Wilt on Lessons From Tour, Taylor Acorn, and Blizzards (2025 Edition)
Every year is Wilt’s best year. Since their official formation in 2022, the band has released fifteen total songs, embarked on six tours, and racked up millions of streams. If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that Wilt sits down with The Music Box every year to talk about the amazing things they did throughout the year, and the things they’ve got planned for the next. 2025’s interview was no different— except that they had so many more accomplishments to discuss and reflect on. See below for video and full transcription.
So this is the third full year, fourth interview. I'm ready to rock and roll.
Aaron Liebman: Wow, that's crazy. I watched the first one not that long ago, just and I was like, wow, we look all different, which is really funny.
I was just thinking about how it's been so fun to map your progress and also mine. I'm like, wow, I was a completely different person when that happened, and so were you guys, and so much has happened since then. So yes, it's fun to reminisce. I'm ready to hit you with some good stuff. I'd love to go back and talk about what you guys did this year, because it was kind of a crazy year for Wilt. You guys were booked and busy, which is amazing. You played Flower Moon Festival, you released the deluxe vinyl of your self titled EP, you went on spring, summer and fall tours, you dropped two singles, “bad seed” and “without you,” you opened a tour for Taylor Acorn, which I can't wait to hear about.” Nothing special” hit a million streams. “The riff” hit 2 million, and “bite my tongue” hit 3 million.
AL: All that stuff did happen.
Chelsea Rifkin: It's crazy because I was like, wow, this year was kind of boring for Wilt. But now that you say it, I remember.
AL: This is crazy deja vu, because we had this exact conversation last interview, like the things we did, and we were like, whoa, that was all this year. It's so slow, while it's happening, so when you look at everything you did, you're like, oh yeah, it was a few things.
Andrew Perrea: It all stacks up.
Well, you killed it this year, and I can't wait to hear about all of it. First, I want to hear about the shows that you did this year, because you, like I said, were booked and busy with tours. So tell me a little bit about your headliners and what the response was like at those shows, as well as the opening gigs. Were you seeing, especially at the headliners versus the shows we were opening for, familiar faces? Were there new people that you got to connect with, what was the vibe at the shows this year?
CR: Yeah, I mean, honestly, they were all so different. And the headline tour was definitely my favorite. It was weird because we went on an opening tour and then did the headline tour that went back and did another opening tour, and the differences are crazy. It was insane seeing people come out in other states just for us, because, when you're opening, you know, people may have come for you, but like, not everyone's there for you. Whereas everyone's there for you at the headline tour, which was really cool. The EP was out this time around too. People were singing the words, and it was really cool. It makes me really excited for a full headline run.
AP: Yeah, the energy was really amazing in the headline shows. I really felt like that was the highlight of the year, and we also saw a lot of people that came out to multiple or like a third or fourth show.
CR: We started a stamp card.
I saw that! What a cute idea, did anyone fill up their stamp card?
CR: There's a couple people with three stamps, but we just started that on this Taylor Acorn tour. You can only have that many, or like, more than one, if you came to more than one Taylor Acorn show at this point.
AP: Yeah, there's some people that are gonna fill them out pretty fast.
Does that mean more shows next year? Possibly…?
CR: Definitely, it would be crazy if we didn't play any shows.
My heart would be broken. What would we even talk about next year?
CR: That'd be so boring!
AP: You would find a bunch of things to mention that we forgot about.
Fair point. So being as this was a big year for Wilt in streams and shows, I'm assuming a lot more people, like you said, were singing the words back at you with these new songs and the old ones. What was it like seeing that, and what were your favorite songs to see fans sing along to this year?
Dan Bermudez: Jeez, I feel like “bite my tongue” was a crazy experience.
AL: I would say it's validating, because at the end of 2024 we played LA, which can be a tough crowd to play to, in some ways. And we almost sold it out, but we didn't quite sell it out. So I think I definitely had a little chip on my shoulder about these headline shows. I'm like, okay, we're gonna sell them out. It was really sick to see a packed New York, basically 130 more people than we're at our LA show. Even with our in ears that are kind of plugging our ears— hearing the crowd sing during the quiet moments was really insane.
