INTERVIEW: Lindsey Verrill Taps Doomsynth For Little Mazarn
Little Mazarn's Lindsey Verrill checks in with us to explain her influences and the emotions that drove the album's fearless vulnerability on the band's new album Mustang Island.
Little Mazarn have given us a triumph of an album with Mustang Island. As I wrote last week, the album guides us through cycles of grief and deliverance with adventurous, free-flowing music. Lindsey Verrill checked in with us to explain her influences and the emotions that drove the album's fearless vulnerability.
Who are some of your musical influences?
I am deeply influenced by my friends, my local community, culture at large, and the natural world.
Name a perfect song and tell us why you feel that way.
I have been thinking about the jazz standard ‘Misty’ a lot lately. I love the first 3 notes.
Does your album have an overarching theme?
This album was made during a huge and painful transition in my life. I didn’t go into it with a plan for a theme or anything like that but looking back, I think it’s about moving through that, surviving it, and making peace with what’s next.
Explain the title of your album, Mustang Island.
I felt like the album was going to be gloomy and I wanted to create a bit of fun and dungeon synth whimsy so I made this song ‘Mustang Island’ and it ended up being such a totem of joy that needed to be the album title.
Do you have any songwriting tips you can share?
Write often and practice self trust. Set the critic aside and be silly and raw. Handicap yourself, use household objects or instruments you aren’t familiar with. Abandon rhyme or rhyme all the time.
