{"id":4490,"date":"2012-06-22T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T01:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2012-06-22T19:40:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T01:40:54","slug":"first-class-riot-qna-with-nu-sensae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/06\/22\/first-class-riot-qna-with-nu-sensae\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST CLASS RIOT: Q\u2019n\u2019A with N\u00fc Sensae"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto of N\u00fc Sensae by Taylor Burgess in Calgary, Alberta.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Taylor Burgess<\/p>\n

Bubbling out of Vancouver\u2019s fertile and molting noise\/punk\/hardcore\/etc. scene, N\u00fc Sensae<\/a> are one of loudest onslaughts which reaffirm doom and gloom exists in these optimistic times. Core duo Daniel Pitout and Andrea Lukic were joined late last year by guitarist Brody McKnight, former Mutator<\/a>, and they all joined forces to make their new record, Sundowning<\/a><\/em>, which is looming to drop on Suicide Squeeze records for August 7. (\u201cI know,\u201d Brody McKnight says, \u201cit\u2019s a big deal.\u201d) Here\u2019s a track from that album, and then after the jump there\u2019s an interview from the back alley of the Ship and Anchor after their last show of Sled Island Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

N\u00fc Sensae – Swim<\/a>
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Stylus: How many of the songs did you write together? When you were getting together, what kind of process was it? What headspace did you put yourselves in?<\/strong>
\n Brody McKnight:<\/strong> We just wanted to write songs that we liked playing live, just songs that were fun for us.
\nStylus: What elements of a song make you want to play that song?<\/strong>
\nAndrea Lukic:<\/strong> Personally I like songs that build up. For a lot of our songs, we try to do that, in a minimal way, you know? They\u2019re not like long jams or anything. There\u2019s a little bit of momentum\u2014a build or a progression of something.
\nDaniel Pitout:<\/strong> With this album\u2014before it was like we would write songs throughout a long process of time, and then compile an album. For this one, we took months off. We wrote the album for something like six months. So we took time off from playing shows, which we had never done before, and we basically started from scratch. We were thinking up different types of songs that we wanted to have on it. So I think it has more of an album feel than our last album, because each song was specifically put on and placed for a different reason.
\nStylus: What keeps you all going? What makes you do these crazy tours? What makes you record albums? Why do you keep going\u2014just why?<\/strong>
\nBM:<\/strong> Well I\u2019m on EI right now, so it\u2019s pretty easy for me. That\u2019s kinda it. I don\u2019t have to take any time off work.
\nAL:<\/strong> There\u2019s really no other way to see the states, because we make enough for gas at least. If you did a road trip it\u2019d just be coming out of your pocket, and you probably wouldn\u2019t hit all of these spots anyway.
\nBM:<\/strong> We have lots of friends around the states now. So it\u2019s nice to see them.
\nDP:<\/strong> I think tours\u2014it\u2019s work, it\u2019s not like you\u2019re on vacation, but I think there\u2019s nothing better than touring. It feels really magical. No matter what kind of a tour you do, whether you book it yourself and it\u2019s lame and no one goes, it\u2019s still a really magical feeling that you\u2019re going around the country and getting paid to do something that\u2019s really personal to you and people are into it. I used to think it\u2019s a weird secret. Once you do it and you know how fun it is, and how easy it is\u2014I mean everyone knows that know\u2014you can just do it yourself. It feels like this weird secret that everyone knows about.
\nStylus: Are you finding new people coming to your show, or is it like the same 15 people in every town? Do you think there are new people to be reached?<\/strong>
\nDP:<\/strong> It varies\u2014depends on every city we play. There are some cities where it will be better every time, like, way more people or people that don\u2019t seem like they\u2019d be into us that are into us.
\nStylus: What kind of city would that be?<\/strong>
\nDP:<\/strong> Bigger cities, Boston, New York. Actually, I feel that every time we play here, it gets\u2014something is different or better. I think there\u2019s always a show where someone says, \u201cOh, this is the first time I\u2019ve seen you,\u201d it\u2019s not like the same people every time. When you play certain small towns in the states like\u2026
\nAL:<\/strong> Bakersfield.
\nDP:<\/strong> Bakersfield, California, yeah, there\u2019s only such an amount of kids that live there that are interested in anything alternative at all. But those are the best shows too, because then you\u2019re going to play for this group of ten friends who you never see and they\u2019re there every single time. So that\u2019s also really cool.
\nStylus: Brody, you\u2019re relatively new to the band, so, what do you think the reach of Nu Sensae has been before you joining the band, and what you\u2019ve seen afterwards too?<\/strong>
\nBM:<\/strong> I\u2019ve heard just all positive stuff from people, like, more of a fuller sound.
\nStylus: If you could estimate, or quantify\u2014how many people know about Nu Sensae?<\/strong>
\nAL:<\/strong> Uhhhh\u2026 [mockingly]<\/em> About ten billion.
\nBM:<\/strong> Well, I drove them on their very first tour in 2008, and they played at a pizza place\u2014and I think I opened up for you guys\u2014but there was like, three people there. But now there\u2019s more than three, and maybe that has something to do with me, or maybe not.
\nDP:<\/strong> Sorry, I wanted to say, you had asked me about do people know that they can tour. If you don\u2019t know you can tour, it\u2019s really easy. And maybe you think it\u2019s really hard, but it\u2019s there\u2019s (unless you\u2019re trying to be a pop singer or something) but there\u2019s punk houses in every city of the world that are willing to let you play any show, and it\u2019s like email address or Facebook\u2014it\u2019s like anybody can tour any show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo of N\u00fc Sensae by Taylor Burgess in Calgary, Alberta. By Taylor Burgess Bubbling out of Vancouver\u2019s fertile and molting noise\/punk\/hardcore\/etc. scene, N\u00fc Sensae are one of loudest onslaughts which reaffirm doom and gloom exists in these optimistic times. Core duo Daniel Pitout and Andrea Lukic were joined late last year by guitarist Brody McKnight, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[683,869,870],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-live-bait","tag-nu-sensae","tag-sled-island","tag-sled-island-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}