recording process for ‘Eternity, In Your Arms’, with the band continuing to tour and keep up a jam-packed schedule alongside it. It all came to a head a few weeks in, when Will returned home for a few days on the sofa. “Sometimes that stress can be beneficial, in a way, to the record,” chips in Ian, “‘cause when I listen back to it now, I remember exactly how I felt when that was going on. You can hear little cracks in Will’s voice and I’d think ‘I know where that came from’.” Despite the problems that keeping their walls up may create internally - “late nights are doing me harm” sings Will on album track ‘Winona Forever’ - it’s a secrecy the band are big fans of. “When I used to listen to records as a kid... let’s say ‘Good Mourning’ by Alkaline Trio for example,” starts Will, “I don’t wanna see a picture on Instagram
of Matt Skiba recording that guitar in a blank room, because in my head I picture so many other things - nostalgic memories of my life, or how I imagined the record to be, and when I’m listening to it, I don’t want it to be tarred with an image of that. An image of a studio is so dull, and nothing what a band is like.” The story and soon-to-be-legend of Creeper stretches far beyond the 11 songs on ‘Eternity, In Your Arms’, but the album itself is a far-reaching and comprehensive collection of the fistpumping, flamboyant punk the band are becoming renowned for. It’s also a tangible end product to a tale that, at times, trailed far away from the six members’ music. “What I like about the album,” Will says, “is that it sounds like a band playing, not a machine. You can hear my voice being far from perfect, and it’s those elements of reality - among all the fabrication and storytelling that comes from our band - that are the parts that really stick.”
“It was like King’s Cross station, and I was the train!” - Hannah Greenwood
Creeper’s debut album ‘Eternity, In Your Arms’ is out on 24th March via Roadrunner Records. DIY
CASTING COUCH Creeper’s universe is inhabited by all manner of oddball characters. Who, then, would play them in the Official Creeper Movie™? Will: I think Edward Norton would be good for James Scythe. Ian: The Stranger would have to be someone that’s very tall. Hannah: Slenderman! I: I would like to think that it’d be somebody that could take on that role fully, but not make it wacky. Like Johnny Depp. W: Let’s just think of any tall person. H: OK, Michael Jordan is The Stranger. W: Who would play Madeleine? I: Scarlett Johansson would be great as Madeleine.
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