Miami “zest pop” trio Mustard Service speak about balancing melancholy with melody in “Dialog Time beyond regulation,” the most recent single off their upcoming fourth studio album, ‘Vice Metropolis Magic.’
“Dialog Time beyond regulation” – Mustard Service
And it feels lower than comfy, just like the quiet lifeless of night time…
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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 elements playful and poignant, their music blends Latin rhythms with surfy guitars, jazz touches, and considerate songwriting. Their newest single, “Dialog Time beyond regulation,” isn’t any exception. Launched April 25 through Handwritten Information, 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 sort out the burden of unstated stress in a method that feels each refreshingly trustworthy and oddly comforting.
Some issues are higher left unsaid, I do know
Typically it’s finest to chunk your tongue
But when any individual appears to cross the road
You then may remorse you by no means mentioned it
Will somebody come and
take my temperature
This blood is boiling,
heating up so cool again down
No want for dialog time beyond regulation
Finest to not remorse you ever mentioned it
Atwood Journal spoke to Mustard Service’s Marco Rivero, Leo Cattani, and Adam Perez about “Dialog Time beyond regulation” and why painful truths are sometimes finest 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 comfy
Just like the quiet lifeless of night time
And it feels lower than comfy
But it surely’s getting more durable to disclaim
Mustard Service’s fourth studio album Vice Metropolis Magic is out July 18, 2025 through Handwritten Information!
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A CONVERSATION WITH MUSTARD SERVICE
Atwood Journal: The concept of “Dialog Time beyond regulation” is concurrently particular but common. The lyrics contact on that grey space the place silence will be simply as loud as shouting. How did you strategy placing that stress into phrases with out it being overly literal?
Mustard Service: This query jogs my memory of one thing Tony Asher mentioned about The Seaside Boys music, “Don’t Speak (Put Your Head On My Shoulder).” He mentioned: “It’s unusual to sit down down and write a music (lyrics) about not speaking … however we managed to do it and it got here off nicely.” I assume this is perhaps in the identical vein albeit a unique arm. As an alternative of describing a silence for the sake of romance, “Dialog Time beyond regulation” is describing a silence for the shortage there-of. That being mentioned, I wouldn’t examine these lyrics to these, in any case 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 remainder is out of our palms.
Sonically, the monitor may be very calming for a music about emotional pressure. How did you stability that vibe musically with the heavier lyrical content material?
Mustard Service: Nicely don’t all of us want slightly soothing after we’re underneath emotional pressure? A tough message is finest delivered softly for those who ask me. On the very least it is perhaps acquired higher.
If somebody’s in the midst of a messy communication breakdown, what do you hope this music presents 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 the perfect recommendation I can provide is to attempt to discover when the speak turns right into a battle 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
Somewhat slower is perhaps simply what we want
No want for dialog time beyond regulation
Simply ensure you mentioned it such as you need it
And it feels lower than comfy
Just like the quiet lifeless of night time
And it feels lower than comfy
But it surely’s getting more durable 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 pals marvel who it’s about. [laughs] Typically a music 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 music in addition to the topic within the music, so it’s extra so an ode to the thought extra so than an individual.
When you’ve got pals who use, particularly in the event that they’ve been utilizing for a very long time, you then most likely understand how arduous it’s to inform them something. Drug addicts will lie, cheat, and steal. Don’t do medicine… and if your mates are doing (arduous) medicine, then it’s okay to say goodbye to them when you notice they’ll’t be helped. It’s very unhappy however you may solely give somebody a lot
With each “Large Time” and “Dialog Time beyond regulation,” there’s a juxtaposition between the depth of the themes and the feel-good sound. Why do you assume that distinction works so nicely?
Mustard Service: Nicely firstly, thanks for saying it really works nicely, we’re actually happy with it. Secondly, I don’t assume it’s a juxtaposition in any respect, though I can see how it appears that evidently method. Magnificence and horror will not be mutually unique – simply activate any horror film, and everybody is gorgeous. Another way, I believe unhappiness can also be lovely and can be uplifting. It makes me consider what Leopold “Butters” Stotch mentioned in “Raisins,” the 14th episode of the seventh season of South Park: Butters has simply been dumped, and in an try and cheer him up, the native goth children 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 children don’t perceive how he can say this underneath the circumstances – “Huh? You simply received dumped,” and Butters clears it up for them fantastically: “Nicely yeah, I’m unhappy, however on the similar time I’m actually glad 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 method I may really feel this unhappy now could be if I felt one thing actually good earlier than. So I’ve to take the dangerous with the great, so I assume what I’m feeling is sort of a lovely unhappiness. I assume that sounds silly.”
Goth Child 2: “yeah.”
You’ve got shared phases with Bombay Bicycle Membership and packed out venues like El Rey – what’s the wildest or most memorable second from a present thus far?
Mustard Service: I hope I don’t get in hassle for saying this however so far as stage antics go my funniest reminiscences should 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 music 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 received doused. I sort 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 a number of mustard. Anyhow I apologized and we had been invited again subsequent 12 months however the carpets had been eliminated and safety denied entry to a couple children who had introduced bottles of mustard. Sorry guys.
Your subsequent single “Going Nowhere” drops on Might twenty third. Any insights into what we will 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 enormous 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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