Between soundscapes and latent emotions: The introspective journey of End of the World.
The Argentine band, End of the World, has built a musical universe where emotions are intertwined with carefully curated soundscapes. Made up of Yanina, Juliet, Tita and Luciathis group has stood out on the scene for its instrumental approach, loaded with deep lyrics and melodies that cross the states of being. From their first album Everything Goes Towards the Seauntil its most recent creation, We made the forest grow —which will be released this October 18th through Spinda Records—the group continues to expand its ability to create immersive sound experiences that connect with its audience in unexpected ways.
In this interview, we will delve into the creation of this album, the collaborations that enrich it—such as his work with Guille Marble of Eternal Innocence– and how End of the World seeks to transmit hope in the midst of difficulties, both personal and collective. In addition, we will discover how the band has managed to surprise even themselves, by receiving ovations for their instrumental pieces, defying conventional expectations of what a song should be.
With We made the forest growthe band takes us on an emotional journey, where each song seems to have a life of its own. The nostalgic lyrics and intricate melodies immerse us in an introspective space, something that Yanina describes as an essential part of his creative process.
I don't know if we were thinking about 'transmitting'. With music it is always transmitted, I think we grew a lot because we started to know each other more, everything that was involved in the album process, we were quite involved in each instrument, giving our opinion on what we think of each thing, we are quite detailed in that and the truth is that We noticed it in the process, it was very fun. Mainly us getting to know each other more, trying new things, and generating – something we really like – the environment. The band is mainly instrumental, it has quite exhausted lyrics, but what really interests us is transmitting something more introspective.”
“We go through them like this and it happens to us many times when we present those songs, that we feel that they are attentive, listening, even though they know them, it felt like being in connection with the people,” he revealed. Yanina.
“Something that we thought about and, on purpose, developed in this way, is that in this second work we look for a slightly more positive and hopeful perspective than what we achieved unintentionally in the first material of Everything Goes Towards the Sea, “Many told us that the lyrics were sad and when we were composing this new album, the last song closes with a super hopeful phrase that says 'Something better is going to happen to us.'”
It closes with that message because particularly in Argentina we are experiencing very complicated moments at the country level, which affects each person as a person, we wanted to help and for this album to transmit a message of hope; There are things that can be good even though there are hard times and very low, we can stay afloat. Precisely the concept of the album is a bit like that; go through an extremely difficult situation until reaching a moment of peace and hope. But to get to that, you have to go through difficult times,” concluded Julieta.
To achieve deep introspection and connection in each of the songs, it is necessary to maintain precision within the guitars and drums, where the synchronization of the rhythms and deep lyrics captivate their audience in each of their presentations.
“A journalist described what we were doing as 'cinematic rock,' which refers to being in a movie. “When they tell us that, it doesn't fill the soul, because we look for that, it's not a coincidence, it's not like the songs just come out like that.”
We put it together as if it were a movie: introduction, middle and end. This is almost always the way we work on songs and we visualize each part, we name it situations; for example the 'locomotive' part, because we imagine a train going and that's also good, imagining landscapes when listening to the music,” Tita added.
A theme full of landscapes curated to perfection, where its setting deepens the dynamics in each song; This leads to a great collaboration with Eternal Innocence in “Flower Day”.
“Lucia He is the one who writes the songs and in 'Flower Dayfrom the moment he started singing it, we knew he had to be Guille Marble, It was very magical because we listened to it, we imagined how he was going to sing it in each part,” he revealed. Juliet.
What's more, we had it planned in a certain way and I think it turned out better as it was on the album, than as we had in mind. He is a person who transmits a lot with his voice, he was the one we had to add to the collaboration. He has that emotionality that breaks you sometimes when he is singing and he is great,” Yanina added.
One of the key pieces in this evolution is the track “Shelter”where soundscapes take center stage. From the soft opening chords, to the distortion-laden instrumental climax, the band plays with the listener's emotions.
Something that happened to us with this song, returning to the theme of landscapes, is that it gave me a feeling of being in an abyss about to jump. The guitars made me feel a little dizzy and then the strength that comes when we all enter together, it grips a little. “Just in this song, which is instrumental, it was raised from the beginning that if it were to be instrumental it had to have that thing of going through different places or sensations.”
“I, in particular, love it because I'm very focused and what happens between us, I'm there, but I'm looking at the drummer and I approach one, I approach another, but I love that feeling of the four of us being together.” “feeling everything that is happening,” he commented. Yanina.
A song that cost a lot to compose – as Yani says – because we wanted it to have different atmospheres within the song. Even at a compositional level, it is a song that starts in four quarters, which is one measure and then goes to three quarters and they were things that we had never done before, that we decided to experiment with in this song.”
“Super influenced by our favorite post rock bands; that song for me is strictly super post rocker and we thought that we were not going to play it live much, we had the conception that it was not going to be very interesting to play live. We thought people were going to get bored, we said 'it's instrumental, they're not going to pay attention'. However, they ended up applauding us; I always like to present it as 'now we're going to have an instrumental song' and people love it. One would believe that the trend is different, the bands have a lot of voice, however there are still people who like to listen to only instruments and enjoy that,” he concluded. Tita.
With We made the forest grow, End of the World demonstrates that his ability to build soundscapes continues to expand. Through introspective melodies, nostalgic lyrics and enveloping instrumental mastery, the band offers us an experience that transcends the merely musical.
This album, which reflects both the personal and collective evolution of its members, will be released this October 18 bgarlic stamp Spinda Records. An album that will captivate you with its enveloping atmosphere and message of hope, reminding us that, even in the darkest moments, there is always room for something better to flourish.
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