Kitten Interview with Chloe Chaidez

Top Photo Courtesy of Kaitlin Christy
Interview by: Taylor Prater

Last week we sat down with Chloe Chaidez of LA based rock band Kitten to talk tour, critics and the bands first self titled full album...

GBS:
So this is your first show at Dada?

Chaidez:
It's our second actually. Last time with Charli XCX on tour, probably our fourth time in Dallas.


GBS:
You've been touring since 2010 - what do you think of Dallas?

Chaidez:
I love it. The more I come the more I know it. It's like, "This is the strip, I know this!"


GBS:
We're glad to have you back. We read that the LA Times called your music "surprisingly ageless." Do you think your mix of influences in your sound would give them that impression?

Chaidez:
I think our music is just based on, it's really song-based and, you know, I work really hard on just I guess the songwriting aspect regardless, so that the different elements surrounding - most of the music is played on guitar but still translates, but I think that may be where that comes from.


GBS:
How do you think your music has grown or expanded since your first EP Sunday School?

Chaidez:
So extremely. Yeah, I think Sunday School I was really just discovering what I wanted to do musically. I knew I liked to sing and certain things, but I think what I was going for the EP was a more band oriented sound. All of that. And then with Cut It Out my brother taught me, got me more into electronic sounds and different things, and at the same time heavier new wave, bands like Tears for Fears, that's how I got deeper into that.


GBS:
Just to say we asked, what key is your song G# actually in?

Chaidez:
In G#. That's why it's called that - I wish there was a cooler story for that.


GBS:
You just wrapped up a tour with The Neighborhood. How was the experience of sharing the road with those guys?

Chaidez:
Awesome. Really cool. They're great - Jesse [Rutherford] is such a force, they have such a vision, and their fans are unbelievable and so very incredible.


GBS:
I see your fans all out here with kitten ears.

Chaidez:
Yeah. They're really cool.


GBS:
After your show in Dallas tonight you have four more dates scheduled for this tour. Do you have more live dates in the works after a quick break?

Chaidez:
We're either going to Europe to do some festivals or maybe another run in the U.S. Some of these cities have been awesome, like D.C. and Austin, so going out again to those places. We've only done one European tour - definitely the drives are much shorter so that's super cool, but seeing the countrysides, a huge place, and the different kinds of people country people, city people, that's always cool.