A year later,Watkins pled guilty.
News broke the week ofPermanences release that Turingskyrocketed the price of an anti-malaria and HIV drugovernight.
Rickly, still on the mend, is recovering and happy with where the band is.
Credit: Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns
No Devotion is currently handpicking a support tour that should launch around the new year and still making music.
(The group has sights set on soundtrack work.)
Until then, Rickly caught up with EW to learn about the music that shaped him.
In specific, I had gotten into that soundtrack,Pump Up The Volume.
That was really cool.
And I was like, Oh my god, where I grew up might as well been Yonkers.
It was so similar.
Hungry Heart was on fkingeverywhere.
This is everything that I need, and yet I think I could write these kinds of songs.
I think I could write songs that are simple, but raw and get to the heart.
I just was like, I think I could do this.
What I Listen To Before A Show: Modern Rap
I love hip-hop before shows.
I love to pump it.
I know a lot of hip-hop.
Specifically now, I want to put onNothing Was The Samefrom Drake, or likeYeezusfrom Kanye.
Those are kind of two touchstones of it, but I just love hip-hop.
How often do people let out their most challenging work once theyre as lauded as he is?
I was so, so happy when it came out.
The last one that hit me like that was Civilian by Wye Oak.
Oh, man.Oh, man.
I was like, Thats a hell of a chorus.
But when I heard that song, I was like, All right, thats a good chorus.'
Fk, I wish I wrote that song.
Thats sort of one of my great hobbies: wishing I wrote songs by [other] people.
Thats the song that Im literally constantly being like, When are we going to write our Helicopter?
Its part of my flying dictionary.
To me, thats a great quality.
My Go-To Karaoke: Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson
I usually lose my voice.
If everybody in the room can sing along, then youre going to have fun.
To me, karaoke is not about music, its about all being together and having a laugh.
To me, thats a perfect jam.
And theres something really satisfying aboutwhen everything stops, then: SINCE U BEEN GONE!
You just belt it.
I think thats a really beautiful mediation on life.
We all end up as the byproduct of everything that we lived through.
I think people are most beautiful when theyve lived through a lot.
