Quiet as a Mouse Doesn’t Want to Live in Yesterday
Punk Head: What is the oldest memory on this album?
Quiet as a Mouse: It’s a few really personal ones in the verses of the album track ‘Dolls Eyes’. The oldest song from the album is ‘Cocaine Soul.’ It was in the within the first batch of 3 or 4 songs where I really stepped up in quality. As in I knew I had jumped up to a level I wanted to be working at/be achieving. Before that, my first maybe handful of songs were fine/okay. I wrote this song in my first one-bedroom flat I lived in when I moved to Edinburgh.
Punk Head: If someone has never heard Quiet as a Mouse before, which song on the album tells them the most about who Alex Moran is in 2026?
Quiet as a Mouse: Probably ‘1999’ it is melancholic, wistful, leading into the directness of the chorus. The chorus hook line has the lyric where the album title was taken from ‘Nostalgia is fine…but do you really wanna be looking back all the time?’. Along with this hook line, my favourite part of the song like quite a few of my songs is the outro/ending of the song!
Punk Head: A lot of artists become more guarded as they get older. This record sounds like you've gone the opposite way. Why?
Quiet as a Mouse: I’m still trying to improve, of course as we get older, we lose a bit of what we had in our early stages of writing and being in our early 20’s. I also want to show my personality and be myself in my music. I suppose I’ve improved and developed being able to open up even more in my songs, I’m less focused on trying to find a song which will break through.
Punk Head: How do you embrace nostalgia while resisting its pull?
Quiet as a Mouse: It’s a hard balancing act haha…I think having memories is wonderful and are a great inspiration, but I try my best to move forward/push forward and live in the moment too.
Punk Head: How does an artist balance maturity and vulnerability with the energy of punk and grunge influences?
Quiet as a Mouse: I’m not sure really, like we were saying before, I just try to be myself. So hopefully all these things and sides to my personality and influences come through in some way with my music and songs.
Punk Head: What does "home" mean after living in so many different places?
Quiet as a Mouse: Home to me is a feeling and memories, especially of when I was a kid and teenager. Although, I’ve lived in lots of different places within Australia and the UK, I have a small feeling of home in a handful of these places and times in my life. It’s pretty cool in that way but also a shame I don’t have that one place which feels truly like home. You might have heard my early single ‘ Home Is The Hardest Place To Find’ it’s about this for me and it being hard to find.
