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Dark Circles: Clare Voyant Interview

KZSC: Your music has been continually called "hard to classify" in terms of genre. Being on the Metropolis label might have the effect of shoehorning your albums into the gothic or industrial arena. How do you classify your own music? What terms do you use to describe it to others?

CHRIS: We don't do it very well.

VICTORIA: We don't. We end up using ten adjectives.

BEN: Or we try to take something somebody else says or bands we like or think maybe we'd have a good show with.

VICTORIA: I kinda go on the moods that I feel from it too like it's dreamy, but it's dark but it's still kinda lush and it's ethereal sort of, but it's pop. So I always end up saying it's ethereal pop because we are much more pop than most gothic or ethereal people, but we're much more ethereal than most pop people.

BEN: We're more accessible, but at the same time I think we're lucky to fit in with a lot of the people that we play with too, where most people can't. Most people are boxed into one exact thing and then couldn't play another venue.

VICTORIA: Yeah, we have a great fan base. A lot of goth and industrial people will say "Well, you're not Goth OR industrial," because we're not necessarily.

BEN: The cool thing is that we get to do shows like we are doing now, you know? We get to do a show like tonight and then tomorrow at The Palace...

VICTORIA: And then tomorrow we play with four industrial bands — that's going to be very interesting! But hard to classify is a hard thing, I just want to say. It makes it difficult for us and it makes it difficult for our label because they are like, "Who is your market?" We basically say — anyone that likes it. You can see that by our crowds. It can be someone that's 50 and just likes music or someone that likes female vocals or someone that likes guitar with electronics. There is no one type of fan.MORE