CR: It was really crazy. I remember specifically, like, what was the first show, Portland? Not in Portland. Lol. Portland was really fun and you were there, but in Seattle, people were singing so loud, specifically, that “you're the one to blame.” It's really easy to hear because it's like, kind of empty verse, there's not really much, going on with the guitars and instruments. Like, “bite my tongue” is our most popular song, of course, people are going to know it, but knowing “you're the one to blame” is like… underrated banger. So that was really surprising and cool.
AP: And not just hearing people sing along, which is something we've gotten more and more of with the headline shows, but people just cheering when “bite my tongue” starts. Just to be able to play the riff and then hear this lift from the crowd.
CR: I think it's something that we hadn’t really experienced before this year, because our music hadn't been out for that long, and we were still growing an audience. Now that we've really found our audience, like this year has felt like true. Every time we play, there's at least one person singing along.
That's so awesome. I remember in Portland, I went to the back of the room for a while. I don't remember what song it was, but everyone was singing the words. And I was like, this is my ‘they made it’ moment. I'm so happy for them. It was cool. You had the whole room singing along.
AP: Even some of the unreleased songs, you know, are making a name for themselves.
AL: The UK has been big on our list, or just actually Europe in general, but I heard that they sing the riffs over there.
CR: Ba da da da da da (singing riff.)
AL: They sing the guitar parts.
CR: Meow meow meow meow meow meow (singing riff again.)
AL: So that is something I'm looking forward to hearing. Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah (singing Weezer riff).
That’s amazing. Okay, more tour questions. Your tour with Taylor Acorn, I thought it was absolutely bonkers that you guys got to open for her, and I'm so bummed that I wasn’t able to go the Portland show, but it looked truly special every show. How was it playing to a new audience with such an amazing act to support?
CR: It was really fun. A lot of shows that we played before, you know, it feels like we're opening ourselves up to more of an audience of the same kind that we’ve already kind of been growing. But, she just has a very different fan demographic. I think we kind of grew our millennial fan base a little bit, which was awesome and really cool. Her fans were amazing. Her and her team were amazing. The shows were really great, and they were different crowds than we were used to, but everything felt super, super good. It really felt like we were making new fans, which was awesome.
AP: Yeah. And also on this tour, we finally got to hit some newer spots. We'd kind of done a few places over again, like on previous tours. And this one, you know—
CR: We’re going to Detroit!
AP: Toronto was huge, like, first Wilt show outside of the US. It was great to meet everyone. And, like, ones that were smaller, like Lawrence, Kansas.
CR: Or even Dallas, we'd never played Dallas, and that was one of our best shows. Like, there were so many Wilters there. It was crazy. And it was just like, wow, we haven't really even been here yet.
AL: Yeah, I would say you tailor the set to the audience a little bit—
CR: Get it, taylored?
AL: Especially for opening slots. Obviously, headline, you're just gonna do your thing. But, like, I remember on Lovejoy tour where we played every song seven BPM faster for the indie pop crowd.
CR: Sweet Spine we tried to keep it heavier.
AL: On this tour, it took us a few shows to nail the setlist down.
CR: Curate le vibe.
AL: Yeah, exactly. So there's like, a little adjustment period. I felt like second half of the tour, especially, we were really vibing with the audience and hanging out with them after the set. You could tell that they were stoked, and we were stoked that they got there early. Like, that's so cool. Not everyone does that, especially, millennials.
AP: That was a really cool feeling. It was definitely just like, we got to play to a lot of people, you know, like, they came early, and they were there for our set, and that was really nice.
That's amazing to hear. I was going to ask if there was a lot of people coming up to you guys after the set, and saying they're a new fan, or talking about their experience watching your set. So that's super cool.
