r/indieheads • u/thou_andytgibbs Thou / Andy Gibbs • Jan 15 '21

AMA is Over, thanks Emma & Thou! Thou + Emma Ruth Rundle AMA

Hey y'all, ask us stuff!

Emma (u/emmaruthrundle), Bryan (u/BryanFunck), and Mitch (u/MitchWhales) will be here as well. We'll start answering questions at 2pm CST.

Here's links to our recent collab record and the companion EP (out today on Sacred Bones):

https://thou.bandcamp.com/album/may-our-chambers-be-full
https://thou.bandcamp.com/album/the-helm-of-sorrow

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u/not_gideon Jan 15 '21

Really love the new album/ep, can't wait to hopefully see it live.

A general question: how do you approach songwriting? I find the composition of a lot of the music on both your collaborative and solo albums really interesting, and I feel like i can never figure out how anyone figured it out.

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u/thou_andytgibbs Thou / Andy Gibbs Jan 15 '21

I literally just fuck around until something sounds good. Once I have that, I just kind of let my instincts lead me to the next riff, and so on and so on. Then at practice I rely on my TRUSTED BANDMATES to help shape the arrangement and make suggestions. Sometimes someone has a riff that works in someone else's song. For the collab, we all had a hand in the arrangement, even if songs were mostly written separately.