“My sister was down here, and she was like, ‘Oh, come on down,’” Stone recalls. “I figured I’d start trying to make enough money to finish the record down here. Once I got here, I just started a new group and working on songs.”
He says the lyrics on the band’s upcoming release,
The Fear EP, are based on his personal experiences, but others are more topical and address the current state of the world. For example, the moody title track speaks to the anxiety gripping many citizens of the country right now.
“It speaks a lot to this kind of nervousness that everyone feels, like we are on the brink of something pretty bad happening in our country,” he says. “There is this desire to be prepared for it, and that preparedness is inevitably bringing out violence. Everyone is expecting the next guy to stab him in the back.”