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Eventually we were like \u2018fuck it – we don\u2019t know what to do let\u2019s just go a bit Brian Eno on it\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The two sides of this single release, The Exchange and Warped, were mostly recorded during quarantine. Having put down the drums just before the lockdown started the band then spent weeks developing the songs, live streaming their logic files to each other over skype calls. \u201cIn a way it was a really good way of doing it,\u201d explains Rishi \u201cAfter the tour we were toying with the idea of heading into a studio, paying a lot of money and smashing it out in three days just to kind of get it down. But then lockdown happened and it forced us to work in a new way. It\u2019s really helped us to find our sound. Because we’ve had the time we\u2019ve constantly revised the songs and thought about how this first release can encapsulate the sound we want going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find their sound they did, this is particularly apparent on The Exchange, which moves from psychedelic indie to a tighter more dance music inspired outro that developed as a result of the protracted recording process. Fin explains, \u201cWe were wrestling with it because we had this way of doing it live that built and built into this rocky maelstrom of sound and that\u2019s fine but\u2026 when we came to record it we weren\u2019t happy with that. Eventually we were like \u2018fuck it – we don\u2019t know what to do let\u2019s just go a bit Brian Eno on it\u2019 and just chuck everything out the window and do something completely different. It actually came together in one evening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hive Society are most easily described as an indie band and indie boys from Brighton could be a genre in itself. This is something that Rishi isn\u2019t entirely comfortable with \u201cI find it so difficult, on BBC introducing for example, when we\u2019re uploading our songs and it\u2019s like \u201cname your genre\u201d and the only one we can put ourselves into is rock and indie but that comes with so many connotations.\u201d Fin adds \u201cWe\u2019re desperate not to be just another turn of the mill, indie rock band. That is dead and we\u2019re trying to do something a bit more interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first single is being released on Airdriver Records, a new DIY label and monthly event series that the band are setting up which is launching with the new single on the 10th of July. \u201cIt\u2019s a new Brighton based collective, we\u2019re hoping to be more than just music so music visual arts. The idea is to create a scene in Brighton around airdriver where we support artists from all kinds of backgrounds and walks of life\u201d explains Fin. \u201cWe\u2019re lucky that Brighton is our base because it really is a fantastic place to start a label. There\u2019s such a thriving scene here and everyone is so passionate. Obviously trying to start a label and event series in London is a fucking nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus of Airdriver is quality music <\/em>but without a genre specific focus it can be hard to work out what sets the project apart from others. Jasper goes on to say how the aim of Airdriver is to become a collaborative project which is set apart by collective that makes it up, \u201cI think what makes us unique will be this team of creatives we work with and that anyone who wants to be part of the Airdriver scene can collaborate with us and we become a community in ourselves. This means we don\u2019t have to be genre specific as we have this mentality where we help each other out and boost each other up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n