Today, we sat down with Ask Carol to discuss their inspiration to write music, heroes, and much more! Be sure to check out the music of Ask Carol on Spotify below after the interview.
Interview:
What is your inspiration to write your music? Is it your surroundings?
Yes, our surroundings are definitely part of it! We live in a very remote place, surrounded by mountains and forest, with 7-8 months of the year being very cold and dark. This adds to the melancholy in our music, it is a natural effect of living in such conditions. Other things that inspire us are things that happen in the world, discovering new (or new old) music, and our travels, like our road trips in the desert.
What type of music did you listen to growing up?
We both listened to a lot of different stuff. Early on it was stuff our parents put, a lot of old school rock, but getting older we found our own stuff. Like for example Ask listened a lot to The Clash, and Carol listened a lot to Nirvana, just to mention a couple. Our musical taste were, and still is very varied, so it could range from calm Norah Jones, to RnB and hip hop like Lauryn Hill or the Beastie Boys, to grunge and even metal.
Is there someone you looked to up as a hero?
Oh yea, our mutual hero, or our only God as we like to say, is the one and only Jimi Hendrix, the most legendary guitar player. From we both started playing guitar, Hendrix has been a hero of ours, it’s one of our mutual musical influences.
If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing today?
No idea, there is no alternative to music for us. It never has been. Haven’t crossed our minds really. I guess Carol would be a candy inventer and Ask a cake taster.
What can you tell us about your new single ‘Cold July’?
It’s our very first acoustic song. After touring internationally non stop for about 2-3 years, playing loud energetic music, it felt very good to take it down a notch, and do a low key, totally stripped down, chill tune. Lyrically it’s inspired by the state of the world, and activists like Greta Thunberg. Musically, some people say it echoes the 60s protest music, and blends haunting vocals and fingerpicked guitar in the vein of Elliott Smith, José González, and early Dylan.
What advice do you have for our fans out there that want to create music?
Just do it! That’s one of our mottos: “Gonna Do It”, if you want to do something, you just gotta do it. But you’ll have to want it, and you’ll have to put down the work. It’s not gonna be is. But if you want it, just do it, don’t wait! It was actually the first ever song we wrote and released, “Gonna Do It”. It pretty much sums it up.
Music:
