We threw shit at the wall and saw what stuck. The world’s gone to shit, so let’s just make everything we’ve wanted’. With this one, we were like ‘we don’t even know if we can make another album. On Skinny Dipping, we tried to make our own thing and the same with Pink Elephant. I think we’ve always tried to push ourselves and write something a little bit different to what you would hear. I feel like we always kind of tried to dance on a different line and genres don’t really matter anymore. Was that direction something you considered with f.e.a.r? Stand Atlantic’s sophomore album, Pink Elephant, saw the band step into more of an experimental sound. It’s what makes this whole thing worth it and being able to connect with people that way. Now, I’m kind of realising ‘do I tour to escape all my problems? Am I addicted to that?’. It feels like we’re getting back into the swing of how we used to operate. I was like ‘I can’t believe my life last year compared to now’. Australia makes me nervous because we’ve had to cancel it so many times or reschedule. Hello! You’ve just released some tour dates. So, with f.e.a.r coming out via Hopeless Records in just under a month, we sat down with Bonnie to hear more about the band’s breakthrough, the new album and how the singer navigated her bisexuality at a young age. Instead, it’s a rough-cut record ready to scrape off the old and dive ahead with the new. The band’s new album doesn’t strive to be easy to digest. “ Taking all your cheap shots / Take ’em till my body drops / You say what you wanna say,” she sings. “This is who we are.” The band’s latest single, Switchblade, is a cutting single that hones in on Fraser’s loaded lyrics and emotional vulnerability.
“It’s just my feelings and the only way I know how to express them,” Bonnie explains. Instead, the band honour the creative experimentation that feels right to them. Hailing from Australia, Stand Atlantic has emerged as resilient pop-punk rockers that refuse to succumb to the pressures around them.
It’s early morning and Stand Atlantic and gearing up for the release of their new album, f.e.a.r. “This question always scares me because I feel like the label always wants me to say something that’s super profound” Bonnie Fraser laughs over Zoom.
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