Started as a three-member band on a big-name label, Saturday Seiko is back as a foursome signed with the much smaller Here Records. Koy (vocal), Tust (bass), Tor (guitar), and Tookkae (guitar) discuss their latest Super Sunday album.

BK:  What are Saturday Seiko’s selling points?

Tor: We are not rockers in black. We are rockers in vivid colors. You know, rock isn’t all about rawness, dimness or aggression. Rock is about live performances that rock the audience, a performance to express who you really are.
Koy: We are polite rockers.
Tust: And we don’t scream our head off or just blast out loud noises, we pay attention to musical harmony.

BK: You guys are really out-of-the-box with your costumes. Are you always like this, even in your daily life?

Tor: Depends on where we go.
Tookkae: Koy likes dressing up. We do too, but not as much as her. She also took care of this album’s costumes for us.
Koy: It’s my passion. I wear things like this in my everyday life. It feels normal to me. In this album, we don’t have a concept. We just wear what we like.

BK: There are so many rock bands out there. Do you feel pressured?

Koy: Of course we do. But the pressure drives us to pay attention to every step of the production. We know that the music and everything has to be blended with care and balance. I want the audience to feel worthwhile spending time listening to our songs.
Tor: We do it in our style and we don’t mean to fight with anyone. There’s no point doing what is already in the market. We just fight with ourselves.
Tookkae: There’s some pressure, but not much, because we are unique.

BK: Every band also says they are unique. How do you define “unique”?

Koy: We focus on sound design. What you hear on the record is what you will hear when we play live. Which is different from some albums, where the studio record is one thing, but the live performance is another thing. We care so much that we went out to find a drum set which has a sound that matches the album’s concept.
Tookkae: Some other bands, they just throw sound after sound into their songs with the help of technology, and those bands come out sounding alike. You hear it and you can say it’s modern rock or brit rock. But for our songs, they can’t really be categorized.
Tor: Listening closely, you will hear synthesizer sounds in our music, but we don’t use a synthesizer, we do it with just a guitar.

BK:  Are you concerned about not being promoted as strongly at your new label?

Koy: Not at all. It’s our choice to leave the previous label and make music on our own. I think this way, we can reach our true fans easier. Mass promotion is just an option, but it’s not really all that matters to music.
Tor: I want to see music pave its way with quality, and not promotion. PR is just a way to make it easier to make songs reach out to the public.
Tust: We believe that the audience is the main medium. News flies faster from one person to the other.