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Vant: "We want to be one of those bands that represents our generation"

Mattie Vant just wants to make sure the species isn't, y'know, fucked.

Mattie Vant has something to say. And he wants others to join him, too. He wants that voice back, one for the new generation, and he’s not afraid to be it.

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If you’ve listened to any of VANT’s early offerings, you’ll definitely have heard some form of political statement - but most of all you’ll notice how the lyricism comes from a place of worry and drive. “There’s so many subjects that we can talk about,” Mattie explains. “People are way too lazy in general with their lyricism. There’s so much by-the-numbers formulaic nonsense out there at the moment. You read some lines from bands and there’s nothing behind it at all.”

For Mattie, the current generational voice is different to the sound his band are aiming for. “I think you’ve got to look to hip hop and grime to see any sort of political statements at all,” he ponders. “I make this music because I don’t really relate to that style of politicism, although I’m interested. I’m concerned with world-wide politics and the future of humans as a species. I don’t think there’s many people maybe looking at the way we act and we are as society.”

Of course, these days genres are almost worthless. Artists are taking inspiration from all over the place and using them to create more interesting and approachable sounds. Nowadays you can as easily find the same person at a Wolf Alice gig as you would a Stormzy show.

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Still, for all the good it does, the easy come, easy go, throw away culture of 2016 isn’t necessarily something Mattie’s a fan of. “People just get bored of stuff,” he sighs. “That’s the problem. One minute, punk and revolution and all that sort of stuff is the new thing and then all of a sudden mobile phones come out or Twitter or the selfie is invented, and there’s something else to occupy people’s time. Yeah do it, but also try and make sure that life as a species isn’t fucked.”

Not that that’s a problem for VANT. Their future is now.

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