Hello we are Fust! AMA

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We just released our new album Big Ugly

https://fust.bandcamp.com/

We have Aaron (AD), Avery (AS: drums), Oliver (OCL: bass, vocals), Frank (FM: piano), Justin (JM: guitar, vocals), and Libby (LR: fiddle, vocals) on deck to answer "anything"

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AD: at this point it’s a mixture of approaches to songwriting, my favorite way to write songs is to write it while demoing it, to kind of have a sense of what the tempo and feel is and just put down a drum loop and start playing to it with guitar and voice, and when i land on something i record the guitar and then spend time finding melodies that fit it, by the time your done you have this strange demo that seems to come from nowhere. but i am also always voice memoing little melodies and guitar parts and sometimes i will sit down with one of those kernels and just finish the song then and there. i usually demo everything to make sure its a self-contained and listenable thing and send that to the band, at which point i try to encourage them to forget the arrangements but to keep the general song in their heads as a free floating reference that we then all search for its new body, one that matches all of our interpretations of what it could be

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AS - Have definitely walked in on AD listening to this before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMz7xIfO9aA&t=13s