This week, they scored their first No.
1 album with major label debutIridescence.
But this May, their charmed existence was threatened.
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“Listening to the music afterwards makes way more sense.”
“It makes it feel fun and fresh again,” says HK, the group’s creative director.
Still, adds Wood, “Doing a documentary was a new throw in of vulnerability.
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It’s a radical shift to go from expressing yourself in the music to being vulnerable on camera.
There’s no music behind you it’s just your voice and your truth.”
“A lot of this felt like therapy,” says Joba.
“It helped us break down barriers within ourselves that we didn’t know existed.”
“Seeing how we got through what we got through?
“This was really scary.
We have each other.”
“I’m super thankful.”
But even after navigating those early struggles and nabbing a No.
1 album, Abstract knows there’s still plenty of work left to do.
“I just know we all wanna be way more successful.
There’s so much more work that we need to do to be considered one of the greats.”
UPDATE:An earlier version of this story incorrectly called the Brockhampton documentary Longest Summer Ever.
