Review Fix Exclusive: TANG Drummer Bastien Gournay Talks Dynamite, Drug, Diamond

Review Fix chats with TANG drummer Bastien Gournay, who discusses the bands new album “Dynamite, Drug, Diamond,” as well as their sound and hope for the future.

Review Fix: What was the inspiration for this album?

Bastien Gournay: Dynamite, Drug, Diamond is our third album. We decided to slow down and take our time before getting into its creation. We wanted the songs to be catchier with a faster tempo and tunes that could easily stay in one’s head. Review Fix: What track are you most proud of?

Gournay: We would agree to say Run & Run & Die. That song is one of our favorite, because it proposes a strong verse/chorus part and then evolves into a long and accomplished progressive part, mixing various ways of playing and singing.

Review Fix: What do you think you have to do to get to the next level? Is anything holding you back?

Gournay: We want to build new songs, maybe in a more instrumental and experimental way. Maybe with less lyrics. We also try new ways of tuning the guitars and are interested in using new instruments.

Review Fix: What do you think your biggest strength is?

Gournay: Maybe the fact that TANG is more than 17 years old. We developed our ways of playing and our own personal musical universe.

Review Fix: For someone that’s never heard you, how would you describe your sound?

Gournay: Our sound insists on the contrasts of tensions. It holds intense, powerful, noisy and screaming parts and beautiful melodic and fragile parts.

Review Fix: What did you learn during the creation of this album? How will it affect you moving forward?

Gournay: Time is the answer. We sometimes got the impression that the world is going too fast for us. We didn’t want to feel squeezed. So, we decided to escape from that way of doing things. We wanted to have the time and freedom to try any idea and experiment with new instruments on some songs.

Review Fix: How do you want this album to be remembered?

Gournay: Not in a special way. We would just be happy to know if our music has followed someone during a part of their life.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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