Meet Boyish: Your New Favorite Indie Alternative Band

[UNPUBLISHED:] Tell us about yourself.

[BOYISH:] We're Boyish, we're an indie alternative band. We met in Boston at college because India needed a guitarist for an audition. We didn't get the audition, however, there was a burrito place down the street from Berklee that said they needed musicians. If you played you got a free burrito and that's how we got our start.

[UNPUBLISHED:] When did both of you start making music?

[BOYISH:] I [Claire] started when I was really young. My dad's a musician. He's a guitar player and played in a band. I always wanted to join his band so I started as a drummer when I was six. I really wanted to play guitar but I was nervous to because it was really intimidating. I started playing guitar when I was nine then kept going from there.

I [India] didn't start music until I was in high school. I was a competitive gymnast for most of my life and then got injured and was looking for something to take its place. I auditioned for LaGuardia High School here in New York and got in for singing on a whim and fell in love with it. I started writing music and that's how I heard about Berklee and really fell in love with songwriting.

[UNPUBLISHED:] What is your process for making music?

[BOYISH:] It's changing which is fun. In the past, we thought of separate ideas and then brought it to each other and then worked on it from there. With a lot of our new stuff, we're trying to sit in the room together and start something totally from scratch. It’s fun to see where it'll go. We've been giving ourselves an hour to see what could come out of it. It works out most of the time, it's just kind of a weird process but it's very fun to explore.

[UNPUBLISHED:] Tell us about your new single, “Your Best Friend”.

[BOYISH:] It was one of the first songs we started writing over quarantine. We started writing it in March, really soon after everything shut down. We were navigating how to write together from different states and we used Zoom for the first time – imagine that. We were sending sessions back and forth and eventually, it turned out to be the demo. We wrote the whole song verse by verse like, each person sending it back and forth. It's a true pandemic song based on this idea of leaving somebody you love at the airport and not being sure when you'll see them again.

[UNPUBLISHED:] How do you want people to feel when they listen to your music?

[BOYISH:] I think nostalgic. That's my goal, to make you go back to something. I always like to write to my high school self, I just hold on to that person still inside of me. I always loved writing things that make me feel like I'm 17 again. I think that's what I want listeners to feel like – when you got the world at your fingertips and you're just figuring stuff out for the first time. When you're a teenager you feel everything so intensely and I would love for music to recreate that feeling in people. That's my favorite kind of music.

[UNPUBLISHED:] If you could describe your music in three words, what would they be?

[BOYISH:] Youthful, energy, fuzzy.

[UNPUBLISHED:] Do you guys have a dream collab?

[BOYISH:] Phoebe Bridgers, she's the best songwriter right now. Beabadoobee, I think she's so cool and her music is amazing. I love the production on her songs and she just is so cool.

[UNPUBLISHED:] What can you tell us about your EP that is coming out next month?

[BOYISH:] It's called, “We're All Gonna Die but Here's My Contribution”. We came up with that at the height of quarantine. We wanted to write a quarantine album but not have it be about the pandemic at all. We want to avoid writing more music about specifically what was happening but have those emotions be encapsulated in it. The EP has four songs: Superstar, whatshisname, Your Best Friend, and one more which is the last one. I think it's our most authentic writing thus far. We took time to put feeling and heart into every single part of it, whereas before we were just churning stuff out.

[UNPUBLISHED:] Do you have anything else that we should be on the lookout for?

[BOYISH:] There's going to be another music video coming out with the EP drop.

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