‘Smash Into Pieces’ always does something new! This band just goes with the flow, the members said that they don’t want to have boundaries, so you never know what  their next record is going to be. The guys from Sweden had an awesome tour in Europe last year, and they also visited Hungary. We had a little chat in Budapest with Chris Adam and Benjamin Jennebo about the beginnings and the album called Evolver.
Last year was all about the #LIVEINEUROPE2018 tour. Could you share with us your best stories about it?
Chris Adam: We just had a really good time with all the bands, we are this huge weird family and I don’t think that I don’t like one single person on this tour. We all like each other so much, so it was like touring with nineteen best friends. We had a lot of good nights, with lot of partying, just had a really good time, you know. I don’t have one specific memory.. Yes, I do have actually. That was when I tried to do my crowdsourfing in London and I aimed at the wrong people and they couldn’t catch me so I was just falling down on the floor. That was kind of fun. Everyone laughed.

Benjamin Jennebo: Your most embarassing moment! I think my favourite night was in Munich, there were like three hundred people, no more, but the tension, it was like a rave party, it was an incredible night. Was it because of Friday, because it was so much party?

What is the most important thing that you could tell us about your years in the band?
Chris Adam: In my personal view I think just me doing music, that is my biggest thing, I didn’t plan to do music. I just was a music lover and then Benjamin came into my school band because we needed a bass player, back then and he was just like „Please join my band instead!” so the most important thing for me is doing music instead of something else. I don’t think that things actually can compete with that feeling for me. Music is my savior.

Benjamin Jennebo: It is always be curious about the future, like I got no boundaries when I create and I think it is important that people around you are into the same thing, you want to walk on the same road together. It is like old bands stuck in the old ways to see, but ‘Smash Into Pieces’ always does something new. Now we have a DJ in the band, now we have a LED wall, songs that are different than it were before and people are like „What are you doing?”.

Chris Adam: But still they buy it.

Benjamin Jennebo: But I think it is really important because you want people to look at you like a person, that’s important for me. When I meet a person 2 years after we met last time I want that person to see „ohh, you changed!”. That is important for me all this change.You are calling your latest album a game changer. What does it mean to you?
Chris Adam: Just the way we did songs for this record, like he said, we don’t have boundaries. We go with the flow. We just wanted to not have boundaries, you know I think that’s the game changer. We wanted to shock a little, you know what I’m saying, and we were not afraid of it as well, not afraid at all to take this leap forward, and that’s the funniest thing to be in ‘Smash Into Pieces’ you never know how the next record is gonna be.

What is the biggest difference between this album and the previous ones?
Chris Adam: You tell me! (laughing)

Benjamin Jennebo: No, the biggest difference is, like, as a songwriter if you do something and love something really really much it’s like you are owning that thing, and if you are getting better in  doing that, it is gonna be better stuff and so many hours, so many days, so many years put into it. As songwriters, we feel the first album from 10 years ago, as a band we did the best thing of it, but today we are 10 years better. I think the way we have better connection with ourselves, so when we tell a story we know from the experience, how we have handled it, now ‘Smash Into Pieces’ stands for how you handle your struggles, life lessons, it is easy to be a victim, it is hard to be the teacher, be like a master so not let things break you down, find a way to …

Chris Adam: …to release it for example we with the songs!

Benjamin Jennebo: Yes, we always want to complete with ourselves. We are like „Yes man”, we say yes to try new things, maybe they don’t work but as long we learn from those things, always try another way forward.

The video for In Need Of Medicine is dealing with a really serious story. Could you tell us the story behind the song and the video?
Benjamin Jennebo: I think two stories wound up, because I wrote it as me and Chris have always talked a lot about our childhood and we are like the black sheeps in our families. He is much more than I am. He had a hard life and a lot of people would make that a distracted life, but I think what we do is a productive life instead, that makes this to something powerful. I have kinda same story about my life, I was struggling with my inner self, that’s why I sing my beasts for example. And when we talked about In Need Of Medicinem I had the melody, I had everything, but then we talked about Chris Adam’s story and we wrote a lyrics.

Chris Adam: The things you see in the video are based on a story that happened to me and you know it’s a little bit over produced, but it is still based on a true story that happened with me and my mom, but obviously she is not dead, it is the Hollywood version of what happened. Banjo wrote the song and we talked about this stuff in the studio and we recorded the song and I actually remember a little bit like when I was in the studio I had this whole feeling of this story when I recorded vocals so I really tried to put some really good feelings into the vocals. It’s a story about me and it’s Banjo’s song, it is a good collaboration.

Benjamin Jennebo:  But the review it’s a story about Chris Adam, he had that situation we were talking about a lot and we were like, “this is really strong”.

Chris Adam: It is kinda nice to done this song and video because now I can just leave the past, now I can move on, that was nice for a change.

What are your plans for this year?
Chris Adam: Be the biggest band in the world!! No, but there are huge things coming.

Check out the guys’ new video, called Human!

Fotók: Horváth Rea

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