One year after their first french show, PVRIS came back in the capital. RockUrLife have met them for their Deluxe edition of “White Noise” which is released this 22th April.
You play in kind of your town tonight, how do you feel about it?
Alex Babinski (guitar): Yes, we’ve actually played next tour, last year.
Lynn Gunn (vocals): Almost exactly year ago.
Alex: So, PVRIS in Paris.
Lynn: Part 2! Upgrate! Yeah, we gonna have fun.
Why did you choose to do a deluxe edition your first album “White Noise“? What is the difference?
Lynn: Deluxe Edition has an extra track featured on it, “Empty”, around the time we signed on the day of the headliner we were like, we need to put something up at the same time, it’s kind of show a way to celebrate the touring, kind of closing things off, kind of going off date stuff, wanted to get people over that extra stuff.
It’s gonna be available soon, how do you feel?
Alex: I’m excited, we can’t wait a second.
You’re a young band, have you some funny short story to tell us?
Lynn: There’s a lot!
Alex: Yeah, a couple!
Brian MacDonald (bass/keyboards): Funny stories happens every day.
Alex: When you got stuck in the mud.
Lynn: Last year I got again stuck in the mud on the highway in the middle of nowhere, we had to call someone to come and pull us out, we pretty much did it on purpose.
Alex: Pretty much.
Brian: Lots of trouble right there. (laughs)
Lynn: We did, we did, I broke everything that day. (laughs)
Each song start with a mirror, what is the hidden symbolic?
Lynn: The mirror is like, like a little bit of portal from one song to the next, it kind a sums up this record as a whole because it’s very self deflective, counteractive, it’s kind a symbolic, educationalized.
Do you have a story about this mirror in your experience?
Lynn: Yeah, when we were just setting on. Put out the video of St.Patrick, and thats, that video started with the mirror I think, big concern with that. When we put the next song out, and it kind a just became like a theme in this kind a iconic thing so we decided to just go with that from then.
Brian: Yeah, it’s like a portal into the next video as well.
Lynn: So, yeah so throughout the music video it acted as a transition so like the next video would pop up in the middle of one video and it was kind a cool and interactive and help people kind a try and guess which video is next, and I don’t know it was funny, it was like a whole community thing. Fans would get really involved and be like “I think this one is next”, and its phenomenal people guessing from home.
Each song are a little bit dark, video in white and black? What are you inspiring by? It is about your baddest experiences?
Lynn: Absolutely yeah, it wasn’t for me personal, it wasn’t anything tangible but it was all completely mental and emotional. So in a way took a form of ghost to be hunted by something whose technically, go back as you can see there, things that are very tangible stuff. So yeah, it took a shape of ghost, all paranormal.
When will you gonna make a colored video clip?
Lynn: We don’t know yet. (laughs) But some video are in color like “White Noise”, “St. Patrick”.
Yes, but still dark.
Lynn: Yeah! We’ll change the style, not necessarily the coloring but a kind of the style, the way. I mean, it’s a good question. (laughs)
Can we consider you like the new Paramore?
Lynn: I don’t know. Yeah, they are a awesome band so I’m flattered. It’s cool.
In which music atmosphere did you grow?
Alex: My influences always changes, but I’ve always listen to stuff like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, this kind of stuff, now it’s a little bit different.
Lynn: I mean I grew up with very heavy rock.
What’s your favorite band you’re listening right now?
Lynn: Bones, they’re playing with us tonight. Really good.
To conclude with our traditional question: as our website is called “RockUrLife”, what rocks your life?
Lynn: What rocks your life?
Alex: Doing this, seing the world. Travel in France, playing music: that’s rocks my life.
Brian: Being in Paris!
Alex: Yeah! Being in Paris is rocking my life right now.
Lynn: I think just do what we’re doing, it rocks my life.
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