We caught up with Chino and Todd while on tour and got a chance to talk with them about their new AC30 Custom Classics.
“I think we’re really rad and the guitarist is really cool,” Team Sleep guitarist Todd Wilkinson jokingly adds when asked how he would describe the new, long-awaited debut. Then he goes on, “It’s a combination of different things. Chino has a loud sound and I play mellow where the mood is soothing. DJ Crook gets into the electronic stuff and all the live instruments. Sonically we create a texture different from a typical rock band.”
Team Sleep also shares Deftones front man Chino Moreno. “In Deftones, there are guidelines that we stay in because of the fan base that we’ve built with this, I’m freer. And, I’m working with different people, and everyone works differently. With Team Sleep, I don’t think about guidelines, I just do what I feel,” Chino describes.
Chino and Todd started off as high school buddies. Their attraction to the same type of music including Bad Brains, The Cure and The Smiths, set them apart from their peers. Later they got an apartment together and started messing around with guitars and writing songs, unknowingly at first, Team Sleep was born. Chino reveals, “I enj
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