Sueco came by the idobi Studio to talk with Fish of Gone Fishkin for the first time ever. The studio was buzzing with excitement for this conversation after seeing Sueco live a bunch and out and about for the last few years.
Attempted Lover, his third studio record and first full-length independent release, dropped in mid-July. The album features a wide variety of genres and different sides of Sueco across the 12 original songs.
When asking Sueco about the variety of styles and tracks on the record, he said, “I had issues getting music cleared, pretty much. With the label, I was not able to put out what I wanted to put out. And so, because of that, I just kept writing, and I kept writing, and I kept writing… I was kind of in this limbo state, and so I was pretty scattered.”
He continues, “I wasn’t cohesively focusing on ’Oh, this is one sound, this is one, whatever.’ I was just kind of writing songs. It was just whatever I felt that day. I woke up, and I wrote that song, right? We were finally able to get out of the deal. Thankfully, I’m independent now.”
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In addition to everything he was writing on tour, he accumulated nearly 200 songs during the writing process. He shares, “I knew we had the 200 songs. I went to the back, like the garage in my dad’s house. We had been on tour for maybe a year and a half straight, that was one of the things when I knew we were struggling with getting the release or whatever. We just said, ‘Fuck it, let’s just keep touring.’”
He continues, “I got back here to LA, I set up a little studio in my dad’s garage [because] that’s where I started making music in the first place, me and my homies doing band practice back there when I was like 14 years old, nostalgic place for me. I set up a little tiny studio, and I started going through the 200 songs and I started picking them apart. ‘Yo, what if it’s the chorus from this and the verse from this but then the beat from this, right?’ So kind of Frankenstein-ing and mashing up songs together and picking the best of the best and compiling all that. That’s where I got the bones for the album and then finished everything with Colin and DWilly.”
Check out the full interview with Sueco below.
Sueco is currently out on tour supporting his album, Attempted Lover. You can catch him at the dates below and purchase tickets here.
Tour Dates:
- Sept. 17—Atlanta, Georgia
- Sept. 19—Dallas, Texas
- Sept. 20—Houston, Texas
- Sept. 21—Austin, Texas
- Sept. 24—Phoenix, Arizona
- Sept. 25—San Diego, California
- Sept. 27—Los Angeles, California
- Sept. 28—Santa Ana, California
- Sept. 29—Santa Cruz, California
- Oct. 1—Sacramento, California
- Oct. 3—Seattle, Washington
- Oct. 4—Vancouver, British Columbia
- Oct. 5—Portland, Oregon
- Oct. 9—Denver, Colorado
- Oct. 11—Kansas City, Missouri
- Oct. 12—St. Louis, Missouri
- Oct. 15—Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Oct. 16—Madison, Wisconsin
- Oct. 18—Chicago, Illinois
- Oct. 19—Detroit, Michigan
- Oct. 20—Toronto, Ontario
- Oct. 22 – Montreal, QC
- Oct. 23—Boston, Massachusetts
- Oct. 26—New York, New York
- Oct. 28 – Cleveland, OH
- Oct. 29—Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Oct. 31—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Nov. 1—Silver Spring, Maryland
- Nov. 2—Charlotte, North Carolina
