Q&A: Catcher Talks New Music Ahead of ‘All My Friends Vol. III’
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
☆ BY ALEAH ANTONIO ☆
THE LAST MUSIC WE HEARD FROM CATCHER WAS TWO YEARS AGO - The New York based post-punk outfit released their EP 30 Million Windows in 2024. The band, made of Austin Eichler, Wilson Chestney, Jack Young and Zach Mezzo, released 30 Million Windows in memory of Christian Reech, their late band member, before going quiet for the rest of the year.
By fall, they were back on the road. London first, then a slew of tour dates with fellow New Yorkers Monobloc, and later Texas for SXSW. They return home for All My Friends Vol. III at Sony Music Hall presented by The Luna Collective, sharing the stage with D’Lourdes, Beau and Monobloc.
Their music pulses with intensity, owing their core sound to bands like The Fall and Sonic Youth. However, the band tells us that there’s new music on the way and it sounds quite different than anything they’ve released before. Keep reading for our chat with the boys from Catcher about what they have ahead of them.
LUNA: It's been a few years since you released new music. Besides writing new stuff, what have the band members been up to since then?
CATCHER: Spending a lot of time in the service industry. Lots of reading, listening and watching. Zach and Jackie have both been lending their talents to some great groups outside the band (Chris Emond, Knotted, Winter to name a few), as well as working on their own projects. Zach’s been putting out music under his own name, and Jackie’s working on a groundbreaking new collab with Enne Goldstein called Winter Sports Legends. Austin and Wilson do stuff too.
LUNA: Word is that there's new music on the way - Anything you can tell us?
CATCHER: The word is true. The sound we have now and that we’ve sort of been shaping over the past two years is definitely pretty far from what the last EP sounded like. It’s not a very descriptive distinction, but I’d say its definitely less dense than the older music, musically. One interesting development is how we’ve started working on bringing some sampling into the actual songwriting process. In the past we had used an SP on stage but mostly for transitions, but for a lot of these new songs it’s an actual element of the song.
LUNA: Is there anything new you've learned about yourselves as artists after the past couple years of making new music?
CATCHER: I think more recently we’ve sort of learned, or re-learned, how important it is for us to be playing shows more often than we have in a long time. Spending long periods of time just working on writing can be great and rewarding in its own way, but playing those songs live is often where you really get reminded what it’s all about, and it just helps with momentum and energy and excitement in general.
LUNA: You toured with Monobloc last year. How are they as tour mates/show mates?
CATCHER: They’re the best, we all got along really well right off the bat. Show-wise they are pretty professional about everything, which is delightful. I can’t remember them ever being super late for anything, or really causing any problems anywhere along the way at all, yeah. Smooth sailing. Great people, great performers.
LUNA: After All My Friends Vol. Ill, what can your listeners expect from you this year?
CATCHER: Lots and lots of shows, hopefully.
