It’s like me and country music: My girlfriend likes it, but I can’t stand it. Some people just don’t want to embrace a new genre because they don’t know it. We don’t want to just focus on the guitar nerds.ĭo you still find that some traditional shred fans are resistant to what you’re doing? Are they coming around a little? It’s cool to see girls are liking it, because let’s face it, that’s just cool. SCOTT LEPAGE: We don’t sit around and say, “Hey, let’s do something to bring chicks out to the shows.” We just try to make music everybody will enjoy. We have 50 people on stage a lot of times, and a lot of girls. We do this thing called “mobbing,” where we bring people on stage with us, a whole crowd. TIM HENSON: Yeah, that’s awesome, isn’t it? It’s definitely, you know, inspiring. ![]() ![]() It’s not surprising that you guys don’t seem to draw the typical shred crowd at your shows. When you go in with that kind of mindset, you’re bound to be fucking awesome.” “If we had one overarching goal in making this record, it was to do whatever we like, and what we like happens to be the shit. “I have to say, we killed it on this album,” Henson says confidently. And as for the album’s tour de force, “Nasty,” it’s a genre-defying hotbed of jagged chords and spindly leads that is capped off by Richardson’s outer-limits soloing. “G.O.A.T.” is a trance-inducing array of shimmering, ethereal harmonics that dance about like fireflies on a hot summer night. “O.D.” comes at you like a whirling dervish of lethal lines and savage rhythmic blows before it settles, albeit briefly, into a late-Eighties-style slow jam. Expertly guided by hip-hop/pop producers Y2K (Killy, Yung Bans) and Judge (Migos & Marshmello, Young Thug), the album features bracing guitar work by Henson and LePage along with a host of axe-wielding guests (among them are Ichika, Mateus Asato and Jason Richardson) on a wild pack of sonic creations that just don’t behave like normal songs. So the only way to keep shred alive was to kill it and bring it back to life our own way.” He snickers somewhat fiendishly, then says, “It kind of pisses people off, but we’re having fun, so fuck it.”ĭespite the online gripes and raspberries for The Most Hated, Henson and Le Page love the disc, so, along with bassist Clay Gober and drummer Clay Aeschliman (two guys named Clay in one band - that’s a first), they aimed to replicate its trap and EDM foundations on New Levels New Devils while emphasizing guitars, bass and acoustic drums. ![]() Shred doesn’t have hip-hop beats, electronica shit and hooks, but that’s the stuff we love, so we went for it. “We started out as more of a shred band, but we put the brakes on that. “We just try to make music that we like,” he observes. His six-string co-conspirator, Scott LePage, is slightly more circumspect in analyzing Polyphia’s radical approach to instrumental shred, one that ditches the genre’s traditional focus on traditional rock rhythms for a hallucinogenic mélange of beats and soundscapes that comes off, at times, as decidedly anti-rock. If I were a kid, we would be my favorite band. “I think we’re very, very good.” He pauses, then adds with a laugh, “No, I think we’re great. “I listen to our records all the time,” he says. Not one given to subtlety - or modesty - Henson doesn’t refrain from singing his own band’s praises.
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