Meet Gnarcissists

On today’s recommendation list — Gnarcissists. A little self-indulgence with a whole bottle gnar, this four-some is chock full of irreverence and noise. They’re loud, they’re fast, and they’re here to answer all of our burning questions. So lend us your ears (and eyes), and indulge in this crew’s latest EP, Caught in the Web.

We lasso’ed these fellas in to discuss vicious life cycles, rabid beavers, and the social construction of “genres.”

Give it a peep below! 

PRIME TIME GOSSIP a Mad-lib by Gnarcissists

Handsome MATT and his BARKEEP, the SMOKEY MARY-BETH raised TWIN HEARTS when they were seen kissing PAINFULLY at the screening of their ADDICT TV movie. The HORNY couple deny it's a romance; they say they are just MOIST friends.

Here's another OLD tidbit... love must be in the RENT CHECK. PETER PARKER and TAMIM who had only COSMIC words for each other last week, were seen holding DONKEYS and whispering in each other's TESTICLES at this week's benefit for adopted DRUGS.

Would You Rather

get a full back tattoo of Garfield or Alf? Please explain why. 

Matti: Both are better than what I have now

Soko: Garfield because I hate Tuesdays 

Some questions with Gnarcissists

What motivates you to keep making music?

Matti: The vicious cycles of life, death and love

Soko: Making music 

If you had to eat food that was only one color for the rest of your life what color would it be?

Matti: Blue

Soko: Tan 

How were the 2010’s to you?

Matti: Bliss

Soko: Rollercoaster 

How did you get stuck in that Web on the cover of your record?

Matti: Being pressured into using a dating app

Soko: Adobe 

What was the creative process working on your 2019 album “Caught In The Webb”

Matti: Well, the one side is just our first EP remastered by Josh Bonati, who also mastered the new songs.  The ‘new’ songs kind of come from the same time period of the first ep, and we have been playing them live but had yet to record them.  So it was basically just trying to find a time that worked for everyone to record those songs. Luckily muddgutts and ben Greenberg came in and nine months later we had a nice little ten inch.

Soko: Chaos 

What is the largest animal you could take in hand to hand combat? 

Matti: I had to defend a friend and I from a rabid beaver while kayaking the Conewago Creek once that ended in the death of another living thing and it was very traumatic - I have not eaten meat since and hope to never be put in that situation again.

Soko: Fictional cow

Who was the first audience that you ever played? How did it go? 

Matti: A handful of people who Jerry would promote that we were having a free show to and then they’d come to sit in our practice space while we awkwardly just rehearsed often times out of our minds.  Poorly.

Soko: Ludlow house and it went well

What role does aggression play into your creative process? 

Matti: I don’t think there is really any aggression in my, or the band’s, creative process.  I mean some of the lyrics and subject matter can certainly be written or played in an aggressive matter, more or less because they were things I found to be annoying or worth writing an ‘aggressive’ song about - but I feel they are meant to be played out in a more satirical manner than aggressive.  In terms of the process, or at least writing the lyrics, I mean most of it has just been like sitting somewhere and processing that like “damn yeah fentanyl just killed another one of my friends, and everyone is still trying to snort through the bathroom walls of XYZ bar” or “nice, kids still can’t drink water in Michigan but we’re gonna talk about XYZ celebrities newest masterclass video”.  Regarding the band dynamic and process, I think we spent most of the time writing laughing and high on paint fumes than like doing pushups and writing a retribution list haha.

Soko: Depression > aggression

What is your favorite song that you have ever written?

Matti: Hsing-Hsing & Eat Your Young

Soko: Hasn’t been wrote yet mate has it?

What is the most comfortable pair of shoes you own?

Matti: A pair of Skecher After-Burns that I get crucified for wearing, which may play into the likening

Soko: Nike running shoes 

How do you strive to maintain authenticity in your work?

Matti: By continuing to just make music with my close friends, and eating at Pasta Wiz

Soko: Doing opposite of what I deem non authentic 

What do you seek to bring to the punk genre? Can punk continue to be innovated?

Matti: ---- Nothing.  I can enjoy the music quite a bit, but when ‘Punk’, at least in New York, became another inclusive boys & girls club and was no different than the garage rock scene or city scene, etc etc - I realized I don’t want to bring or try to feel to fit into any genre.  I think genres are no different than the social groups they reconstruct and reinforce - just let the music play, and be kind.

Soko: No comment 

Any final comments? (This is your electronic soapbox for one last answer.

Matti: Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself

Soko: I’m DJing tonight come thru