Music Talk with Robbie Russell
B! 15
I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT IT’S OKAY TO
EXPRESS YOURSELF.
BRASH! What role has
seasonal depression
played in your personal life
and music?
RR: It affects me every year.
I always know when it’s
coming, to the extent where I
feel like I need to have fun
and enjoy myself before it
sets in. I’m a songwriter, so
I’m already more emotional
and self-aware than the
majority of people. When that
seasonal depression sets in it
can actually be pretty
crippling, but it can also be
motivating. It’s helped me
create some of my best
music to be honest. I was in
an extremely dark place
when I created ‘The Bad
Guy.’ but it’s one of my most
popular projects to date. It’s
more about learning how to
work with the seasonal
depression rather than letting
it defeat you.
BRASH! Do you have any
shows/visual releases
coming up soon to
promote the project?
RR: I’m hopefully going to
have some shows lined up
for early 2020, but as of right
now I’m not really looking to
release any new content. I
really want to take some
time to focus on bettering
myself and my writing so
that I can get back to
recording and building up
my catalog. I also say I’m
BRASH! How important is it to you to use your music
not going to release
to uplift the world?
anything new, but I know
RR: I don’t know about necessarily uplifting the world
myself and I get stir crazy so
because I tend to make some pretty heavy music, but the
I’ll probably release some
one thing I do know is that I want to make people feel
new content by the end of
something. I want people to know that it’s okay to express
the year.
yourself. It’s okay to be vulnerable and to be emotional.
It’s okay to FEEL. 9 times out of 10, someone else out
there has felt the same things that you have. You’re not
BEFORE I'M
alone and I want people to know that.
BRASH! Out of the 6-songs on the EP, which track
affects you the most?
RR: They’re all so special to me, but I’d have to say the
title track ‘ELYSIUM’ affects me the most. It’s such a
happy, uplifting song. It’s probably the most positive song
I’ve ever done. It was actually written over 2 years ago,
but I was in such a dark, emotional space that I never felt
motivated enough to record it. It took me until this summer
to finally break out of that space, record it and release it. I
knew it was one of my best songs, I just never felt like the
timing was right until this year.
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