Anteros announce debut album ‘When We Land’

Well we’ve just finished the album! It’s crazy how much more work is involved, once you’ve finished recording it. We also went out to Morocco to shoot some music videos for singles. And we’ve been getting all the assets together, all the artwork, trying to think where we wanna go with it.

The album for us was like an initiation into life in your twenties. I think you hit your twenties and you realise you actually don’t know a lot about life and you have to start figuring everything out from there, so the whole album is about life lessons in a way. We recorded it with Charlie Andrew who’s worked with some amazing artists like Marika Hackman and alt-J and Crystal Fighters. A lot of it was recorded live as well. It’s been an awesome experience to have the chance to be like, ‘this is our slower song’ or ‘this is going to be the more vulnerable one’, because up until now, it’s all been quite uptempo.

Yeah, it’s a bit of wildcard. I wrote the song when my grandmother passed away and the same week I found out that my dad was having a child with his wife, so it was almost like I lost one of the most important female role models in my life and found out about the new one being born at the same time. I don’t know if I’m supposed to be mourning or if I should be happy but at the same time: quite a modern family scenario. It’s quite a special song for me.

Definitely, there’s a couple of new songs out there that I’m really excited to play. You’ve actually caught me customising merch [for the tour]; I’m starting to find clothes that I can wear on stage and splatter them with paint and customise them. It’s quite nice to have that personal touch on tour as well. We’re focusing on trying to enjoy it now and make it as special as we can.

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