{"id":14245,"date":"2017-06-16T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2017-06-19T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:05:57","slug":"victorias-laura-smith-brings-rococode-back-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/06\/16\/victorias-laura-smith-brings-rococode-back-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria\u2019s Laura Smith brings Rococode back to town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver indie band Rococode released their new EP, Young Ones<\/em>, today; this is particularly noteworthy to Victorians because Rococode vocalist Laura Smith was born here in town. Smith says that their new EP was a product of spending some time away from the studio and getting to play with some old synthesizers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the fastest we\u2019ve wrote something and gone through the writing process, which is really exciting for us,\u201d she says. \u201cWe started writing it in September of last year in Los Angeles at a songwriting camp, which was really cool. We then went to the National Music Centre in Calgary, where we had access to 100 vintage synthesizers, and we put down all the keyboard parts there and then finished in December.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Victoria-born Laura Smith (left) is now in Vancouver indie rock band Rococode (photo by Lynol Lui).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Smith says that although EPs are shorter, they\u2019re important for artists. She says that the public is consuming music so fast that new bands are almost forced to keep pushing out new material so that the audience doesn\u2019t have to wait a long time for a full-length album.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays, I think people need to consume a lot more music,\u201d she says. \u201cPutting out an EP is a nice in-between, compared to just a single. It\u2019s more digestible than a full-length album, but it\u2019s still something that\u2019s concrete as a creative idea. It\u2019s also nice to have something like that in my song catalogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming up for new ideas for songs isn\u2019t an issue for Smith. She says that it\u2019s more the person\u2019s responsibility to keep themselves in check and to stay motivated when creating new music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only hard if you let it be hard,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely something you have to work at. If you don\u2019t have the right mindset, it can be hard. Luckily we haven\u2019t had any writer\u2019s block. Collaborating is great, too. It\u2019s like waterfalls\u2014ideas just keep happening and it\u2019s really helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rococode will be playing at the Spirit 150 Victoria celebrations on June 30; Smith says that she\u2019s excited to be coming back to her hometown to play alongside some huge artists, and for something as exciting as this celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m really excited,\u201d she says. \u201cI spent a lot of time going downtown as a kid and as a rowdy teenager, chilling on the streets on Canada Day, so it\u2019ll be really fun to be a part of the festivities. I\u2019m thrilled that we get to play before Tegan and Sara; I’ve been a big fan of theirs for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rococode
\n5:30 pm, Friday June 30
\nFree, Legislature lawns
\nspirit150victoria.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vancouver indie band Rococode released their new EP, Young Ones, today; this is particularly noteworthy to Victorians because Rococode vocalist Laura Smith was born here in town. Smith says that their new EP was a product of spending some time away from the studio and getting to play with some old synthesizers. \u201cIt was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14247,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions\/14247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}