CR: Definitely, yeah, there was a lot of that, which is always a good feeling when you're opening for an artist that is just so talented and amazing like Taylor Acorn.
AL: Her show set is super high bar. When we’d watch it, I'd be like, that's why she's headlining this tour.
Ah, I’m getting FOMO that I couldn’t go.
CR: Maybe next time. Maybe we'll tour with her in the future, which would be awesome. We had so much fun.
Can I ask what songs got booted from the set list for the opening tour?
CR: We didn't play “puberty.”
Oh, that's so sad.
CR: “Every now and then,” “more than this,” I think we played everything else.
AP: We did not play our cover of, “Please, Please” by Smart.
CR: By Smart! (laughing)
AP: I mean “Please, Please Be Smart” by Remo Drive.
CR: We actually played “Drain You”" again one show because I lost my voice. That was in Lawrence, Kansas, and it was such a messy show. That's what we called our drunk show, except we weren't that drunk.
AP: I broke a string.
CR: Yeah, he broke a string first song of the set, and some guy came up to us 10 minutes before this show, and was like, hey, can I play “the riff” with you? And we were like, fuck it, sure. Messy doesn't mean bad, it was like, messy, drunk fun. We got oysters beforehand in Kansas.
AL: I saw him on TikTok recently. He just commented. He was like, you let me play the guitar in the riff! You're my goat!
You let him play?
AL: Yeah, I was like, sorry you couldn't hear yourself on stage. We had in-ears.
CR: What was his name?
AL: Spencer.
That’s so cool. You guys are already curating amazing fan moments, and that's what matters.
CR: Because we did the “the riff” contest last year, in 20 years, when we're headlining stadiums hopefully, people will bring signs being like, let me play “the riff!”
That's so cute. That's a good way to establish it. You spent a really, really decent chunk of this year on tour and on the road and playing shows. Is there anything new that your time on the road this year taught you? Like, things that you didn't really know or hadn't experienced before about touring, whether that be finding routine, managing stress, or even just balancing lack of sleep, versus how many energy drinks you're drinking a day. Is there anything new?
CR: The main thing that was different this year was, or like the last tour we did with Remo Drive, like the only other full US tour, we didn't too many vans, so it wasn't really like we were on tour all together, but like we almost weren't, because that's where you spend most of your time on tour, in a van together. We toured with Sweet Spine earlier this year, and that was like, two weeks, or a week and a half or something.
AL: Yeah, 10 days.
CR: It was a long 10 days, and we learned a lot. It was our first time touring in a van. It was really fun, but it was also, like, that was the most exhausted I think we've ever been on tour. So going into this Taylor Acorn one, we're like, okay, what can we do to make it more comfortable for all of us? And it definitely made it a lot more fun. Yeah, so much better. Like not staying in the shittiest of shitty hotels, just like the kind of shitty ones. We love Holiday Inn.
AP: We recalibrated and learned so much, I think, from our touring this year compared to other ones. I think I figured it was like our fifth time in a van, but like, only our second time, or, sorry, third time in a sprinter van altogether, and not in a minivan. We definitely had growing pains on the Sweet Spine tour. Once you're all in one van and always having to compromise and figure out the best way, and, you know, not getting on each other's nerves. Especially this tour with Taylor, we all came off it just feeling so happy, and it was so fun. There were so many odds against it. Like, we went through blizzards.
CR: And, you know, we all live in California, so we don't know how to drive in snow like that. But, we didn't flip over.
DB: True. We passed by a lot of by a lot of flipped over vans.
AP: Yeah. I mean, we just, really braved through the cold and winterness of the tour.
CR: And I didn't lose my voice really at all.
AP: Yeah, Chelsea never lost her voice. Dan ended up driving across the country four times. But, we all just came off the tour, not feeling exhausted, not feeling burnt out.
CR: Which is good because we have a show this week.
AP: Yeah, feeling like, stoked. And like, okay, this is something we can do. Now we’ve gotten our our tolerance up a little bit and have allowed ourselves more creature comforts, staying a little bit better hotels.
