“In those moments, when we were on the fringes of our reach, it did not feel inviting. It felt like a hard sell,” adds Keeley. “All the stuff we could control felt bulletproof. We could steer our own ship pretty handily. But when we would have these ‘career-making moments’ that bands dream of—being on TV for the first time, playing Coachella’s main stage in front of eighty thousand people—anything like that, we bombed.”
