Gabe Maas of The Bruins stopped by WYSO ahead of the band's summer performances and talked with Kaleidoscope host Juliet Fromholt about the band's evolving sound and work flow.
Recently The Bruins added a new descriptor to their Instagram bio, "yacht pop."
"[It] kind of all stays under a big umbrella, I feel like, but our sound is like this little revolving door of what we are into at the moment, which is kind of nice. Yeah, Yacht Pop, it's just the vibe right now. It's just good vibes. Not so intense as your classic radio pop." said keyboardist Gabe Maas.
Bass player Austin Labig recently acquired a space at Dayton Sound Studios, which the band uses for rehearsals, recording and experimentation.
"We have our own studio space to work out of now," said Maas. "So we can all come together and write at the same time and also track at the same time while we write to get really easy, natural scratches. That's also kind of why the sound is evolving so much too it's because we're evolving as a band in collaboration and learning how well we work together. Then also we're upgrading as we get older, having better equipment, and we're learning how to do things better and faster."
On June 21 The Bruins will perform live with Bear the Moon and Wreck League at Oregon Express. Gabe Maas expressed his admiration for Wrekc League as being a local band that inspired him growing up.
"Those guys I think of as like mentors, because they really helped me when I was early 20s, late teens, to see how gross being a musician can really be in the summer- in the back of a van, what tour life is really like, and it was just really humbling. It was also just refreshing to see guys have fun and be friends and play music together, at whatever cost."
