2012-04-12T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2012-04-12T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:54:22","slug":"your-ears-gotta-eat-too-food-for-thought-with-viridians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/04\/12\/your-ears-gotta-eat-too-food-for-thought-with-viridians\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Ears Gotta Eat Too :: Food for Thought with Viridians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nby Victoria King<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local act Viridians release their debut full-length album at the Lo Pub on April 12th. We sat down with Neil Exell and Joseph P\u00e9loquin-Hopfner of Viridians at Carlos & Murphy\u2019s and ended up with a hankering for their sweet new music. And nachos.<\/em><\/p>\n

Neil Exell:<\/strong> Homemade goods. Can\u2019t beat that. Everything\u2019s factory now.
\nJoseph P\u00e9loquin-Hopfner:<\/strong> Yep, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Stylus: Could that be applied to your music as well? Homemade goods?
\nNE:<\/strong> Our music is 100 per cent homemade \u00a0. . . through instruments made mostly in factories. That\u2019s our approach.
\nJPH: Yeah. \u201cHome-composed,\u201d I \u2018spose you could say.<\/p>\n

Stylus: Makes it sound like a recipe, eh?
\nJPH:<\/strong> That\u2019s a pretty good analogy actually. Every song is a different type of meal. There are several different, definitely \u201cheavy carb\u201d meals in our songs . . .
\nNE: <\/strong>Yeah, and we know how to achieve the desired result. Like, \u201cAwe this isn\u2019t sticking together, and we need some more egg,\u201d and we know that egg part for us, and we know how to make that little ambiance happen.
\nJPH: <\/strong>Yeah, our kitchen is kind of special. We don\u2019t really know what the end result is going to be. Sometimes it\u2019s an omelette but we didn\u2019t know it was going to be an omelette and other times it\u2019s like some type of . . . delicate dessert that\u2019s very precise, and baked . . . Yes. And we didn\u2019t know, but it turns out pretty good.
\nNE: <\/strong>Always.<\/p>\n

Stylus: And in an omelette, you can put in so many things.
\nJPH: <\/strong>That\u2019s true . . .
\nNE: <\/strong> I can\u2019t say \u201cequally necessary,\u201d but my consumption of food and my consumption of music probably match one another on a daily basis.
\nJPH:<\/strong> Like you consume about 2000 calories of music per day?
\nNE:<\/strong> Yeah, at least. And I feel like I start my mornings in a similar way, where I need to consume some sort of breakfast but I also have a music breakfast. Like what am I gonna listen to when I walk to the bus, or as I get dressed? Makes a big difference to your day.
\nJPH:<\/strong> Your ears gotta eat too.<\/p>\n

Stylus: What do you pair together, food and music wise?
\nNE: <\/strong>I mean, it depends on the dining experience more than the food, I think. So if we\u2019re having, barbecued meats . . . you\u2019re definitely thinking more of a thrash metal vibe, something that\u2019s meaty and heavy but still playful and pretty silly as an end result. But then maybe you\u2019re dining on some nice ravioli with a spinach mix and some red wine vinaigrette, then you\u2019re going to go for something really light, a little bit of ambient music.
\nJPH: <\/strong>And then sometimes you gotta go for a glass of wine and some Sigur Ros. After a long day at work, or long week . . . And to go back to that high carb thing, sometimes you just gotta go back for that second bowl of pasta, you know \u2013 some heavy music can definitely be consumed more than once, if there\u2019s not too much cheese on it but just enough sauce and enough pasta.
\nNE:<\/strong> Totally. That\u2019s like Isis. Like, when you haven\u2019t eaten for six hours and you think, \u2018I need the biggest bowl of pasta I can get,\u201d that\u2019s Isis: I need a nine-minute epic that just never ends, and gets bigger. Perpetually.<\/p>\n

[SERVER WALKS BY WITH A BIG PLATE OF NACHOS]<\/em><\/p>\n

NE:<\/strong> As we watch the Nachos go by . . . what are the nachos?
\nJPH:<\/strong> Hardcore, man, for sure . . .
\nNE:<\/strong> I was thinking almost like, sludgy metal, because the cheese is dripping and it\u2019s like, something that\u2019s gooey . . . but also gets on your fingers and makes you feel greasy and dirty in the best possible way. That\u2019s how I feel when I\u2019m listening to sludge metal: like I\u2019m getting greasy doing this but in all the right ways.
\nJPH: <\/strong>And you start salivating just thinking about it, before even pressing play . . .<\/p>\n

Stylus: What should people eat as they\u2019re listening to the new album (Again, Dangerous Visions<\/em>)?
\nJPH:<\/strong> Man, there\u2019s definitely some nacho parts in the album . . .
\nNE:<\/strong> I\u2019m leaning more towards a breakfast vibe . . . Maybe like a breakfast sandwich, because you have all of these meal pieces reappropriated into a lunch item, but put for breakfast. Right? Cause you\u2019ve got your bagel, which is a breakfast staple, and your egg, which is a breakfast staple, but then you\u2019ve got some salad components and maybe your meat as well.
\nJPH:<\/strong> You\u2019re talkin\u2019 a brunch. Like, it can count for a breakfast and a lunch at the same time, and it\u2019ll get you all the way to supper.
\nNE:<\/strong> I think that undeniably we have some meat and potatoes, where it\u2019s heavy and thick, but then we also have a lot of light stuff that goes around it, which would be like fruit that goes around your breakfast. We\u2019ve got those strawberries that sit at the side of the plate, and you pick at them every once and a while.
\nJPH:<\/strong> Yeah, and we\u2019ve got the filler too \u2013 a little bit of onion, a little bit of green pepper, and there\u2019s a little bit of milk from time to time.
\nNE: <\/strong>And the last track definitely ends with a bit of whipped cream. [Laughs] It\u2019s very gratuitous, borderline masturbatory on our part in writing it. It was like, \u201cYeah, yeah, let\u2019s do that. Let\u2019s do it one more time, but twice as slow.\u201d That would definitely be like your \u201ctreat.\u201d
\nJPH: <\/strong>I think breakfast is a really good describer. The core of it, the bagel, takes a lot of prep and specific ingredients, and you need to take time till it\u2019s supreme. But when you bake it, it smells so good.<\/p>\n

Viridians are currently hitting the road hard in support of <\/em>Again, Dangerous Visions. They\u2019ll be back in Winnipeg to serve up tasty portions of tunes for hungry listeners in June.<\/em><\/p>\n

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