Soundlanding met while studying at Chulalongkorn’s Faculty of Education. Their debut Brit rock-styled album Sonique Agent came out Aug 28, but the song “Boay Bin” from their EP Post has already been on the Fat Radio charts for several weeks.

What are the stories behind the names?
The concept of the name was to turn an abstract word into something more tangible. It’s a play on words, too, because people usually see the same image whenever they hear the word “Soundlanding.” (P, the bassist, makes a hand motion like a plane landing). For our album name, Sonique Agent, our concept was to slowly reveal ourselves to the listeners as representatives of a new, unique sound.

How did you approach making this record?
When we practice, we videotape it. When we replay it later, if we hear something interesting, we’ll learn how to recreate it by looking at our finger placement and such on the video. Then we develop these bits into songs. Yo, our vocalist, is mostly in charge of lyrics, but each person composes his own part and then we all sit down and finalize the song together. It took almost two years to make this record.

What’s the difference between making songs and a complete album?
A song can sound good on its own, but if all your songs are the same, the album will be boring. We had to bring out the uniqueness in each track but not so much that it strays from the concept of the album. In this album, we included modified versions of the songs “Wan Rai Sa Tee” and “Kam Torb” from our EP, and also recorded a bossa nova song for it.

What explains your British sound?
Arm is more into jazz. Yo is really into 90s British bands like Pulp. Actually, we used to play mainstream music back in our university days. However, as a band, we had to adjust our musical tastes to each other and come up a style that we all liked, and that happened to be Brit rock.