Mariana Viseu Malaparte: In two years you managed to record two albums, play an overseas tour and you are all still under 21. Do you find that people still treat you like a bunch of kids in an amateur band?
Jazz Rodríguez Bueno: Sometimes, but it’s happening less now. The first tour was just people thinking, “These are just kids!” They only respected us after listening to our songs.
Antonio Postius: When we first went on tour we had a lot of problems with people treating us in a condescending way, like kids. They thought we were cute and stuff…“I’m taller than you, you know?” [Laughs]

MVM: Do you think that your music itself has evolved since?
JRB: Yes, we have learnt a lot! I’m a better guitar player now, so I can try new things.
AP: The fact that we play every day made us better as a band and individually with our instruments. When we first started I was about to quit music. By then I already have had a few bands, but I’d also had a lot of failure and I didn’t see any point of making music. I didn’t want to play or know anything about the stardom, I was truly disappointed… One month later I was in Mourn recording. And now I want to do music more than ever.

MVM: And did the influences change from the beginning?
JRB: Yes. But we don’t think about other bands while we are writing. We all listen to different bands and then we share some songs between each other. I do think that our music is a mix. Probably the band that influenced this second album the most was Throwing Muses. I was listening to them daily when I was on the bus going to school and I think you can hear that reflected in our music.

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