“Nothing amazes me any more. I mean literally every day somebody tells me, ‘Oh did you hear Trump said this shit?’ At this point, nothing amazes me.”
The world has changed in the three years since LA punks FIDLAR put out their last record ‘Too’, and even more so since their 2013 self-titled debut. Having made their name singing about drinking, skating and getting high, ‘Too’ saw them contend with overdoses and death, but also carefree abandon on the magnificent ‘West Coast’.
With the band briefly in the UK for a short summer tour, vocalist Zac Carper is forthright about the madness engulfing his homeland, and the effect it’s had on him.
“Our community is… America is so fucked up; it’s so fucked up right now. I’ve always thought America has been the laughing stock of the world generally, but it has become so prevalent right now. I’ve totally accepted that. Like, yeah cool, you know what? We’re fucked.”
FIDLAR haven’t let the fake news dystopia bog them down in their time off, with a new album in the bag, just waiting for sign-off from the higher-ups. Carper admits that despite their reputation as a feel-good band, the American carnage couldn’t help but creep into the writing of the new record.
“There are definitely some lyrics about all that on the new record, what we’ve been going through as the members of an American society, and travelling and touring. There’s even a song where the second lyric is like ‘fuck America’. We’re on a trip of trying to make music that’s reflective of what we’ve been going through the last couple years.”
