Over spring break, I talked with Klept following a show that I attended of theirs. Here’s the interview that followed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radio: Did you guys want to describe your music for people that aren’t familiar?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klept: Let’s see, well you know I thought about this a lot. I guess the best way I could describe the music of Klept would be like noisy art rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radio: How long have you been playing together? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klept: With this current lineup, close to a year. Pretty much when quarantine started. It was around this the spring break actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radio: And how has it been being kind of a newly formed band in such a strange time? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klept: I feel like it’s kind of helped us. The quarantine really gave us a lot of time to kind of form our sound, you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radio: Yeah, understandable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where did the name come from? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klept: So, Klept is a root word which means thief and I don’t know I just thought that was kind of cool. And I think it’s kind of cool because–I don’t know if this was your intention at all, but it’s kind of like how every musician kind of steals everything, so the whole Klept thing is basically us just saying, we’re thieves of music. He actually got it from the word biblioklept<\/a>, like book thief and he said it\u2019s something like since I write most of the lyrics he says, I steal a lot from books. So that also works out. It all comes full circle, that’s all. It’s just a name really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n