Swandive’s excellent handle on emotions is seen through their live shows, which have become a staple in the scene. You can often find their fans faithfully leaping into mosh pits, screaming “SWANDIVEEEE!” at the top of their lungs.
Riley has continued his musical craft with a new single titled “Don’t Fuck Around”, released under his solo artist name, EYEROLL. Contrasting the “rock” elements of his band, “Don’t Fuck Around” is a groovy pop song with a well-executed 80’s influence. EYEROLL is moody; He preaches how-to-not-give-a-flying-fuck essentially. Riley expresses his fed-up nature, while also giving his listeners a song to blast in the car full volume. It’s ingenious.
What is Lucky You? Basically, what is it? Why did you create it?
T: It's called Lucky You with an exclamation point in all caps. We came up with the name because we were just thinking about names and we liked it. I was thinking about those jeans that you unzip and it says Lucky You. And it's also just, like, lucky you for seeing all this fire art.
O: I guess we wanted to start a Zine together so we can collaborate with our friends in a more tangible way.
T: Basically every single one of our friends is an artist and this was such a good opportunity to combine all of our friends' stuff. We've also been wanting to make a zine for a really long time.
O: When we were in 7th grade, we made a fucking Instagram for a zine, and it never worked out. This year, we were like, it needs to happen.
T: And also, it is a really cool opportunity for Orla and I to work together since Orla does visual art, and I do writing, we were like, we need to combine our art.
O: We're good collaborators. We've always been good at doing little projects together. Usually, if Tingri has a project she's working on, I'll help her with it [...vice versa]