Q&A: Comfort Club’s “Foreverproof” Has No Expiration Date
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
☆ BY NINA KUDLACZ ☆
Photo By Reece Cartee
NOTHING IS FOREVER—After indie pop/rock artist Comfort Club toured his debut album across the nation in 2024, he knew it was time to start making music again.
While on tour, the crowd’s reactions to his songs inspired him to write one of his “hardest rocking songs yet,” according to a press release.
The single was born while Comfort Club was staying at a friend's house in the midst of a harsh breakup. While contemplating why the relationship ended, he stumbled upon the idea of his partner being unable to commit to forever, which led him to write “Foreverproof.”
Read below to hear more about Comfort Club’s single, music video and upcoming shows.
Photo By Reece Cartee
LUNA: Can you talk a little bit about your lyrical inspirations behind this single?
COMFORT CLUB: I was about a year or so after a breakup at that point and I was thinking a lot about why relationships fail. As I was stewing on these thoughts I came up with this word of “foreverproof,” and applying that to a person in a relationship who maybe doesn't want to be in something forever or there's some sort of shelf life to the relationship. That's something that I don't think usually gets discussed beforehand in a relationship and it doesn't really get discussed during. It's just something that someone feels.
LUNA: Can you talk a little bit about your sonic inspirations behind this single?
COMFORT CLUB: I started writing it on acoustic guitar and started trying to fill in the chorus around that word of “foreverproof” to set that up. It really spoke to the joy that you experience in a relationship but then when it ends there's still that drop of sadness within it even though everything was groovy and great. I tried it four or five different ways: I was trying acoustic, then I tried kind of an indie pop approach to it, and then I ended up in this shoegaze kind of heavy chorus vibe.
LUNA: What are your overall inspirations for your sound? Any artists or genres that really speak to you? How has that changed over time?
COMFORT CLUB: I've been drawing from a couple different pockets of my musical taste and trying to roll that all into one thing. I think a good through line for a lot of those artists is there is some melancholy nature to that music and that's always going to be the type of music that I make as well. I had to kind of grow out of that desire to try to be like my idol and instead just be like I'm a fan of that but I'm not necessarily trying to make that kind of music.
LUNA: About how many years have you been making music? How have you changed since then, both as an artist and as a person?
COMFORT CLUB: I've been making music for seven years now. I went from being very low confidence as a human being and then I started getting tastes of people being like, “Oh this is cool, I like what you're doing.” It felt like I was building something that was meaningful. The way that social media and attention spans and everything are evolving, it's really hard to know if the music you're making matters, and it's really hard to keep waking up every day and be excited about the process. I'm hoping that music and people's relationship with it shifts a little bit to where discovering new music feels like an exciting thing instead of like a commercial on TV or like a door-to-door salesman.
LUNA: How have you changed as an artist since the release of your last album?
COMFORT CLUB: I've recognized that music isn't going to 100 percent fill my cup. The way I was doing it before, I was putting all the pressure in the world on music to make me feel everything and I think that that was unhealthy. I've kind of shifted to really committing myself to music and really putting everything into it for spurts of time, and then also having days or a weekend or something where I try to just take a break from it and enjoy the other aspects of my life like spending time with my family. I think you need to have life experiences to keep being able to write and keep being able to be relatable and keep being able to connect with people in a way that feels meaningful.
LUNA: What's been giving you joy lately?
COMFORT CLUB: The world of books. That's like the number one thing that I've been obsessed with lately. Just going to used bookstores or honestly even being on TikTok and seeing people recommending books and then going and doing deep dives on the internet and trying to find copies of them.
LUNA: What is your favorite thing about making music?
COMFORT CLUB: My favorite thing about making music is when a song starts to feel like there's life to it. What I really love doing is having a finished song, I don't love the process of having to finish a song. I get to do the fun work of being like well let me sit down with the guitar for two hours and noodle over this verse section or this chorus and find melodies that make my brain feel really stimulated. Whenever I'm writing and I'm able to start going down a road that excites me, that's what I look forward to the most in music and it's something that I want to be doing way more often.
LUNA: Can you talk about the shows you are playing soon? What are you excited about for those?
COMFORT CLUB: For me it was something where I had wanted to get back out on the road, I've been touring quite a bit as a DIY act. It just feels really nice to be able to get out and play the songs in front of people, especially in places where I really like being. Being able to reconnect with all these friends and people who support my music who are out on the east coast and say hi to people, it's really nice. My friend Ethan Bermudez, who has shot the last four music videos, is coming out to New York with me and we're going to document the whole tour and the behind the scenes stuff.
LUNA: Can you talk about the music video? How did it come about? What was the inspo behind it? What are you excited about for its release?
COMFORT CLUB: Me and Ethan were talking about the song and what we wanted to do with the video and I had this concept of wanting to create a narrative where I'm in a world where someone else is kind of like quote-unquote playing god or controlling things behind the scenes, being a puppet master of sorts. It loosely felt like it was inspired by how I sometimes feel in relationships. I thought it was a unique approach to borrow from a story like The Truman Show and create a world where I'm not completely in control of the things that I'm doing, and then breaking from those shackles and seeing what it's like on the other side. It's the fourth one that me and Ethan have done together so I'm excited to keep developing our working relationship.
LUNA: What do you want people to know about you as an artist or as a person? What do you want people to know about this single?
COMFORT CLUB: My goal always as an artist is to be relatable. I've always made music to try to feel connected to other people because that's how music has felt for me and that's how my favorite artists have always made me feel. Music can really help when you're going through a breakup and then you hear a song and you're like, “Oh, this speaks to exactly how I feel right now.” I feel really deeply called to talk about those interpersonal relationships and heartbreak and abandonment. If people are going through that, I'm the right guy to listen to, and if they're not, then hopefully they like the sonics of it but I think it connects deeper.
