Who are some of your major musical influences at the moment?

Mudd the student: I get inspiration not only from music, but also from films, poetry, and many other things. That was also the case while working on this album. 90s psychedelic noise rock shaped the overall sonic theme of the record, Shinji Somai’s Typhoon Club inspired the track “Undertaker,” and the poems I had been writing on and off for a long time became the themes for many tracks.

Could you tell us about Balming Tiger?

Balming Tiger is an alternative K-pop group and Asian arts/culture collective that I’ve been part of since I was nineteen. They’re a team that’s like family—people I’ve spent six years with.

What is your favorite way to get weird, noisy sounds?

There are countless methods, but for “LAGEON” I used guitars, various effects, and a variety of hardware. I used the delay on an old Boss sampler to create self-oscillation, made noise with different semi-modular units from small modular companies, and used feedback between the guitar and amp. I also love collecting odd-sounding guitar pedals, so a variety of fuzz and reverb pedals were used on this album as well.

The video for “Undertaker” is really cool. Could you talk a bit about it?

The video was directed by Malloon, a Japanese friend recommended by Hong Chanhee, the album’s creative director and also a fellow member of Balming Tiger. I really liked the bizarre and distinctive style that used stop-motion and AI. It was influenced by the film Forrest Gump. We shot it in Japan, and since we needed a lot of extras, we gathered as many Japanese friends as we could. that same street, who featured on the album, also appeared in the video.

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