CR: Getting nicer sleeping mats.
AP: Yeah, we definitely got some notches in our belt now on the touring.
AL: Weirdly, being on tour for this long, and I was gonna ask you guys this [to rest of band], coming back to LA, it's made me realize stuff about my life off the tour. I was struck after living out of my suitcase, my carry-on suitcase, and I went to my closet, and I was like, I have way too many fucking clothes. I was like, wait, I just don't need all these.
CR: I was the opposite. I was like, wow, I have so many clothes again. I don't have to wear the same thing every day.
Chelsea, your wardrobe was amazing this tour, by the way.
CR: Oh, thank you. Thank you so much.
AL: Wait for the ‘Stage Threads.’
CR: Oh, yeah, we did a video. Have you ever seen digital tour bus?
Yes. Oh, my god, yeah.
CR: Like a bus invaders video. They also started doing this new thing that's like, stage threads, where you show off your stage outfits. And I did it.
I thought you said stage threats at first, and I was like, where are we going with this? But okay, much better, cute. I haven't seen that. I need to watch it. Yeah, that's okay, Aaron, were you going to say anything else?
AL: I feel like that's basically it.
CR: Yeah, he's just the bear [in reference to bear onesie.]
AL: Next question, I’m ready.
That's so cute! I felt like there has got to be something that was different about touring this year, since you did so much of it.
CR: It got better, and I wish we’d never come home.
Okay, so your first time through a blizzard, I'm assuming, yeah?
CR: Yeah, we love the snow. I went on a hike today, and it's so nice in LA right now. And I was like, wow, a week ago, I was in snow and ice, and I had to wear three layers, and I could only wear boots, and now I'm wearing a sports bra and I'm sweating.
Did you bring like, appropriate clothing for that?
CR: I did not. I don't know what I was thinking, but I didn't bring any long sleeve shirts, I didn't bring gloves, I didn't bring a hat. I didn't bring thick socks. I did thrift a lot, and I got all the stuff I needed.
AL: Great coat.
CR: Oh my god, yeah, in Nashville, because we were in Nashville a few days after our first show with Taylor, I went thrifting, and I found the best, like camo jacket. It wasn't really for snow. It's like a hunting coat. I think it has crazy pockets, but I think are for beers.
AL: Or I feel like, ammo.
CR: Yeah, ammo is not how I’m gonna use it.
AL: It has a very structured pocket that’s definitely meant for like—
CR: —it’s a cup holder, I feel like—
AL: —dip.
CR: Oh, it’s probably dip, yeah [laughing]. There’s so many pockets on that thing.
You've got a pocket for each of those things.
CR: Literally. It kept me real warm.
That's amazing. I'm glad you're able to thrift something. I feel like I wouldn't have been prepared.
CR: I thrifted a lot.
That's the best part, though, thrifting in new cities is always so fun.
CR: Yeah, tell everyone else that.
Uh oh…
CR: Do you know how much I spent on Ubers to go to thrift stores? More than I spent at the actual thrift stores. It was worth it, though.
Good, good. As long as you came out with something cool. That's what matters.
CR: A lot of cool stuff, yes.
Okay, so you guys dropped two new tracks this year— “without you,” and “bad seed,” which, I'm kind of sad that they weren’t out before the Portland show, because I didn't know the words. It was sad.
AP: We wanted to get them out, but timing just didn't quite work out.
And that's totally okay. They're not only amazing studio recordings, but they were phenomenal to hear live, even though I didn't know the words yet. And while they weren't released on streaming until later in the year, you were playing them throughout your 2025 tours. Can you tell me a little bit about what it was like working on those songs in the studio, and then taking them with you on the road?
AP: Well, yeah, let's see. It was a pretty crazy process making them. It was our first time working with an outside producer. And speaking of tours and Sweet Spine, we very much sort of boofed the timing on everything in that we did those in May and we didn't have the time we thought to work on them because of the tour.
CR: We had like, three days basically to do it.
