In The Wild

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Aimee: “As the song says, ‘ My teeth got sharper, my skin got tough.’ I became stronger because of it and so many of the themes of this record are me realising that I did come out the other side. I did get stronger, I did survive. I'm living, I'm not just surviving. Maybe before in my life I did feel like I was just surviving. Now I feel victorious, I feel stronger. Like the song As We Live, it's a song of celebrating life. It's about being excited waking up in the morning, which is brand new for me. So, because of those themes it does feel like this beautifully victorious moment. I overcame so much.”

The Interrupters share a survival story in new single 'Anything Was Better' ". NME. May 25, 2022 . Retrieved October 12, 2022. Aimee: “We've gotten that a lot in our career and there’s no greater gift than to receive that message. But since we've released Jailbird, In The Mirror, Anything Was Better, the messages I'm receiving are overwhelmingly saying the music is helping them get through a really tough time and that our music has saved them. I can't really find the words to express what that means to me. Because music has saved my life, music has healed me, music has been my best friend and music is the reason I'm alive. So if I can pay that forward or if I could possibly be so blessed as to pass that gift to someone, that's a reason to wake up in the morning and a reason to keep doing what we're doing. It’s the most beautiful thing in the world.” A lot of the songs I’ve written,” she says. “I’ve sprinkled it in the last three records, little snippets of my personal struggles and stuff. But a lot of the songs that I’ve written for The Interrupters, I’ve made about other people. Like I had a song called ‘Jenny Drinks,’ because that’s about Jenny. That’s not about me. I had a song, ‘ Easy On You,’ that’s about somebody else. I always wrote about someone else.”Deciding not to flee but to face down this shadow, Aimee underwent two types of therapy – Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) which uses magnets to ‘target’ parts of the brain, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), an interactive technique that focuses on one segment of trauma at a time.

Unifying and addictive – those are the descriptors that seem to follow The Interrupters from album to album. The SoCal band are apex exponents of second wave ska-punk, but on a deeply human level, they mean way more than that. Genre goes out the window; heart and personality comes steaming in. Their energetic, sauna-hot live shows have felt more like family gatherings than gigs, and while always unusually heartfelt, the themes in their songs have never been as honest or as raw as on this fourth album. Yeah,” says Kevin. “As the producer, I really hear that in her performances: the urgency and just the emotion, and every song has such an identity sonically to me. It jumps out of the speakers and speaks directly to me. And I hope that everyone else hears it the same way I do.” You released In the Mirror , the first single from In The Wild , three months ahead of the album: was this the first time you've felt that you've really been able to face yourself like that? You two are life partners: was that something you tried to keep quiet... or were we just dumb and didn't notice it?It’s early days but I think this might be my favourite Interrupters album. I thought 2019’s Fight The Good Fight would be pretty tough to top – it’s an incredibly solid album – but In The Wild is just that great. Get out there and give it a spin, this one is worth your time. Payne, Chris. "Meet The Interrupters, the First Female-Fronted Ska Band With an Alternative Radio Hit Since No Doubt". Billboard . Retrieved August 30, 2018. The Interrupters Announce New Album Produced by Tim Armstrong". Epitaph.com. May 2018 . Retrieved May 4, 2018. Though Aimee has never been shy about sharing her struggles – growing up in an abusive household, her battles with trichotillomania, years of self-medicating with alcohol – her music in The Interrupters has always had that fictional buffer. Even when making In The Wild, the group had songs left on the editing floor because they didn’t fit in with the overall narrative.

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Aimee: “And they knew that for years there were things I wanted to talk about. With a lot of my writing, I would write songs where I’ve veiled it, and made it about other people. The band saw how I wanted to do it but at the last minute I'd go, 'Let's just make it about somebody else’.” Listen, I would be dead without music, hands down, 100% in the ground long ago if it wasn’t for music,” says Amiee. “Music has been my refuge, my healing light. It’s healed me. It’s been my best friend. It’s comforted me. And it comforts me in writing, and it comforts me when someone connects with it. And all of a sudden, neither of us are alone. We have found kindred spirits, we found community, and music brings people together. And it just feels like music’s so powerful. And I feel so honored anytime anyone says, ‘I heard that song, that got me through a dark time. I feel less alone. Thank you.’ Yeah, it’s the greatest gift in the world to be able to do that when music’s done that for me so much.” I found out about this treatment called TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), which stimulates the part of the brain that causes depression. I did it every day for six weeks and and they put a helmet on me and stimulated that part of my brain. It really helped me significantly with my mental health and my depression. I went from a 10 when I walked in - meaning when they analysed me I was the worst you could get - and when I was finished with my treatment I was a 2. I felt such a relief from depression and I couldn’t believe that the treatment worked. I was actually very sceptical but it worked and I would wake up in the morning and be happy I woke up and really excited about my day. And these were very foreign feelings to me. I'd never felt that before. While these details are truly exciting to hear, Into The Wildhas a particular kind of resonance for Aimee. The relative ease of the proceedings had a profound effect on the vocalist, who felt empowered enough to embrace much darker, personal avenues in her lyrics.

All that aside I do wonder if ‘ Wolves’ is a vague reference to Rancid. Their …And Out Come the Wolves album is one of the biggest punk albums of all time and given the relationship between The Interrupters and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong (who appears on this album) it feels like a subtle nod at the very least.Kevin: “Our minds are blown, these are our heroes. Tim and Billie Joe are amazing human beings and we've learned so much from touring with them and making music with them and watching how they operate with their bands. And it's always inspired us to want to be better - to play better, to play more.”