Paul Hernandez |
Barcelona (EFE) what we have done so far,” they say in an interview with EFE.
In this way, Klaus Stroink, Guillem Boltó and Rai Benet definitively leave behind the times when they shared a flat on Balmes street in Barcelona and played hopeful songs from their terrace to cheer people up during the pandemic.
“I don’t think we’ve changed that much; simply now we have passed more than two years of existence as a group and it has given us time to stop and think about what we want to do and calmly decide the direction of this group; For the rest, we continue to be the same, with the same or even more desire to make music”, declares Boltó.
“HOMAS”, second disc
The title of the new album, “HOMAS”, in capital letters, is based on the idea that the Homas invite people to their house, where, according to Stroink, they will find them “trying to show them what we have been doing this last year, the answer to the question we have been asking ourselves: what are we doing in music and, artistically, what can we contribute”.
However, for the Homas their new work is “quite difficult to define, just as it is difficult to define the music we make in general because we play many styles, we sing in different languages, we do different styles, and, although it was something we wanted to try to limit on this album, we haven’t achieved it”.
“In general, we talk a lot about things that have happened to us or about others that we would like to happen to us, and also about things that we have more or less experienced up close, because I think it is a bit difficult for us to write about something we don’t know. ”, reveals Benet about the lyrics of the songs on the new album.
For the members of the group, “the Stay Homas sound does not exist”, and, for this reason, the songs that make up their second album present a wide variety of musical genres, from different periods and origins, ranging from pop to reggaeton, acoustic music, pop punk or techno, among others.
Asked about the songs of “HOMAS” in which they see the most chances of success, becoming some of their great anthems, the Catalan musicians admit that they would like it to happen “with many of them”, although it is not something in which they stop to “think too much”.
“Once the record comes out, we do think about which song is more likely for people to learn it faster, to be closer or for the radio to buy it sooner, but I don’t want to wait for anything because later you take a surprise”, explains Stroink.
“Of the fourteen songs that complete the album, there are fifteen that have been left out,” the Homas say, and add: “There is everything, some that were a very primary idea that we did not develop and others that we were going to put in and discard because the same there was a lot of a style, a style or a feeling”.
Regarding the process of making the album, Benet describes that it has gone through “many different stages”, although, comparatively, they have had “a lot of writing time and very little production” and, in fact, “the production of the album has been very chaotic and very fast”.
However, the months that the Stay Homas have spent working on their new album have not made them want to live together again, since in the last three months they have had to see each other “every day, all day and every day.” days of the week”, and, above all, because they are “friends or party companions, rather than roommates”.
Reflecting on whether, thanks to work like this, they will ever be able to remove the “lockdown group” label, Stroink confesses: “Frankly, I don’t know if that will ever happen, if it’s a label that can be easily removed or if we want it to disappear; I think it’s cool to put other labels on top of this one.”
On the other hand, Boltó considers that “there are people who have already removed this label from us and have been following us throughout this time, just as there are others who still stop us and tell us that we are happy about the pandemic, that we may not have it.” will never remove; It is something we will surely have to live with.”