Tight schedule, okay.
AL: We got most of it done, and then we were like, guess we're doing more of it after the tour. She came in for additional vocals, so we got the bulk of it. But yeah, it was kind of a disjointed recording process. Zach was wonderful, though, at kind of dealing with our constraints. There was only one day where we were all in the studio at the same time for recording drums.
CR: Which was so random!
AL: Which is usually not how that happens.
CR: I’m ;ike, what did I add that day?! I just hung out.
AP: Well, it was a really sick studio.
CR: It was a really sick studio.
DB: Yeah, cats everywhere.
CR: A lot of cats.
AL: But yeah, we changed the arrangements, kind of at the one yard line, I would say, like, with these songs, just because of the time that we spent working on them. Pre-production was, like, the day before we would track drums, yeah. So it was, like, okay, whoa, new arrangements. I guess this is gonna work, like let's see how we feel about it. So we were kind of reworking the songs right before we recorded them, which took some getting used to. We had played the songs a few times, like at Flower Moon Festival.
AP: Some of them went back to the Echo. We played them a handful of times.
AL: So the recording process ended up sounding fucking awesome. We were really happy with the result. Taking them on the road wasn't too complicated. I mean, we ended up switching some of the parts that we play a tiny bit.
AP: Just to streamline, but we didn’t change anything. We pretty much keep them true to the record. And that was one cool thing about having played them live. We changed the arrangements, like the the way that we approached building the songs was different. Different than the previous ones, where we just recorded and recorded and recorded and then kind of had to reduce to play live now. It's pretty straightforward.
AL: And they went over pretty well. I mean, “bad seed” has a pretty obvious shout back part that's kind of like baked into the song, so people pick up on that pretty quickly.
AP: That one definitely feels like… it's the second song in our set right now, and it definitely feels like it’s in a good spot, and that it’ll stay there.
Did you feel that there was, well, I guess you said there was some Wilt fans at the Taylor Acorn shows, but was there anyone singing those words back at you, or was it still too early in the release process?
CR: I would say at least the chorus and the shout back part. “Bad seed” is literally a shout back. It's super easy to get along, especially when people are singing the backup vocals, and it's hard not to sing along honestly. And then “without you,” it also has a really catchy, easy to sing chorus, like— “without you, without you,” you know. So I feel like people kind of caught along towards that too.
AL: I would say like, because we don't have the stats, we don't know actually how many Wilt fans were at the show, all we have to go on is the energy.
CR: And merch.
AL: Oh yeah, merch is actually a metric that we can track. But like, you know, when people start clapping, when “bite my tongue” plays… Like, in Allentown, no one clapped, because we've never been to Allentown. So it's like, I don't know if anyone knows us there, but in Dallas, which is a big streaming city for us, that was like, oh, look, there's a few.
CR: Yeah, I don’t think we brought in anyone from Allentown. Sorry Allentown Wilters if there are any.
AL: There are some for sure. I think they came from Philly. But yeah, the new songs translate pretty well live, and it's cool to bring them to life.
They sound so good. The recordings are mixed so well. So yeah, this was a very special year for me in Wilt world, because I finally got to see you live, and y'all just blew my mind. It was amazing, especially since it was a headline show and it wasn't just an opening tour. So I have to ask, you came through Portland twice this year, how was your time in the city? And on that note, were there any other cities throughout all of these tours that really stuck out to you as being special?
CR: Well, actually, Portland is a good one to ask about, because me and Aaron flew in the day early for our Portland show because I didn’t want to fly and then have the show on the same day. So we got a little brother-sister time in Portland. It was really fun. It was really fun. We walked around Hawthorne. Had really yummy ice cream sundaes. Oh, we got Thai food.
AL: Yeah, I got Banh Mi.
CR: What else did we do?
AL: Oh, I got my necklace fixed.
CR: That was so random, this random shop. But, like, it wasn't a jewelry shop. It was a spiritual shop that had jewelry and other weird stuff in it. Yeah. Aaron was like, can you fix my necklace? And I'm like, dude, we're not at a jewelry shop. He did it. It was free, right?
