interview | in color

It doesn’t really snow that often in Nashville, but when it does, it doesn’t just shut down highways and the downtown core. Sometimes, it starts bands. For alt-rock risers In Color, a winter storm that stranded them together in a house full of guitars, half-written ideas, and long conversations became the unlikely beginning of something much more lasting. At the time, they were simply friends orbiting the same creative circles; musicians who had played in other projects, chasing fulfillment but feeling the need for something new. The storm, which was just an inconvenience at the time, eventually became the catalyst for everything that was — and still is — to come. They wrote, talked, and stayed up late. Eventually, after everything melted, a text landed in the group chat: “Guys, we would look really cool as a band.” It wasn’t about strategy or streaming numbers, and it wasn’t even really about the songs. It was a shared feeling between the band, which consists of Holden Clontz, Matt Hastings, Val Hoyt, and Miles Laderman, that quietly turned into a year of private building what In Color would be: writing in cabins, obsessing over details, refusing to announce themselves until they knew exactly who... Read more » The post interview | in color appeared first on Schön! Magazine.