Jesus Flytrap, an alternative/industrial band from Kansas City, released their first single of the year "Leech." "Leech" is the follow-up to a series of four singles the band released in 2023 and 2024.
LP: How’d you get started as a band? What are the origins of the band name?
Jesus Flytrap:
Well my name is Jake Thomas, I'm the vocalist and main writer. I started writing and producing for JFT in mid 2023 with the single "Christian Prescription". I knew it needed to be a full band project so after the release of a couple songs, I started looking for people. Now after about a year and a half, I have a full lineup for the music with like-minded individuals.
The name of the band was kind of an accident. Something that I said in a cheeky way that caught the attention of a friend of mine. He said that it would be a great band name which I never would've considered. Realized it actually had a catch to it and it could really be applicable to many genres, so I decided to use it eventually. The name was made years before I actually took it upon myself to start creating the music for it. Now knowing that when people hear the name they either think it's cool, funny or offensive gives me more initiative and desire to grow with it.
LP: Who’s all in the band, and what do you play?
JFT: Jesse Jones- Bass
Derek Bowers- Drums
Sean Hansen- Guitar
Jake Thomas- Vocals/Synths
LP: Who are your influences?
JFT: Our influences are Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Gojira, Gary Numan, Sneaker Pimps, Rammstein, Puscifer, TOOL and pretty much anything in that category but also growing from there with anything that catches our ear.
LP: Tell me about your newest single “Leech.” What was the writing and recording process like?
JFT: “Leech” was something that ended up being kind of an experiment as opposed to the rest of our songs being more straight-forward.
The basic bones of the song was a performance on a synth called the "DFAM" or "Drummer from another mother" by Moog. I meandered around on it for hours one day until I found that beat I really liked. But like I said it was a performance, with analog synthesizers and the complexities of the semi-modular synth itself, it's almost next to impossible to re-create the same exact performance.
So I just pressed record and once I felt like I had the basis of a song I stopped recording and then started brainstorming on how I could actually turn it into a real song.
It took me a couple weeks to make guitar, bass and vocals for it before I deemed it to be completed and able to be released.
The lyrical content for my songs I don't necessarily like to tell anyone about because I want you to find your own relatability to the music. I find it when you tell people what a song is about cut and dry, then you've now robbed them of the journey for themselves to find something that they can really take with them and cherish for themselves. Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to have that happen with my music one day lol. But I will say, the name itself should give it away a little bit. Being that I'm sure we've all dealt with a few "leeches" in our lives.
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