HAZZE MAGAZINE | VOL. 13 "ETHEREAL"

"What inspired y'all to pursue music and come together to form Humble Braggers?"

We’ve all been playing music since we were young kids - playing in our school's band or orchestra. Bryan and I have been in bands with each other since we were teenagers.

Humble Braggers started as a solo project of mine a few years back and eventually Bryan, Matt and Tom joined in. Our past 2 releases (Cycle and Love & Fear) have been the culmination of the 4 of us.

"Y'all are releasing the new LP, 'Love & Fear', on November 11th. As an album that comes from various focal points in life, what's the key theme of the LP for y'all" I think we wanted to have an album that ebbed and flowed between the ideas of Love & Fear. There’s songs about the love you share with significant others and with yourself. There’s also songs about facing your fears, succumbing to your fears and accepting your fears. There also happens to be songs right in between both ideas. Every song on the album has its own story in between those two concepts.

"For 'Love & Fear'- what was the creative process like when starting to write the album to putting it together all the way up to the release?"

We usually are all constantly working through new ideas for the band. We throw our best ideas up on our mutual Google Drive and dive into the ones we feel drawn to the most. We’ve written our music a few different ways but we’ve gotten into a strong groove on the last two releases. We usually spend a good amount of time in our home studios going through a track and figuring out what it needs, how we want to structure it and what the general vibe is.

Lyrically I usually will lay down some scratch vocal ideas that give a general, subconscious, thought to what I think the song should be about. I usually do this to try and get vocal melody ideas but I try to latch onto whatever concepts come out, lyrically, as best I can.