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Estrons: "This is Estrons. This is what we are"

Estrons turn everyday troubles and heartache into invincible tunes ready to take on the world.

Estrons aren't quite sure how they managed a debut album. "It's hard to find common ground," admits vocalist Tali Källström. They don't listen to the same music. "There's always a fight over the CD player in the van. I think Rhodri [Daniel, guitar]'s taste in music is terrible. He thinks my taste in music is terrible. I don't know how we wrote the songs we did. They're all these weird Frankenstein's monsters."

But two years since ‘Make A Man' made people sit up and take notice, Estrons are set to release ‘You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough'. They've spent most of 2018 away for the spotlight, figuring things out and seeing where pull makes way for push.

Unafraid of stepping away from their steadily building momentum, "the most important thing is getting your art right," she says. "If it's not right, it's not worth putting it out. It wouldn't have mattered if it was going to take us another two years for us to get it right, we would have waited."

Estrons have always done things on their own terms. The fact they're releasing their debut full-length now is in part because Rhodri kept laughing, promising they couldn't release an album with ‘Make A Man' on it in 2019, but mainly it was just time.

Almost everything has changed for Estrons since they started.

One thing that hasn't waned is that anger. The band first turned heads with a stomping, determined grit, balancing fury, frustration and tongue in cheek fun.

That fiery scarlet now shares space with tranquil blues, lush purples and sunburst yellow.

The scale of the record is because Tali has "changed a lot as a person," she says. "I went through a really, really, really difficult two years where lots of bad stuff happened, and a lot of the lyrics were inspired by that. A lot of the songs come from deep, dark places and powerful moments.

‘Killing Your Love' strives out on its own. Originally inspired by a person Tali thought was a love addict, it was meant to be about shaking that love off before shifting and becoming more reflective.

"I have this huge insecurity about how no one will ever love me sincerely. I wanted to get rid of this love because I didn't believe it was real. It felt like some sort of projection.

Elsewhere ‘Aliens' came to life years ago, after a break up.

From that track comes the title.

It's also about change.

"I just want our music to help people accept themselves," continues Tali. "We go through life so miserable because we always feel like we should be something better than we are. We're always trying to obtain some unattainable paradigm of what a person should be. We feel like we should be more beautiful, we feel like we should be thinner, we feel like we should be stronger, funnier and fitter.

"I just want people to stop worrying about those things, start looking at who it is that they actually are and not changing for anyone else but themselves. I hope people can finally accept themselves listening to the music, because I've been very honest with it. I don't try and put on a show when I'm onstage. I don't try and put on a show when I write lyrics for people. It's come from a real place.

‘You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough' is an album of physical emotions. Drawing from real life extremes and quiet moments that question everything, it's an album that exists on the edge.

There's a weight to Estrons. Live they demand this connection, a celebration of self and making it this far and on their debut record, they keep that fire burning. Tali hates the word cathartic - "it's what everyone says" - and this album means far too much for those sort of wide brush strokes.

Taken from the October issue of Dork. Estrons' debut album 'You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough' is out 5th October.

Words: Ali Shutler

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