Roll of the Dice: 4 questions with Savings

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Roll of the Dice is a short interview format with a variable amount of questions. A pair of dice is rolled and the total, between 2 and 12, is the amount of questions we can ask. All questions are given to the interviewee(s) at once, and no follow-ups are allowed. The interview may be lightly edited for content and clarity.

Earlier today, Albuquerque emo upstarts Savings dropped the new single “Driving Blind.” To celebrate the new track, the band was kind enough to join TGEFM for the latest in our Roll of the Dice interview series. Check out the single below and keep reading for our interview.

Thank you so much for agreeing to this interview.  Unfortunately the dice were quite fickle and only gave us 4 questions.  What should TGEFM readers know about Savings, your sound and what you’ve got in pipeline for 2024? 

Thank you so much for having us, we really appreciate it! Savings has been a band for roughly two years now, our sound has fallen into a pool of indie rock, shoegaze esque and or Emo as a whole. Nonetheless, this next single is a B-side from our last EP Get Well Soon and we feel like it’s a nice gift wrapped in the 90’s sound we like to think we established on that project. Moving forward with this next ep we’re writing we don’t necessarily want to fall into a genre so to speak but just write music that we’re all happy with because it’s truly authentic. Not that anything in the past is disingenuous but we wanna stop worrying about what’s popular or trending and just write what we want to write and then let the music speak for itself. That being said, We’ll have another EP out this year, a couple singles and a whole lotta west coast dates.

We’ve all got a few, what is your biggest regret? A gig you turned down, advice you didn’t take, what one thing do you wish you handled differently as a musician?

Truthfully I don’t think we have too many regrets as a band, we started this band because we all love music and what it means to our own individual lives, and the fact that we get the opportunity to do the things we do is a blessing in itself. That being said, we’re all constantly learning how to do this everyday and love what the journey has looked like and we’re stoked for the future of this band.

What have been some of the most memorable moments or experiences as a touring musician so far? What’s been the most unexpected? The weirdest? 

We were playing in Denver not too long ago, but reflecting on that time I think the most memorable time for us as a band is being able to spend time doing what we love with our best friends. Between the inside jokes, gas station diets, and actually getting to play shows to people we’ve never met; it’s all something we don’t take for granted. Nonetheless, apart from that we’ve gotten to meet a lot of bands/people we’ve looked up to for a long time and being able to call a lot of them friends is truly surreal to us. 

One of our obligatory questions in these interviews also tends to be the one I have found most important on a personal level. Who are some bands on your radar that TGEFM readers may not know about, but you think they should know about?

Oh most definitely our friends in Right On, Kid! They taught us everything we know and we love the hell outta those boys lol. Apart from them Relate is a dope band out of Denver, Troubled Minds out in Phoenix, New Aesthetic out in Cali, the list goes on and on haha.