Your music should sound like where it's from

Great Lakes Myth Society, a Detroit band, talks about place-based music.

Myth, mirth and fresh water (Metro Times Detroit): "'Music should sound like where it's from. Even if it's not entirely in the lyrics, it's about the dark and the light. Pop music is so wonderful and beautiful, but the girl songs have been written so many times over, and all the neat little pop themes, so it's kind of going back to folk music to where a certain sound seems more genuine.'[said Timothy Monger].

"Tim's older brother, vocalist-guitarist and songwriter James Christopher Monger, agrees. 'I think the further north you get, the more folk songs are just outright dark. It's just all laid out there, in British folk all the way through to Scandinavia. There's a reason why there are so many black metal bands in Sweden -- they're all based on folk music, because the translations of those folk songs, the titles themselves, are the entire story. Like, 'My baby was born with one arm; a monster ate it three weeks later.' It's all Beowulf.'"

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