Dalmatian
Touching Ice Interview
by Joseph McCain
21 June 2026
Dom
Abbey
What's your favorite dog breed?
Mine's a Whippet. I love Whippets, or I can't think of their name, but they're calling them Chinese street dogs. They literally look like AI-generated dogs when you look them up on Instagram, but they're real dogs.
They’re the toy dogs?
Yeah they kind of look like a really fluffy shibas.
What about you Abbey?
I would kind of agree with the Whippets. We used to rescue Greyhounds and stuff.
Did you really? Whoa. I'm just learning this info right now. Abbey has a two really cute white weiner dogs.
Dachsunds are the other ones. What’s yours?
It’s actually probably not Dalmatians. I really like the big dogs, and tricolor dogs, so maybe Bernese mountains dogs. I also love greyhounds.
What's one of your pet peeves that has been getting triggered lately? Bro, wait, where are you going? No one has ever interviewed in a moving car.
I'm in the car with my girlfriend. Uh, she's driving, but it's technically to drop her off at work. And then I'm gonna go to the pool and swim.
I think my pet peeve that's been getting triggered a lot is usually a driving one since I've been back in LA– Traffic. Or when the Apple Map's ETA is wrong. When I signal, and then someone speeds up because they don't wanna be behind me.
I'm like, you wanted to get one car in front of me that badly?
Who talks the most in your group chat?
Me.
It depends on the day. I feel like we all do. Sometimes it feels like we're talking to the void.
Yeah. Sometimes Abbey talks into the void. Sometimes I'm talking into the void.
Mainly in our Instagram DMs, I'm talking the most. I'm sending the most slop.
Do you prefer punching in or writing lyrics?
I guess writing lyrics.
What do you like about American flag symbolism?
I don’Pt like American flags. The flag feels like a looming threat. Gives me the scaries.
Do you prefer a live set or DJing?
Depends on the situation.
We prefer doing the live set, as a group, but we definitely have a lot of fun DJing. I love to DJ.
It's epic when you get to DJ. I wouldn't wanna play live at a house party, for example, but I'd love to DJ it.
I loved the “There Is So Much Pain in the World but Not In This Room” meme reference.
I don't know if people know that it refers to that. Actually, I don't think anyone's ever mentioned that.
Yeah, I don't think anybody's mentioned that.
Really? I feel like it's not even that much of a deep cut.
I didn't think so either.
What are you most excited for looking forward?
The remix album that we just dropped. We're also doing some summer dates with Feeble Little Horse that we're super excited about. The remix album's really fun. We have around 23 different artists on there that we really love.
It was fun making that. That was one of my favorite experiences in this music project.
We just let everybody pick what song they wanted to do.
And it's lots of our friends, too, which was awesome, banding together to finally get to work on something.
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