As we kick 2024 out the door and welcome 2025 with open arms, join us for a series of interviews with artists who’ve braved the year’s riffs, breakdowns, and questionable soundchecks. We’re diving into their triumphs, challenges, and everything that kept the music industry alive and kicking. We sat down with indie rock act FLUSH to hear how they experienced 2024.
Hi there! Thanks so much for answering these questions. This is a little recap of 2024, so let’s start with the obvious what did Flush do in 2024?
Well, for starters, we recorded an album! For an indie rock band like us, this is quite an achievement. Our focus this year has been on the album, but we played a few good shows too, and hope to focus more on the live stuff in the new year. We play an album release show on Saturday, November 30th at Bar Loose and it’s going to be epic! Our show at Bar Loose in Spring was sold out so we expect a good party this time too.
What were some of your biggest highlights in 2024?
We can’t refer to the album in every answer, so let’s mention the music videos and our new logo. Working with our friend Pedro Bergamo on the logo and the videos has been an absolute delight, and he is a core extension of the band. “Headspinner” is a true piece of art, being both backwards and done in one shot, and we’re proud and happy it turned out so cool.
You also released some new music and by the time this is published, you will have also released an album. What can you tell our readers about the album? What can they expect while listening to it?
“Noises” is our second full-length album and it was released worldwide by Wormholedeath Records. It’s a collection of songs that really well represent FLUSH sonically and lyrically. Riffs, sing-along choruses, stop-starts, and occasional space jams are still our thing, and we continue telling stories about anxiety, depression, drinking, love, heartbreak, death, politics, and space satellites. We recorded the album in four days with Owe Inborr at Wolfthrone Studios in June. It was a hot and sweaty week, and having the whole band tightly together makes the album coherent and a real band effort.
What were some of the biggest challenges you went through while creating the album?
We had to record the album twice! We had everything almost ready for mastering by the end of 2023, but “things” happened and we lost access to all the material. Eventually, we then took the hard decision to record everything again and use the opportunity to do it better. Since this is not our profession (yet), a full-length album is quite an effort, and doing it twice was not how we envisioned things to work. But in the end, we have an album we are proud of and no regrets about how it turned out.
What does FLUSH have in store for us in 2025?
We definitely want to do lots of live shows, ideally in some new places. Most of the music is written for a rock club stage and our whole existence is about the connections happening at live shows. We’ve got many ideas for new material too, but haven’t fully gotten into writing yet as we want to get the album our first and then play some gigs with it.
Interview by Laureline Tilkin
