Earlier this year, we put Magnolia Park on the cover of Kerrang! to celebrate the release of their Heart Eater EP, and frontman Joshua Roberts revealed of how their forward-thinking pop-punk sound came about: “A couple of the guys came to the rest of us and said, ‘Hey, we’ve been working on some stuff that’s a little different and we want to know what you think.’
“Up until that point we were just a little pop-punk band with no layers underneath the songs and nothing auxiliary in there to augment the music – it was real bare-bones stuff. But then we started doing something that was completely different to what other bands were doing at the time.”
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