Interview: Mumble Tide – “They say don’t mix relationships and bands, but it’s worked out pretty well”

Even if they were almost certainly insular and unwelcoming at points, the results speak for themselves. Everything Ugly is a calling card for everything Mumble Tide can do – and could go on to become, from winsome indie-pop to Sonic Youth-esque burners to glitchy art rockers to resonant torch songs.

“With this batch of Mumble Tide tracks I just wanted to come at it from as many angles as possible because we had the time and we weren’t taking it to a big studio where time mattered. We were just doing everything here,” Ryan says. “The way we work is such a blur, we just get lost in it.”

“We often go into the night when we get into a mode,” Gina adds. “It’s so chaotic, we would never be able to write it down.”

I spoke to the lovely duo and couple Ryan Rogers and Gina Leonard, aka Mumble Tide, about their story so far and their wonderful new mini album. Read up over on BPM.