![]() The line of where the Sidekicks ended and superviolet began is rather blurred. I can do all of these things.’ For as long as I can remember, the majority of the songs I’d write would be around the spring, for that reason.” Then you have that amazing one day in Ohio, and it’s almost like your New Year’s resolutions really start then. “But, it’s hard, because affects you in such a way. “For me, it was always like, in the winter, you think you would get all of this work done and you think that’s the time when artists are able to be very productive-because there’s not as much social things going on,” he says. Ciolek’s former band’s reach remains infinite, because albums like Runners in Nerved World and Happiness Hours were emblematic of being young, in love and mesmerized by the summer solstice’s immeasurable and beautiful tempest. On Twitter last week, an account I follow-but have no recollection of ever consciously following-posted a screenshot of the Sidekicks song “Twin’s Twist” and proclaimed that spring in the Midwest doesn’t start until that track is on repeat. Ciolek buys into all of that, too, and it’s a big reason why the new album is called Infinite Spring.Ĭiolek’s work has always been in a close proximity to warm weather. ![]() But then it leaves us just as quick as it came. To be from Ohio is to understand-and believe in-the mythological spirit of a “fool’s spring,” where the onslaught of snow suddenly snaps into uncomfortable warmth, and all of us are sure-convinced-that spring and summer are here to stay. Without a hitch, the cold-trodden weather tumbled into a string of 75-degree days. The week leading up to our conversation, Columbus had opened up. It’s also where Ciolek landed his first-ever kickflip. So, we meet up with each other at Goodale Park, a 172-year-old oasis in the heart of Victorian Village. Being that Ciolek and I live in the same place-beautiful Columbus-it felt like a no-brainer to do something in the city that spawned Infinite Spring. In the wake of COVID-19 and remote work, I rarely get to do an interview with someone in-person. Oh, and he’s also about to put out his debut solo record, Infinite Spring, under the moniker superviolet. In his spare time away from school, Ciolek walks the streets of Victorian Village with his wife Kosoma and sings Coldplay songs with her, digs for soul vinyls at Used Kids Records on Summit Avenue, has grown to not be all that impressed with the local grub on nearby High Street and volunteers with golfers impacted by chronic pain. It’s an occupation that runs in his family, and it makes sense that the guy who has spent almost two decades chronicling pain through existentialism and young heartbreak can also deduce the source of someone’s bodily pain on a dime. Now, Ciolek is a graduate student studying physiotherapy at Ohio State University, with the hopes of possibly becoming a physical therapist down the road. It was a financial saving grace that allowed the Sidekicks to record and practice infinitely and play with the bands they felt drawn to, not the bands that could snag them big paydays on the road playing house shows and dives across Northeast and Middle Ohio put them in the same company as local legends, like Runaway Brother, Ulysses and Meridian. Touring for over a decade and visiting every city scratched that itch, and he and the band were more than comfortable coming from a place where rent was dirt cheap and the DIY scenes were plentiful. ![]() When he was fronting the Sidekicks-the Buckeye State’s beloved coterie of emo, power-pop sharks-hubs like Chicago, Brooklyn and Philadelphia were always destinations, but never fantasies of a possible forever. Steve Ciolek has seen America many times over, but he’s content with staying in Ohio for as long as the state will hold both him and his buds. ![]()
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