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Yes, they’re electro. And if you don’t like it, you can shove it up yours because they’re not changing for anyone.
Hailing from Melbourne, Naçional are four-piece band hell-bent on smashing together all facets of electronic music into one tight fuzz-ball of noise. Drawing influences from heavy industrial gods like Trent Reznor to the boppy dance sensibilities of Blondie, this local quartet are just about to head into the studio to record their debut EP.
Drummer Nathan Bobik stopped by Paper-Deer central to have a chat before locking himself into the recording studio.
So the name “Naçional” is… French? Spanish? What’s the story behind your exotically foreign band name?
The name actually comes from Los Angeles - I used to go to club called Naçional and it was a tiny place with this incredibly dark and dirty atmosphere. Kind of claustrophobic, almost like a bit of a maze but it played a lot of good music. When we were thinking of names I just remember the place and thought, “Why don’t we work with this for now?” It seemed to fit with the ideas we had in our heads, and we just never changed it.
There is a massive electro-rock scene in Melbourne. How does Naçional keep things sounding fresh and different from the rest of the pack?
We’re probably a little different because we have quite a big industrial influence. Although I think almost every type of music fits into electro rock these days. Everything from Katy Perry to Nine Inch Nails – it’s the most overused term used in music today.
From our perspective, we’re just making the type of music that we love, if it’s current and relevant then great. If it’s different from the rest of the pack, even better… and if it’s shockingly behind and overdone, well then there’s nothing we can do about it right now because we still love it and don’t really want to change it!
We hear the Naçional gang is headed into the studio to record your debut EP. How are you planning on bottling up your live energy into .wav files?
We’ll let you know as soon as we figure that out ourselves! We’ve spent quite a lot of time demo-ing in Matt’s studio so technically we already have the tracks recorded, we’ve just never released them. We know the way we want them to be recorded, but we just wanted to make sure we’d written enough tracks so we could actually choose the ones we wanted to record rather than record every track written.
Ace thinking. When can we expect to get a copy of your EP in our hot little hands?
Hopefully, start of November… Most likely? Middle of November…
What’s the funniest thing that has ever happened at a Naçional gig?
Matt Sofo backstage. I really don’t need to say anymore. The image is burnt into everyone’s minds for life.
DATES:
- Thursday November 4: Croxton Park Hotel [supporting Calling All Cars]
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