AL: No, it was like 15 bucks, or like 10 bucks.
CR: All you needed was a little jump ring.
AL: No, I needed a clasp. I told him, I was like dude, can you put a clasp on it? Because the necklace—this is so unrelated—it takes me like, three minutes to take it off every time, because every link looks exactly the same. So I was like, can you put this on and he's like, yeah, I got you. And he, like, made one. It's old Portland native guy that was sick, yeah.
CR: Yeah, Portland's cool.
AP: What a weird show [Taylor Acorn date], it was fully seated, or mostly seated. It was the day before Thanksgiving, so the vibes were a little quiet, but still, some awesome Wilters showed up.
CR: It was in like, a school auditorium, yeah?
AP: Well, it was theater, the venue. The venue was, wait, I can't remember theater.
CR: You know, you live in Portland, spit it out. No, I’m kidding.
I remember looking at the thing and thinking, I haven't been to that venue, but I don't remember which one it was.
AP: It was weird, but we had a great time. We had Thai food, and then we went to the strip club, me and Chelsea. Well, Taylor Acorn’s team begged us to go, not Taylor, just her team. So we had a great, very memorable night out the night before Thanksgiving.
Were there any other tour stops that you felt like were really, really good for Wilt? Whether that be headlining, opening.
CR: Oh, well, this doesn’t have to do with a show, but we went to Niagara Falls.
Period! Okay, fun adventure.
CR: Oh, Dallas. Dallas was really good. Like I said, we're playing a festival there in March, which will be cool.
AL: The strodes. There's a lot of strodes in Dallas.
CR: What’s a strode?
AL: A street-road.
CR: A lot of parking lots too.
DB: I feel like Chicago, both on the headline tour and opening tour, was great.
CR: It was so cold this year but it was so pretty. I love Chicago this time of year, and we were staying in a really good location.
AP: Hard to have a bad time in Chicago.
CR: Yeah, Chicago is one of our favorite cities for sure.
AP: Austin also.
CR: We always have a great time in Austin. We also love Seattle. We didn't really do that much in Seattle. I went and got clam chowder.
AP: We went to this arcade bar after the show.
CR: Oh, yeah, that is what we did.
AP: I had a mudslide. Had a mudslide and the thing where you throw skeeball, yeah?
CR: Oh my God, dude, we really killing it at skeeball, yeah, yeah.
Skeeball is so fun. Underrated arcade game.
CR: Oh so fun, underrated arcade game, especially if you're not afraid to break it.
You really just gotta chuck it sometimes.
CR: Yeah, you gotta chuck it! You gotta, like, make it hurt.
That's what makes it fun. So, like I said, this was a big year for you guys, and there were a lot of victories. What is the victory you each are most proud of from 2025?
AL: Oh yeah, you asked us this last time.
You’ve got to have something to look back on, you know?
AL: I have one and I'm gonna steal it before anyone else does. We hit 300,000 monthly listeners, which feels rad. It's one of those things, like, okay, Cece, you're a music enjoyer. Do you like, look at that? Monthly listeners? Like, oh, this band has this many?
I don't use Spotify also, and it doesn't really show you on Apple Music.
AL: That is good that they don't do that on Apple and, yeah, it's a gift and a curse.
CR: It gamifies it.
AL: It does gamify it. It's like putting a quantity on your success, but also, listeners and stuff do not necessarily translate to live shows.
CR: But like, 300,000, it’s a cool number.
It’s an amazing number! So many people are listening to you guys, period.
AL: It puts us in the bracket with a lot of bands that we really look up to. So that's my that's my take.
CR: It'll go down, but it's cool. It's a good Christmas present.
No, don't say that! Don’t manifest it.
AL: It’ll go down, but not as far as it did before.
