BURN ING LOVE
Interview between Joel Wadsworth of Ancient Shores and Chris
DIY spaces. The exchange rate sucked, the kids ruled, the shows were great, and we got to spend some extra days at the end in New Zealand, hanging ten with sharks and seeing the sights. Joel: What have you been jamming lately? Any new records coming out soon you’re particularly excited about? Chris: Really excited on “Honor Found in Decay” by Neurosis. Otherwise, the new Swans LP The Seer. Probably the darkest thing they’ve ever done, and that’s saying a lot. I’ve been listening to that a ton lately, and a box set of this Zambian 70’s band W.I.T.C.H. that I snagged on tour. Joel: Lyrically, Songs for Burning Lovers seems to deal with more personal things but Rotten Thing to Say feels like its bringing you back into the grit of the world as a whole especially with Joel: The last time we played together was in Baltimore on July 4th on the Southern Lord tour. The show was great but the thing that I always have to tell people about was the foam party that was going on in the building at the same time. You ventured into the party didn’t you? Chris: Hah. Yes, I sure did. It was the very end of the night, and it was the last night for the club (Sonar). There were so many different kinds of cops outside - marked, unmarked, on horses, paddy wagons, I had to know what goes down in those things. It was wet, and wild. Joel: How was Australia/ New Zealand? Did you guys kill any vans down there? Chris: It was fantastic. No, we didn’t kill any vans or airplanes. We played with a pile of great bands in good rooms, record stores and
Colohan of Burning Love
Hateful Comforts and Pig City I & II. Would you say that you’re moving back into the darker territory of society and politics with your lyrics? Chris: Not intentionally but yeah, I think that stuff always involuntarily creeps back into my head and writing content whether I try to stop it or not, and what is this all for but creating dialogue and venting your frustrations, right? Pig City I & II are specifically about Toronto and it’s current regime. Hateful Comforts was something I was trying to write for a few years about not trusting the skindeep democratic / optimistic shift of the west in the past 5 years, in light of the mob mentality and the xenophobic excesses of the post 9-11 years. I’m gonna cut that rant off right there. Joel: Initially hearing Karla I found it extremely easy to hum along to. When I finally sat down with the Black Widow EP