Interview with The Greeting Committee

We had the pleasure of interviewing The Greeting Comittee over Zoom video! Kansas City-based alt-rock band The Greeting Committee just released their second studio album Dandelion. The record was produced by Jennifer Decilveo (MARINA, FLETCHER, Bat for Lashes) and mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Tame Impala). Anchored by a gorgeously airy vocal performance from frontwoman Addie Sartino, the recent single, "Float Away" opens on a candid piece of confession: "Glad it's raining so I don't have to go outside and pretend I'm happy just to be alive." With production from Jennifer Decilveo (MARINA, FLETCHER, Bat for Lashes), the track unfolds in fuzzed-out riffs, frenetic rhythms, and incandescent textures as Sartino documents her inner turmoil with an intense level of detail. "There's a line in the chorus that says, 'Stale rye, once an apple's eye,' which is a way of saying, 'I used to have so much potential, and now I'm sitting here frozen, and I don't know what to do with myself,'" she notes. After slipping into a moment of anti-nostalgia ("Haven't felt this since/Listening to the 1975 while getting high/In somebody's basement party"), "Float Away" closes out with another bit of personal revelation: "Treading water's getting harder/Don't let me fall another martyr." But despite its undeniable melancholy, "Float Away" embodies a strangely exhilarating energy thanks to the stormy urgency of The Greeting Committee's sound and the pure catharsis of its uncompromising honesty. Created by illustrator/animator Kezia Gabriella, the video for "Float Away" perfectly captures the track's whirlwind of feeling. The beautifully offbeat and brightly colorful visual follows Sartino's avatar through a series of gently articulated emotional states — isolation, disconnection, overwhelmed confusion — and ultimately finds her rediscovering a subtle yet powerful sense of hope. About The Greeting Committee: Comprised of Addie Sartino, Brandon Yangmi, Pierce Turcotte, and Austin Fraser, The Greeting Committee have fully embraced a spirit of purposeful sharing since their formation in 2014. Founded soon after Sartino and Yangmi got their start playing open-mic nights in Kansas City, the band self-released their debut EP It's Not All That Bad in fall 2015. The EP's lead single "Hands Down" quickly became a breakout hit, paving the way for The Greeting Committee's signing to Harvest Records when they were all still in high school. After making their Harvest debut with the Meeting People Is Easy EP in 2017 and releasing their debut album This Is It in 2018, the band spent much of the next few years on the road, with sold-out headline shows in major markets such as Chicago, Austin, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. To date, they've toured with the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, Tennis, Hippo Campus, and Rainbow Kitten Surprise and taken the stage at leading festivals like Lollapalooza and SXSW, in addition to delivering the I'm Afraid I'm Not Angry EP in late 2019 and appearing in Netflix's To All the Boys: Always and Forever. The band's second album Dandelion was released on September 24 via Harvest Records. We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com. www.BringinitBackwards.com #podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #TheGreetingCommittee #zoom #Dandelion Listen & Subscribe to BiB Follow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bringin-it-backwards--4972373/support. https://bringinitbackwards.com/