Meet Shake The Baby Til The Love Comes Out

We sure do appreciate the unconventional and Shake the Baby Till The Love Comes Out fits the bill.

This duo is gonna make you stop in your tracks with their big name and bigger sound. Yes, their name does make you pause and scratch your head and question if that’s even legal. But then you realize it’s all in good fun, all in the name of love, so it’s good, good.

Fresh from the most recent release, Growth, and Healing Through Bringing Others Down, we chat with Niko Wood and Fiona Gurney about the present, the support systems of Seattle, and the complexity of feelings.

Shake all about it below!

Video Games, A Mad-Lib by STBTTLCO

I love to ENCOMPASS video games. I can play them day and GALOSH! My mom and GAZPACHO are not too happy with my GASTRIC BYPASSING so much time in front of the television WELLINGTON BOOT. Although Dad believes that these SMELLY games help children develop hand-INTEGUMENT coordination and improve their learning CARDIOLOGISTS, he also seems to think they have JUICE-RIDDEN side effects on one's KNEE PIT. Both of my TRUCK BEDS think this is due to a FESTERING use of violence in the majority of the WHISKERS. Finally, we all arrived at a GHOULISH compromise: After dinner, I can play A HUNDRED MILLION THOUSAND hours of video games, provided I help clear the RANGE ROVER and wash the SUFFERERS.

Would You Rather

Would you rather have a perfect photographic memory, or be able to see up to one day into the future?

The former. The present is all we got and the future is probably hack anyway. Much better to remember the details.

Some Questions with STBTTLCO

How did STBTTLCO start?

We met during the formation of another band called U Bellin Hemmie, and eventually split off to form us. We're now three years in and still not sick of it!

What is your favorite dinosaur? Why is it your favorite?

The ones that managed to avoid being made into oil or coal, because you can see them in skeletal form at certain museums.

How does the current scene in Seattle differ from New York?

We moved to Brooklyn two years ago from Seattle, so we're not too privy to the current Seattle scene. But compared to the city we left, New York is a bit more difficult to navigate because it's such a large pond. People there are focused heavily on networking, which presents a challenge in building a tight-knit community. That said, there's a lot to offer in terms of great art and good people. Seattle was very supportive. Full of friends helping each other succeed for the love of it. We're hoping to find more of that in New York. It's there, alright, there's just more to weed through.

What was the creative process like on your most recent release, Growth and Healing Through Bringing Others Down?

We tried to work the songs out on the road, as opposed to our last release which was recorded with maybe ten shows under our belt. Now that we're complete tour addicts, I think we've learned how much songs change when you play them every night. Messing with each other is a big part of our live set. We've tried to lean into that during the writing process.

What is your go-to Karaoke song?

Guitar has done karaoke once. It was Paramore's Misery Business.

Drums has a duet with a friend of Bring Me To Life by Evanescence where they both do the male part. It's mostly silence.

Where is somewhere you have always wanted to perform?

Arctangent. And Iceland. Maybe en route?

What do you want listeners to take away from your music?

That feelings are complex. Happy music has a place, but maybe there's too much of it. Bleeding can be healthy sometimes.

When you're not making music, what are you usually up to?

Booking a tour or pacing a room. We're also passable at the game of pool.

What is your favorite memory from touring?

We ran out of t-shirts a third of the way into our first tour. So on our first day off, in the last hotel in West Texas, we stole the glass from a hallway picture frame to burn a screen and print more. After failing miserably (emulsion fluid is fickle, especially when you're not sure how to properly mix it), we drank whiskey and rum with Topo Chico. We played soccer in the night parking lot and Drummerboy "Foothand" Niko wiped out hard on a bid for the ball, and the concierge yelled at us for being too loud and why the fuck were we playing soccer at that hour of night anyway. What a mess. There was a cat in that hotel.

Who are your biggest musical inspirations?

PJ Harvey, Carrie Brownstein, and the guy from Polvo on guitar. Danny Walker, Mario Duplantier, and Joey Baca on drums.

Describe your sound with a name of a popular breakfast cereal.

Toffee Scrunch

What is the best encounter you have ever had with a fan?

There is a gem of a person in Beaumont, Texas whom we've met twice. She always dances to our undancable music, and the last time we met she gave us some pineapple moonshine that her father-in-law made special for her birthday. It was delicious and then she had us sign the jar.

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

Growth and healing are important. Don't bring others down!

Shake The Baby Til The Love Comes Out