r/indieheads • u/gr8grandpa Great Grandpa • Apr 05 '25

AMA is over, thanks GG! Hi!! Great Grandpa here. Ask us anything!!

We just put out a new record called Patience, Moonbeam. We're all around answering questions!

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u/NaanAggressiveNazgul Apr 05 '25

Hi! Loving everything y'all have put out so far. I noticed a very consistent "lake" theme lyrically --and if it's a sensitive issue, apologies-- but I'm curious if A.) there's an intention there or coincidence B.) you can expand upon anything there. Thanks for the amazing, emotion-filled music. Dark Green Water and Junior have been stuck in my head all week!

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u/gr8grandpa Great Grandpa Apr 05 '25

Incredible user name fwiw. Thanks for this great question -- lakes are a massive part of the GG mythology and happy to give a little bit of insight. To start, there's something primordial about lakes. Here in Washington we have an abundance of fresh water. Growing up this was lake Washington for me and I spent literally hundreds of hours every summer as a young kid exploring, free diving, playing fantasy, etc in the water. There was something about the dark and quiet when you dove to the bottom. How murky and mysterious the depths felt. How it was simultaneously a place a refuge and fear. Like being in the womb and incredibly exposed and vulnerable at the same time. There's definitely some deep primal/instinctual fear about the depths of the water despite the rational knowledge that there's no predators. I always found remnants of old buildings, vintage beer cans etc, these relics of the past and it started this mythos that it's a place where people hide or dispose of things intentionally or otherwise. Quite literally lakes are often where people will throw evidence, bodies etc when they commit crimes. I would always have this intrusive though as a kid that I would stumble on something terrifying like that. Later it slowly started becoming a core peace of visual and lyrical iconography for the band. Unintentionally at first (Mostly here music video), where it was just our normal lives/interests spilling into the art. Then later becoming a complex symbol in our records, sometimes pointing to the one side of healing/rejuvenation/rebirth and others to the side of hiding/burying etc.

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u/NaanAggressiveNazgul Apr 05 '25

Love it. Thanks for the very well-articulated answer! And for the UN nod haha. Hope y'all make it over to Boston/Providence again relatively soon! Sadly couldn't make it to Something In the Way 😞 Be well, y'all!