Clementine Zawadzki: Being brothers, what was your relationship like growing up?
Ronnel Raphael: Very good, Loral took care of me; he paid for my tadpoles’ funeral and decorated the house in velvet.
Loral Raphael: My brother Ronnel, his arms are like rivers, overflowed with kindness. If you cross him, however, you will live in a place of darkness, under the surface of earth.

CZ: When did you begin to make music together?
RL: I was writing a lot in boarding school, I turned my boarding school dorm room into a studio and started recording on this tape machine, but it wasn’t until the Eating People video that it became clear that we were going to start a band together.
LR: I filmed that video with no intention of it having any continuity. I thought it would be interesting to document our first attempt to perform live, and that first attempt took place at the boarding school, during morning service.

CZ: Your lyrics deal a lot with religion and ideologies. Where does this come from? What’s the inspiration behind it?
RL: Religion offers practical implications even in the age of space travel. I look up to Jesus and the prophets, not from a religious perspective but as a model of success, how what initially began as a marginal movement transcended cultural boundaries. What we are about to do is no different.

CZ: Would you say you’re philosophical?
RL: I am much more fond of theology, although the two overlap.
LR: Our father always says, “Be good to rock ‘n’ roll and rock ‘n’ roll will be good to you.”

CZ: What do you have faith in above all else and why?
RL: God. I’ve felt Him out alone in the desert at night.

CZ: Eating People and Rio are also on your debut EP. What can you tell us about the other tracks?
RL: Both other tracks, A Nation of Bloodsuckers and Jesus, I wrote one night for a talent show in boarding school. Needless to say, I won.

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