Arizona doesn’t really strike a chord musically. It’s not Nashville, New York or LA – places everyone goes to make it in this realm. It is however, the home place of Michelle Branch, Jimmy Eat World and The Summer Set. At least they have something to show for and now the Grand Canyon State has The Perfect Addiction.
You wouldn’t see them with JEW or Branch, but their pop rock would definitely garner the interest and love of those into TSS. Although they aren’t quite as foul mouthed Disney as Brian and Co. they do have that fresh, young rock infused pop style that perks and hooks in an instant. Funny since the man behind the following, Kyle Kovalchick, was heavily influenced by Metallica. From the head banging of “Enter Sandman” to now – this is The Perfect Addiction through and through.
Kendra: You all have various moments and reasons for wanting to be in a band, but what was that initial talk like? I always wonder, it is as simple as “Hey…you wanna do this shit?”
Kyle Kovalchick: It started with Sean and Kyle jamming together at another friend’s house. They just kind of clicked and realized that they needed to do something together. From there they started looking for other members and after some time spent with a few different members they settled with the members we have now. The genre surprisingly started out metal, then went to some more acoustic Never Shout Never style songs and naturally found its way at what can you here on Endless Horizon.
Kendra: When you started, you released a record that you weren’t too keen on. Have you ever thought of redoing those songs?
Kyle: Yes we actually redid “Life’s Good” for Endless Horizon and we’ve recently been talking about bringing back a few of the songs that didn’t quite make it on to Price of Progress. At the time the songs seemed a little simple and not quite our style but looking back we’ve realized that, because our musicianship has matured we can turn those songs into something we would really enjoy and be proud of.
Kendra: You obviously grew from there to now, but what growth have you seen between your actual debut and Ecstasy?
Kyle: We learned how to sit down and write a proper song. Back then we just kind of copied and replicated what we listened to. Now we can actually come up with original ideas and write songs that sound like TPA rather than a song that sounds like All Time Low or a song that sounds like Taking Back Sunday.
Kendra: Arizona, you have that on lock. You can not only play there, but sell out shows. What’s the plan on taking the show elsewhere and dominating new markets?
Kyle: At this point, the only thing holding us back has been reasonable travel. We have been so focused on releasing Ecstasy over the past year that we didn’t really have a bunch of time for touring. We are looking into hitting the road soon and hopefully conquering the southwest US before going national.
Kendra: Whose idea was it to do a masquerade ball for “Stop Drop?”
Kyle: It was kind of a collaboration that evolved as our plans went on. We originally wanted to do a party type music video. Then once we realized that we are all horrible actors and that the party videos were overdone, we thought that bringing in masks would be a pretty good way to cover up our shitty acting skills. From there we kind of just wanted to get weird and abstract with it so we brought in the mannequin idea and that is how the music video came to be.
Kendra: Do you like the music video experience? It’s sort of an art we don’t see too much of anymore…
Kyle: We love doing music videos. WE always shoot videos we think would be fun to shoot and fun for the fans to watch. They’re a way for us to put a visual aspect to an audio art. It’s also something that’s easy to share over social media. People are more likely to share and watch a video over Facebook or twitter than they are to share a link to a fan page or a song.
Kendra: If you had to make a mixtape of songs you’re absolutely addicted to, what five songs would have to be on it?
Kyle: This is definitely the hardest question. Narrowing a massive music library down to 5 songs is nearly impossible but in no particular order it would be.
“Dear Maria Count Me In” – All Time Low
“Chocolate” – The 1975
“The Black Parade” – My Chemical Romance
“Jamie All Over” – Mayday Parade
“Sleep Well” – Lydia
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