In Conversation With #173 - VRSTY
New York City based VRSTY have just released their debut full length with ‘Welcome Home’ via Spinefarm Records.
VRSTY have perfected their seamless and fearless cross-pollination of metallic grooves with R&B-influenced, after midnight vocal swagger on their new 14-track offering. VRSTY aren't just offering their own take on a genre; they have authored a fusion style that is entirely their own. They took a moment to talk to us about how the album came together.
Hey there VRSTY, how are you? So your debut album is out now - how does it feel to have it out there in the world?
Hi! Uhm it’s still a little weird having the record finally out. It’s crazy to think we did this back in 2020 and it’s here now haha.
It is titled ‘Welcome Home’ - does that have a certain meaning behind it?
Yeah, so ‘Welcome Home’ is pretty much being welcomed into your life. This is your life and you’re trapped in it and there’s nothing you can do about it until you’re dead. Cheers lol.
Where was it recorded? Any behind the scenes stories from the creative process you are happy to share with us?
It was recorded in Kentucky with our new bestie Andrew Baylis lol honestly, I wish we had some funny behind the scenes stories to tell, but we were all so focused on getting the record right that all we did was record music and drink moonshine. Literally all day.
What are the key themes and influences on the album?
The album is pretty much a collection of feeling and events that have happened to me in real life. I’m literally just singing about my traumas ahah as for influence, idk that’s tough. I didn’t really listen to any music while I was recording this. I get scared that I’ll listen to something so much, I’ll start writing like that thing.
Do you have a favourite lyric on the album? If so, which one and why?
Favourite lyric on the record hands down is ‘I’m flying lower than you know, still you can’t see my ghost’. It’s from our song ‘Gravity’ and that song is based on a suicide note I wrote a few years back when I tried to end it all. It’s pretty much the feeling of not being noticed in life and going completely unnoticed in death as well.
Now the album is out there - what next for you?
Now I start working on the next album lol, I wish I was kidding about that but… I am not ahaha.
