Review Fix chats with Anna and Andy You of Moxi, who detail their creative process, goals and more.
Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?Â
Anna: I have been singing since before I can remember and started writing songs when I was 14, and have never stopped. For me, music is apart of me, it’s intrinsic to who I am. Writing music has become the way I process almost everything. Music has saved me in a lot of ways and I’m very grateful for it’s role in my life.
Andy: I started playing piano when I was 6 years old after hearing my cousin play happy birthday on piano at a party and getting immensely jealous of the attention my cousin received. Despite my family’s initial misgivings, I moved to LA to study piano in college, after which I started working as a professional recording engineer and studio musician and never looked back.
Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?
Anna: The creative process looks different for us by the day. We are both artists at our core so each day is a different experiment in creativity. I (Anna) have stacks of journals filled with lyrics/ideas/poetry which I pull from a lot when we write songs. But sometimes we start from scratch and write the whole song in one sitting. I’ll have days filled with so much creative inspiration and then I’ll have weeks with nothing. It’s a process that is hard to predict but it’s a fun journey to be on.
Review Fix: What inspires you?
Anna: So many things inspire me. Life, struggles, my experience as a a woman and an empath. Recently I’m very inspired to write about my personal journey navigating mental health over the years. I have done so much work to get to the place I’m at and I feel stronger than ever which makes me want to write about it in hopes that others can relate and feel understood.
Andy: Art, literature, cinema. I love horror movies, because they constantly find new ways to make the viewer feel uncomfortable. My goal in writing a song is to make you feel a certain way, even without hearing the lyrics, and horror movies nail that feeling even without dialogue.
Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?
Anna: Dreamy, unique, emotive, honest. Ambient dreampop.
Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?
Anna: We try to create a world with our live shows. We reimagine a lot of the songs so that the live versions kind of take on a life of their own. During quarantine we’ve been remixing some older songs to sound more like our “live” versions and it’s been a lot of fun and people seem to enjoy it. Andy programs a light show during our live performances, I run around a lot haha. We have a lot of fun and hopefully make you feel something while you watch it.
Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?
Anna: I wrote Hush on my bedroom floor acapella, just me and my vocoder (a little machine that distorts my voice). I was in the middle of a depression and the song just spilled out of me, I think I had written the majority of the song within 20 minutes. I brought the song to Andy who transformed it into what it is now. The song is about pain. Feeling it all, being here in the emotions and letting them come in and out. Pain can make you so present. The song is about feeling like you are losing your fucking mind which I feel on a regular basis if I’m being honest.
Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?
Andy: We have a lot of new music we plan to release! Get ready! We want to get one of our songs onto a movie trailer. And we’d love to hop on a major tour as support.
Review Fix: What’s next?
Anna: More music, more art. During quarantine we’ve been busy writing. We can’t wait to show you what we have up our sleeves.
Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?
Andy: The time we are living in is so strange. We are here with you, feeling all of the things. Do what you can to keep your head up, it’s enough.
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