AP: For me, my biggest victory for Wilt, besides the headline shows, which were amazing, wasn't a single moment, but it was just honestly finding the discipline and the good habits to like take some of our successes and repeat them this year in a way that grew us. So for me, it was honestly just like, posting more consistently, and, you know, promoting “bite my tongue” to make it get where it's been. We're always seeing our popularity go up and down with social media success a little bit, and sometimes it feels like you're just chasing the next trend, but we really this year, or especially me, felt consistent with it, just trusting the process and doing the thing, and specifically posting “bite my tongue” a bunch, and never getting discouraged. After almost a year of doing this, the growth has been awesome, really sustained.
DB: Yeah, I guess one thing that I think of is releasing music under a label, you know, getting signed. When I was a kid or a teenager, or whatever, and I think about, you know, putting out music, and it's like, oh yeah, cool, big bands are signed to record labels. Now it’s like, oh shit, that actually happened.
CR: Mine's kind of similar to that with, like, building a team. We got a manager, we got an agent.
AP: There's all this behind the scenes stuff that we, you know, we don't post about.
CR: Literally, it's crazy, because last year at this time, we were doing everything ourselves, still. We were flirty with, like, the manager and the agent. But it wasn't for real, for real. Like, we have a lawyer, like, what? We just got a business manager. Like, what is going on? We have a merch company. What is happening!
AP: Also, by the end of the year, we will have probably have sold about 1000 vinyl.
Oh my god, that’s amazing!
AP: The fact that we even have vinyl is pretty sick.
CR: Last year, everyone was asking, and we said it was a distant thing, but then, we just kind of did it ourselves, no one was going to do it for us. You kind of took that on, right?
AP: Yeah, I made it happen, and it was not easy at all.
CR: But, you know, it was worth it. That’s DIY as fuck.
And that’s what the roots are.
CR: Yes!
That’s all amazing, and to juxtapose that, I want to ask— what are some things you want to improve on or do better next year? Or just do more of?
CR: We all just gotta, like, glow up a little. Nah, just kidding. Not everyone, just like…
Uh oh…
CR: I’m just kidding!
AL: I mean, our live show is good, but like, we just started doing transitions this year. Set dec would be cool. Our live show is sick, and it can get even better with some cool things that we haven’t tried yet, like set dec. We just need to play more live shows, that's a big goal.
CR: Also, world building, we’re in the process of making an album, and world building. We don’t have any music videos or any true Wilt aesthetic. We kind of have what our vibe is, darker, purple and black, but I want to get specific with it. It’s all about being brand identifiable!
AP: With making our album, I want… I mean it’s not even a ‘this year’ thing, it’s within the next two months, really locking in and make the best music possible. And to have no limits creatively, and create a lot more to make a great album.
DB: Kind of in the same boat, the record is something I’ve really been thinking about a lot, and the process.
CR: Like what’s the cover going to be?
AL: True, what’s the name of the album?
CR: I have some really strong music video ideas.
The are all amazing goals to have, and you’ve done so much cool stuff this year, so you should be proud of yourselves, pat yourself on the back, you deserve it. Big round of applause for Wilt! That’s about all I have for questions, but I’d love to ask if there’s anything else we can be looking forward to next year?
AL: The album!
CR: The album and world domination.
AL: You know, there are some things that are sort of up to the concert gods, like sick opening tours.
CR: Anyone watching this, go spam comment your favorite artist that we should open for.
AL: Maybe dont do that.
AP: Nah, they can do that.
AL: Okay, do it. But, the one thing we can guarantee is that the album is going to come out. There will be more headline shows. There will be festivals.
CR: There will be merch. There will be good times had all around.
You’ve already booked one festival that’s announced right now, yeah?
AP: Yes, Gazed and Confused in Dallas.
And you’ll get to go back to Dallas!
CR: Yeah, which is great.
AL: Strodes!
That’s all I have for you guys, thank you so much for interview number four.
AL: Thanks Cece, can’t wait for number five, and we’ll see you in Portland before then.
Oh absolutely. Happy Wiltmas, enjoy your pajama party!
