ZHU’s Reside-Band, Whats up Sure, Return with ‘Misplaced Sign’ EP [Interview]

Whats up Sure was born on the street whereas guitarist Mitch Bell and saxophonist Aaron Leibowitz had been touring with digital artist ZHU, with whom they're at present packing stadiums with in assist of Swedish Home Mafia. The sound is novel, conjuring Mitch’s smokey, but subtle guitar and Aaron’s gut-jerking saxophone into compositions that might be described as indie groove meets electro membership.

Now, they’re out with their latest EP on Gravitas, Misplaced Sign.

This new EP brings in groovy home vibes blended with their signature guitar/sax parts for an ideal mixture. After their debut reside present at Lightning in a Bottle, followers have been wanting to get their palms on these unreleased dancefloor anthems, and Whats up Sure is able to share these with the world.

Pay attention under and preserve scrolling for our interview with the duo.

So far as I can keep in mind, it’s not that frequent for the band of an artist to in a while type their very own group. How and when did the concept for Whats up Sure first take form?

Ya, I feel you’re proper. Bands like The Wailers or The Heartbreakers shaped on account of Bob Marley and Tom Petty beginning and being part of their respective bands. Nonetheless, the Eagles had been born from being the backing band for Linda Ronstadt. So, ya… Whats up Sure shaped within the downtime between festivals and excursions with Zhu round January 2018. We had been already collaborating on music with Zhu, so the inventive vitality naturally flowed into a few of our personal concepts.

Your sound is clearly influenced by ZHU, however by no means sounds prefer it’s imitating him. How did you navigate that line between inspiration and imitation?

We’ve realized so much about digital music and the scene by merely being round Z. He’s a real grasp at what he's doing. His type is exclusive, and it might be fairly apparent if we tried to repeat his sound. Our experiences with him have helped form what Whats up Sure at present is, however we even have years of expertise and influences outdoors of digital music. We love connecting all of those items of data and inspiration that resonate right into a sound that's “Whats up Sure.”

With a lot of your music utilizing reside devices, did you discover it arduous to report/write/produce on the street or was most of that saved for if you had downtime?

Songs like “Out Of My Thoughts” and “By no means Trusted Me” began as concepts whereas on the street. One was in Tennessee, and the opposite was in Montana. We recorded a bunch of voice memos melody concepts after which completed them again house later. We began “The Lesson” from scratch and just about completed in Ronny’s LA storage studio. “Peace Of Thoughts” began as a laptop computer beat on a flight to Denver, then we labored out the sax and vocal concepts at my home in Oklahoma. Different occasions, I’ll ship Ronny a guitar loop to mess with, or Ronny will ship me a demo to rearrange and add sounds to. In the end, the perfect concepts rise to the highest, and we fiddle with them till we really feel like they're full.

How did you find yourself going with Gravitas for the discharge of your Misplaced Sign EP?

Misplaced Sign shall be our 2nd EP launch with Gravitas. Grav has been within the bass area for a minute now with artists like Clozee and Beats Vintage. They actually get the tradition behind the sound greater than most and have been an ideal first accomplice. It’s so necessary, particularly early on, to have a accomplice that believes in what you might be doing and sees the larger imaginative and prescient for it so they can assist nudge it the appropriate course, which they've been capable of do.

Do you foresee a time when Whats up Sure opens for ZHU on tour, otherwise you guys tour by yourself aside from ZHU? You’ve already collaborated with artists like THEY, Tame Impala, and Jason Mraz.

We love touring with everybody on the Zhu workforce and are excited for future excursions. Everybody on his workforce is a category act. As Whats up Sure, we’d like to play exhibits in any capability and are working to construct that a part of our world. So preserve an eye fixed out for us in 2023! And yeah, if Kevin Parker ever needs us to leap on tour with Tame Impala…we're able to go 🙂