On object 1 it sounds like you all lean into the more aggressive, heavy aspects of your music while vocally it sounds more self-assured. I would even say the first two singles are more accessible than past releases. What are some things that have contributed to the band’s progression since the last album in 2023? 

I think a huge thing that pushed Flooding forward was shifting the perspective on how to write a cathartic song. I got more inspired by pop music than I had ever been while writing the EP and it made me realize that there are a lot of different ways to elicit a visceral feeling through music. Flooding has always been all about using extreme dynamics to make that happen and we still do that. But our last album also achieved that through intuitive song structure, which created a lot of linear, story-like songs that were sometimes drawn out for pretty long. With this EP, pop structure really spoke to me because of how pop songs are literally formulated to give you the maximum emotional reaction, which felt appropriate to incorporate with the dynamics of Flooding. It also felt fitting to write hook-forward songs with the themes of the EP. 

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