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<\/a>Isacson has been a fan of animation his whole life, so when he started writing a song about that fateful night, he thought it might also make a good music video. Although they used a Vancouver-based animator to make the video for \u201c(She Said) I\u2019m Gonna Kill You,\u201d Isacson enjoys editing and making videos as well as making music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor the first album, we had two videos done, and I had other people make them; ever since then I\u2019ve really gotten into making videos myself,\u201d he says, adding that the videos have become a big part of his creative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Isacson calls Crashing Into Thing\u2019s current sound \u201cworking class art rock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen people hear us and try to come up with a comparison, the single band I hear most often is Talking Heads,\u201d he says. \u201cThat was a reference point for us, but we\u2019re heavier than Talking Heads. Some of our stuff gets quite heavy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guitarist Kalev Mihkel Kaup has had \u201creally, really serious heart issues for years,\u201d says Isacson, and ended up getting a transplant in November of 2018. Isacson says that impacted the band\u2019s latest work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe new album [Smaller than Death<\/em>] is very much about mortality,\u201d says Isacson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aside from Kaup\u2019s heart transplant, Isacson had some health issues of his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know what the fuck was going on,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a super gloomy album, but it\u2019s definitely heavier.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Isacson had a 13-year hiatus from music when he was married but always figured he would get back into playing. And out of a dark period, creativity came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy ex-wife, the day that she told me she was leaving, I was completely devastated,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But from the trauma came Isacson\u2019s most creative period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEven some of the stuff we\u2019re still working on, it was actually written initially six or seven years ago,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just hasn\u2019t been worked out. It\u2019s true\u2014you go through those traumatic experiences and it can be, creatively, very fruitful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n