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Every Time I Die talks about New Junk Aesthetic on AUX TV’s HARD

by Theo Kapodistrias

Buffalo New York’s resident ‘shitty dudes’ Every Time I Die played the main stage at this year’s Warped Tour to promote their latest release, the critically acclaimed New Junk Aesthetic. Being the band’s 5th studio album The New Junk Aesthetic proves that Every Time I Die has the ability to consistently release quality records and confirms the relevance of the band in a perpetually changing and fickle music scene.

“I think the band with the New Junk Aesthetic was really just trying to hit the ground running as far as the relationship that we had established with Steve Evens producing The Big Dirty,” said ETID vocalist Keith Buckley. “That was our first [record] with him and he absolutely had proven to us that he understood our sound and what we were going for—so when we wrote New Junk Aesthetic I think that we wanted to make it just a little faster, harder, and a little more live sounding.”

Buckley’s clever and unique lyrics define Every Time I Die’s sound. When asked about the lyrical themes in the New Junk Aesthetic, Keith explained that he feels that the worries that come along with aging in a youth oriented scene was the premise of the record. “The truth is that we’re getting older and the scene is getting younger. So I think ‘just trying to stay afloat’ is the dominating theme in the lyrics. This year I got married and I bought a house, and I’m getting to the point where I’m like ‘wow, I’m not a kid anymore, I’m an adult that’s trying to make a career out of this’; and the worries that come with it, the self doubt, and self deprecation. [Those themes] have always been there, they’re coming out a little more eloquent this time around.”

You can see a full interview with Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die tonight on a new episode of HARD tonight at 10pm ET.