First of all, thank you for the interview, how are you doing?

Thanks for interviewing us, this has been a real excuse to dress up. We’re actually all doing pretty good. Not leaving the house was kind of our thing anyway so hasn’t been too much of an adjustment so far. I give it 2 weeks yet before we start on the breakdown trims and someone buys a tattoo gun off amazon.

Last month, you released a live video of you song Glue, filmed at Young Thugs Studios in York, what was it like recording there? 

It was actually our fifth time there, we love it. We hadn’t filmed a video there before though so that was really cool. We did it with Delinquent Magazine who did a really really good job, they have some sick full sessions on their YouTube (including ours) we recommend checking out. Brown is Wills favourite colour so he sort of just blends in with the 70s decor there, we sometimes lose him for hours at a time. Jonny who owns the place is an absolute wizard as well, we love him. He always manages to squeeze the best musical juice out of us. We were gonna be there at the start of April to do some recording which is now on hold for obvious reasons so going back when all this is over is definitely top of our list. 

crush is coming up to its 2 year anniversary, do you think your sound has changed in this time?

Definitely. Fotis joined about 2 years ago but we were writing for a few months before that. A lot happens at uni and its definitely affected our interests and musical taste and in turn our songwriting. There are older songs we leave out the live set because we feel like they don’t really fit with how we write and sound now, and then some old songs we play live that sound completely different to the recording. I think playing live has been integral to us honing our sound, you get much more room to experiment and test ideas when you’re turned up to that volume. In the past few months especially we’ve tapped into something good and have been really happy with where the sound is headed. It feels like there’s something really natural happening, for a while we were probably trying too hard to write a certain way, now we’ve relaxed into it a bit we just let what happens happen and don’t overthink the writing progress. There are still parallels with the old songs, obnoxious amounts of reverb and delay are always gonna be invited to the party.