Miami “zest pop” trio Mustard Service discuss balancing melancholy with melody in “Dialog Extra time,” the most recent single off their upcoming fourth studio album, ‘Vice Metropolis Magic.’
“Dialog Extra time” – Mustard Service
And it feels lower than snug, just like the quiet useless of evening…
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Miami band Mustard Service proceed to carve out their very own offbeat, sun-soaked sound, that they name “zest pop.”
Equal components playful and poignant, their music blends Latin rhythms with surfy guitars, jazz touches, and considerate songwriting. Their newest single, “Dialog Extra time,” is not any exception. Launched April 25 by way of Handwritten Data, it explores that slippery second when a disagreement turns bitter, and communication turns from honest to strained. With velvet vocals, spellbinding keyboard melodies, glistening guitars, and luxurious manufacturing, the band deal with the load of unstated rigidity in a means that feels each refreshingly sincere and oddly comforting.
Some issues are higher left unsaid, I do know
Typically it’s greatest to chew your tongue
But when someone appears to cross the road
Then you definitely may remorse you by no means stated it
Will somebody come and
take my temperature
This blood is boiling,
heating up so cool again down
No want for dialog extra time
Greatest to not remorse you ever stated it
Atwood Journal spoke to Mustard Service’s Marco Rivero, Leo Cattani, and Adam Perez about “Dialog Extra time” and why painful truths are sometimes greatest delivered with a smile. The band additionally teased what’s coming subsequent, from new music to wild tour tales (and sure, mustard was concerned).
And it feels lower than snug
Just like the quiet useless of evening
And it feels lower than snug
However it’s getting tougher to disclaim
Mustard Service’s fourth studio album Vice Metropolis Magic is out July 18, 2025 by way of Handwritten Data!
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A CONVERSATION WITH MUSTARD SERVICE
Atwood Journal: The concept of “Dialog Extra time” is concurrently particular but common. The lyrics contact on that grey space the place silence may be simply as loud as shouting. How did you strategy placing that rigidity into phrases with out it being overly literal?
Mustard Service: This query jogs my memory of one thing Tony Asher stated about The Seashore Boys track, “Don’t Discuss (Put Your Head On My Shoulder).” He stated: “It’s unusual to sit down down and write a track (lyrics) about not speaking … however we managed to do it and it got here off effectively.” I suppose this is likely to be in the identical vein albeit a distinct arm. As an alternative of describing a silence for the sake of romance, “Dialog Extra time” is describing a silence for the dearth there-of. That being stated, I wouldn’t evaluate these lyrics to these, in spite of everything they’re two of the greats and I’m only one indie rocker however I do resonate with Asher’s frustration at writing phrases about not talking. We are able to solely hope we do the emotion justice and the remaining is out of our fingers.
Sonically, the monitor may be very calming for a track about emotional pressure. How did you steadiness that vibe musically with the heavier lyrical content material?
Mustard Service: Effectively don’t all of us want somewhat soothing after we’re beneath emotional pressure? A tough message is greatest delivered softly in the event you ask me. On the very least it is likely to be obtained higher.
If somebody’s in the course of a messy communication breakdown, what do you hope this track gives them?
Mustard Service: A little bit of respite or a minimum of the braveness to ask for some. I don’t assume anybody ought to take relationship recommendation from anybody not to mention a musician however one of the best recommendation I may give is to attempt to discover when the speak turns right into a struggle and put a bookmark in it till the anger subsides. No sensible choice has been made whereas offended.
Give me some pillow speak and nicotine
Slightly slower is likely to be simply what we’d like
No want for dialog extra time
Simply ensure you stated it such as you need it
And it feels lower than snug
Just like the quiet useless of evening
And it feels lower than snug
However it’s getting tougher to disclaim
Your earlier single “Large Time” explores the ache of getting to let go of somebody poisonous, even when there’s love there. What was essentially the most difficult a part of writing that one?
Mustard Service: Having my buddies marvel who it’s about. [laughs] Typically a track isn’t a couple of particular particular person, however an amalgamation of myself and the folks I really like. I’ve undoubtedly been the narrator within the track in addition to the topic within the track, so it’s extra so an ode to the thought extra so than an individual.
When you’ve got buddies who use, particularly in the event that they’ve been utilizing for a very long time, you then in all probability understand how arduous it’s to inform them something. Drug addicts will lie, cheat, and steal. Don’t do medicine… and if your folks are doing (arduous) medicine, then it’s okay to say goodbye to them when you understand they’ll’t be helped. It’s very unhappy however you may solely give somebody a lot
With each “Large Time” and “Dialog Extra time,” there’s a juxtaposition between the depth of the themes and the feel-good sound. Why do you assume that distinction works so effectively?
Mustard Service: Effectively firstly, thanks for saying it really works effectively, we’re actually happy with it. Secondly, I don’t assume it’s a juxtaposition in any respect, though I can see how evidently means. Magnificence and horror will not be mutually unique – simply activate any horror film, and everybody is gorgeous. Otherwise, I believe unhappiness can also be stunning and can be uplifting. It makes me consider what Leopold “Butters” Stotch stated in “Raisins,” the 14th episode of the seventh season of South Park: Butters has simply been dumped, and in an try to cheer him up, the native goth youngsters invite him to the graveyard to “write poems about dying and the way pointless life is,” to which Butters replies, “No thanks, I really like life.”
The goth youngsters don’t perceive how he can say this beneath the circumstances – “Huh? You simply obtained dumped,” and Butters clears it up for them fantastically: “Effectively yeah, I’m unhappy, however on the similar time I’m actually joyful that one thing may make me really feel that unhappy. It’s like.. it makes me really feel alive, you recognize? It makes me really feel human. And the one means I may really feel this unhappy now could be if I felt one thing actually good earlier than. So I’ve to take the unhealthy with the great, so I suppose what I’m feeling is sort of a stunning unhappiness. I suppose that sounds silly.”
Goth Child 2: “yeah.”
You have shared levels with Bombay Bicycle Membership and packed out venues like El Rey – what’s the wildest or most memorable second from a present up to now?
Mustard Service: I hope I don’t get in hassle for saying this however so far as stage antics go my funniest reminiscences must be from the Zest Fests we throw in Cali and Florida simply because we really feel emboldened to behave poorly at our personal festivals. One time a fan in El Rey theatre threw Heinz Yellow Mustard on stage throughout a track and our guitarist on the time, Nuchi pointed his index finger into his mouth, signaling that he needed me to squirt a number of the great things down his throat… I obliged. I then turned to the entrance row to see each child pointing into their mouths and cmon… I needed to. That complete entrance row obtained doused. I form of blacked out after that however administration advised me that I used to be in large hassle and that they must take away the carpet flooring from the theatre. It should have been loads of mustard. In any case I apologized and we had been invited again subsequent 12 months however the carpets had been eliminated and safety denied entry to a couple youngsters who had introduced bottles of mustard. Sorry guys.
Your subsequent single “Going Nowhere” drops on Could twenty third. Any insights into what we are able to anticipate with that monitor?
Mustard Service: Expectations are the prime ingredient to disappointment! Don’t anticipate something 🙂
With an upcoming album and nationwide tour, 2025 is shaping as much as be large for you. Wanting forward, the place do you envision Mustard Service this time subsequent 12 months?
Mustard Service: Hopefully within the studio with our fourth mustardo, Chad Copelin, the producer extraordinaire.
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