OPUS KINK

Their reference points are eclectic and varied, “it's kind of a happy fuckup of lots of different influences and tastes smashed together,” explains Angus, “we listen to punk music, we listen to jazz music, we listen to funk music, you know? So it's kind of more entertaining to hear what people think it is or would like it to be.” Unsurprisingly then, there's no game plan for radical genre subversion, “it's just running down the street grabbing things off different stalls and throwing them at the wall,” claims Angus, “no game plan of, ‘right, we're gonna turn jazz into punk,’ or anything like that.” To which Sam and Jed howl, “we're a rock band with a saxophone and trumpet. Stop beating around the bush!” The others laugh, “we never said we were a rock band until Jack told us that we were,” confesses Angus. “We wouldn't admit it,” adds Jazz. What does seem clear is their drive to keep evolving. Jazz claims that the new material they're working on at the moment is very different to what it has been, “it's always changing, always moving. I think that is the Opus Kink sound.”