El Paso indie band Soul Parade first planted the seeds for its success in 2012 when twin brothers Eduardo and Enrique Martinez (bass and drums) linked up with guitarist Josh Gonzalez to work on some songs.
Influenced by teams like The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys, the trio launched its first music, “Harm Management,” shortly after. Realizing their ability in writing snappy, tight pop songs, the trio expanded to incorporate singer Nancy Loya, giving the band a powerful frontwoman and a powerfully expressive voice.
These seeds started to blossom with the discharge of a number of EPs and a rising fanbase.
In 2020, the band was able to put all of the exhausting work to reap with a full album.
However the world had a distinct plan. The COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to Soul Parade’s recording periods and the band must wait till 2021 to complete recording.
With new keyboard participant Aleksya Aguirre on board, the band emerged in full blossom with its debut album “The Backyard” this 12 months.
Soul Parade lately packed the home at Love Buzz in 5 Factors to have fun the album’s launch on streaming platforms and vinyl.
El Paso Inc. talked to the band about its music, the pandemic’s impression on what’s subsequent.
Q: What introduced you collectively as a bunch?
The band was introduced collectively by Joshua Gonzalez and Eduardo Martinez after a hiatus from earlier band tasks.
The band was made entire by the addition of Enrique Martinez, Nancy Loya and Aleksya Danahe after numerous iterations of Soul Parade.
Q: Inform us about what you hoped to attain with “The Backyard.”
We have now been engaged on our new album for the final two years, however most of the songs on the album had been in progress for at the least a couple of years. We actually tried to discover new sounds to attain a vibe harking back to the ’80s.
Our purpose was to make an album that was various musically, with a number of influences on every music. The primary single off the album was “Violet Dawn,” and it has been one in every of our strongest releases to this point.
The overarching theme for the album has been development and alter all through somebody’s life, particularly within the space of romance and relationships.
We needed to make the theme in relation to flowers as properly to represent development, vibrance after which finally the wilting away of a relationship.
Q: How has the pandemic impacted your band?
The shutdown in 2020 actually simply postponed all our plans for releasing the album earlier.
We had been stopped in our tracks from recording and needed to maintain off for months earlier than we had been capable of hit the studio once more to document.
Ultimately, we had been capable of get again to the studio as if nothing had occurred and continued to work on the album.
Q: What’s subsequent for the band this 12 months?
Followers can count on to look ahead to new music releasing within the later a part of 2022 together with scattered reveals all through El Paso.
A mini-tour can be within the works to develop our music all through the Southwest.