The Wrecks' Frontman Nick Anderson Talks The Band's Latest EP 'INSIDE'
- Sabrina Shahryar
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Los Angeles indie rock band The Wrecks released their new EP, INSIDE, via Republic Records on April 11, 2025. The EP consists of a six-song tracklist.
Can you describe your favorite experience making music? What part of the process do you resonate most with?
Nick: It’s the pride in "Holy shit, I made that." I’ve pinpointed where my passion for this comes from. It’s at the end of the night or early morning when I finish a song or demo, or whatever it is. Going back and sitting on the couch while it exports and listening back to it. That's the top of the mountain for me. It's the most rewarding feeling when it feels good. Everything after that is just what has to happen when you make music. But that's the part I like the most and feels rewarding and fulfilling. On the way to that is when something feels great, and I start laughing, whether it's a funny lyric or a part that is working. It feels like getting away with something. That feeling of there's no way I get to have this, this idea is ours, it's a good feeling. It's very much the process of doing it that's most exciting, and finishing it.
As teasers for the full album came out at the beginning of the year, you announced that INSIDE was the first half of the album, what brought the decision to break the album into two projects and release them at separate times?
Nick: As you can deduce, we’re going on the INSIDE:OUTSIDE Tour in a couple of weeks, and there's a back half of the record called OUTSIDE. If I had to deconstruct it, I was writing INSIDE and OUTSIDE at the same time, which was maybe an internal struggle of trying not to come to terms with the fact that I was going through something. I was isolating myself and trying too hard to keep my head down instead of getting outside and experiencing the world. While also being in denial of the fact that I was also writing from this point of view of being out and experiencing the world, and all these things. I was trying to be in both. I realized at one point that I had all of these songs that were gelling different points of view, and they were contradicting and not being honest for how I was feeling. If songwriting was this way for me to make sense of what I was experiencing mentally, then I was confusing myself. I couldn't seem to finish any of them. I’ve never had that problem of having a bunch of half-finished ideas. I had 20 or 30 half-finished ideas. So I took a smaller portion of it. I looked at what do I need to say right now. "What Did I Know" was the most honest for how I'm feeling right now. And what songs match that. So I picked the songs that are on ‘INSIDE’ because they were all representing the self-isolating and confusion that I was going through, and what caused that. I told everyone I can't finish a record right now, but I can do half a record.
What song are you most excited for fans to hear and why?
Nick: It's the first song, "I Didn’t Use To," it's almost five minutes long. You go through a few journeys in it. It's like the song I was trying to write for a few years, while simultaneously being the song I've been waiting my whole life to write since making music, it ticks all those boxes for me. The answers to it weren't clear to me right away. Usually, it's very sudden. This one took me a minute to figure out. I delivered it to the label, mixed and mastered, and then I realized it needed a bridge. So I just added another minute to the song. The fact that it was a choice that I had to make tells me I got everything out of that song that I wanted, and put everything into it that I wanted too.
You are about to release a new project and embark on a tour. What was it like creating the setlist for this tour? How did you decide how much of the new project would go on it versus your older songs that fans are more familiar with?
Nick: We actually haven't decided the setlist yet, but I think we're going to play most, if not all, of the new record. Usually, you put out an album so you can play everything, but the fact that we're putting out half, there's a better chance we'll play all of it. We did a debate on Discord with fans about it, and there's some staples on our set that might go out because we were convinced by fans on what we should play. They made some great arguments. It was pretty productive. Being able to ask our fans what are you looking for in a show, and did the set have anything to do with it. We like to tap into that once in a while to get some perspective. But we haven't really decided yet.
What are you most excited to get to do on tour this summer?
Nick: Sleeping. Seriously, I sleep so much on tour. I turn it off and just do shows and meet and greets. That’s all my job becomes. I’m not joking at all, I'm looking forward to being in my bunk from 1 am to 4 pm every day. Sleeping a gross amount of hours and resetting my brain. It's going to be awesome, the dreams I'm going to have are gonna be crazy. It's so dark and cozy in there. The other guys, I think, are excited to see friends in different cities and visit local shops we've come to love. Seeing fans in different regions, we see everything. But for me, it's the sleep paralysis, am I awake, am I not awake, is what I'm looking forward to.
What can fans look forward to on the INSIDE:OUTSIDE Tour?
Nick: A good show. Best night of your lives, mostly and a bit of shrubbery on stage. Some tomfoolery if you will. We usually start the tour with a bit of transitions in between songs. After night one, we usually adjust the show and move things around.
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