E350 Jake Crawford and Em Lodge of Unpeople on Pop Hooks, Death Growls, and the Unbridled Joy of Making Music

This week, we're scratching The Itch to celebrate! Jake Crawford and Em Lodge of show favorites unpeople join us to discuss the pure musical mayhem of their debut album, we are unpeople.

A lot has happened since Jake and bandmate Luke Caley were first on the show back in 2024. They've opened for Metallica, played the main stage at Download, welcomed Em into the band, and spent a lot of time singing in funny voices and playing with all creatures great and small.

We'll talk about all of that, plus the joy they took in making an unpredictable album where any given song can include big, sugary melodies one moment and brutal blast beats the next.

Plus, we'll attempt to answer questions like "how do you sequence an album when every song contains multitudes?" and "exactly how many animal references are on this record?"

unpeople loves making music, and we love unpeople. One might even say... we are unpeople. Enjoy.

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