![]() That’s just a feeling, right? But the flipside is Ben and I were like, “All we listen to is rock and roll bands from the ’90s!” It started with early Merge band, like Archers of Loaf, but moved over from us listened to Polvo and Chavez to not listening to that. You want to say, “I don’t give a shit what anyone says about my band,” but at a certain point, you don’t fit in and you get sick of confused faces. When we started touring, though, we could gauge audience reactions. If we got asked to play shit, cool, but if not, who cares. For the first five years of Taking Meds, we weren’t pressed about shit. Such Gold had a sound expected, and we wanted a band where we could do anything we wanted. ![]() We have never fit in anywhere–and that was the intention when we started. What accounts for the shift in sound here? This is pretty different from previous Taking Meds records. That’s not out of the realm of possibility.Ī lot of the press materials for Dial M for Meds reference ’90s alt rock. Maybe they were big Such Gold fans back in the day. How’d that come up?īoring story–their agent hit up our agent. You guys are playing some shows with Smoking Popes starting tonight. We spoke with vocalist/guitarist Skylar Sarkis about the more prominent ’90s alt rock influences on Dial M for Meds and his approach to lyrics this time around. It’s a swing for the New York quartet, but it pays off in spades. Tomorrow they’ll release Dial M for Meds, an album that trades the gruff screams of previous releases for earworm hooks and the gnarled riffs for clean leads. I won’t waste time belaboring the point when Aaron’s already said it so well: Taking Meds is about to drop the best record of their career. Home > Artist Interview: Skylar Sarkis of Taking Meds Artist Interview: Skylar Sarkis of Taking Meds
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