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release of their stunning debut album 'Divinity' earlier this year we
catch up with singer Angelica Rylin
from The Murder Of My Sweet to
find out more about the band and their music ...
MM - Right
straight down to business, how did the band first come together?
Angelica - Daniel
took the initiative to The Murder Of My Sweet. It was by his ideas that
we came together and became a band. He knew the other guys from projects
he had been involved with earlier and in late 2006 they started up what
was to become The Murder Of My Sweet. I was recruited in September 2007.
MM - Was there a vision or plan
of how the band would sound, or did things just develop along the way?
Angelica - We
didn’t really have a plan when we started out. Daniel wanted to do
something different from the progressive stuff he was used to and I
really hadn’t a clue. I had never written music or lyrics before so we
decided to start from the beginning and just let it happen. Our sound
developed naturally as we wrote the songs. Daniel is amazing at
arranging strings, keyboards and horns like soundtracks for movies and
when we took a step back to listen to what we had created we realized that
this was something new. I don’t know of any band that uses score music
for film in rock music so we thought “let’s do it”. Push the
envelope a bit.
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MM - ‘Divanity’
is an outstanding debut release, were the band pleased with how it
turned out?
Angelica -
Absolutely. We worked on it for almost two years. As we could use Daniel’s own
studio Sound vs. Science we
were able to go in and record or change something whenever we wanted to.
We wrote and recorded more than twenty tracks for this debut, so we had a
lot to choose from when it was time to finish it and I believe the best
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MM - How
long did the whole thing take to put together and were there any
problems on the way?
Angelica - From
the start to the release of 'Divanity'
it took about three and a half years. I can’t think of any problems on
the way but the true quest was to find the right record label to sign
with. Frontiers Records came up with the best deal but the most
important thing is that they really believed in us and wanted to commit
100%
MM - With
the influx of female fronted bands over the past few years, how
important was it for the band to stand out from the crowd and
deliver an album that would send waves of euphoria around the world
as the album did?
Angelica - First
of all, thank you for loving our album :) We didn’t really expect
anything when we first started out. We just wanted to do our thing and
we go all the way when we set our mind on something. The effects of our
song writing and that some critics have put us among great bands like
Within Temptation and Evanescence is just overwhelming, really
fantastic. I hope that reputation will encourage more people to check to
our music.
MM - What
is the song writing structure for the band, who writes the music and
lyrics? Is it an
individual or does the entire band have input?
Angelica - Mostly
Daniel does most of the composing and I write the lyrics. But we want
everyone to contribute with their skills as we wrap up the song. It’s
all of our different musical backgrounds that make us sound like The Murder
Of My Sweet.
MM - A
question that’s on everyone’s lips at the moment is whether the
band are a full blown touring band or just a studio project?
Angelica
- We
are a full blown touring band. We just recently started playing around
Sweden with a couple of Sweden’s biggest rock festivals ahead of us
and we have the Raismes Festival in France in September. We also have a
German booking agency called ITM that are working on getting us on tour
in Europe this summer. Visit www.myspace.com/themurderofmysweet
or www.themurderofmysweet.com
for exact tour dates.
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MM - Where
do the band go from here? Have
you thought about a second album yet and if so can we expect?
More of the same as regards to quality and musicianship and
musical style?
Angelica
- Today
we are fully committed to promoting Divanity but of course we have some
cool ideas for a second album. You can expect more The Murder Of My Sweet but we will take it up a notch and bring it to
another level. You can always count on a great quality in the
musicianship and sound as long as Daniel Flores is involved. He is an
amazing sound engineer.
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MM - Finally
is there anything you’d like to add or any words for our readers?
Angelica
- Thanks
for reading this interview and check out our music! Support the bands
that you like by buying their albums and letting them know that you are
out there. You are everything to us.
Rock
and kisses*
Angelica
MM
- We'd like to wish Angelica and the band every success with their album
'Divanity' and hope to see them perform live on these shores one
day. If you haven't already checked the album out then be sure to
pop over to their website where you can hear exerts from the new
album. You can also check out what we thought of the album in our
CD Review section.
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