Q: What are PHASE’s expectations about it? Life is a story by itself, what are the main themes that are concerning your new album.

One of the themes touched upon, is that in our immature narcissistic social reality people never live in the present. Which equals they don’t actually live. People are always expectant of something, they always set imaginary goals, to be looking forward to. To graduate, to grow up, to get to go out and compare clothing, to get to get wasted, to have sex, go on holidays, to meet their significant other and then another and another, to I don’t know what. No one’s sits and waits, experiencing the moment. Hardly anyone stays here and listens any more. There’s people nowadays go to the beach to take a few pictures, just to fool themselves pretending they had a great time, or to impress people they don’t care about. Never before in history that was so widespread or intense. It wasn’t even a thing. Another intertwined theme is that life is this endless wait and that this wait is what makes us who we are. To be honest, the album is way too multidimensional to be described in a few sentences, so we invite you to experience it, the way it was intended to experience that.

Q: How would you describe your new material?

As a commentaty on social reality and human condition. A thing we are trying to do, is to challenge the patterns that are built in us all. In our collective subconscious. Mass media have the power to dictate and shape preference, and the less critical someone is, the more receptive, mimic and prone to what I love to call ‘Trojan Thoughts‘ they can be. Immature people have a really reinforced sense of specialness and their overflowing arrogance makes them have an illusion of personal opinion and taste. We really want to challenge that on so many levels by not conforming to the norm and being confrontational about it. In my opinion “the Wait” is brilliant food for thought and so many of its features are bringing forward what a travesty personal opinion can be and how preference is being mapped in the Oedipal Universe we are set into.

Interviewer: Dana Țolea
Publication: Jurnal Rock [RO]
Period: February 2014