ifitbeyourwill Podcast: A year in intimate conversations and genre-bending discoveries

When you think about the vital threads weaving through indie music in 2025, ifitbeyourwill Podcast stands as one of those understated connectors — a show that doesn’t just interview artists, but listens to them. Across the 22 episodes of Season 6, host colleyc carved out a space that was cozy but incisive, unhurried but revealing, and always deeply invested in how and why these musicians make their art. 

Rubber Band Gun: The One-Man Machine

In late December, If It Be Your Will welcomed Kevin Basko, the mastermind behind Rubber Band Gun — a project that thrives on the tension between analog warmth and DIY restlessness. Basko’s episode was a rare glimpse into how limitations — technical and personal — can become artistic fuel. His hybrid analog workflow, a self-imposed “RBG25” challenge, and reflections on borrowing traditions without mimicking them felt like lessons in artistic identity. It was not just a conversation about music, but about the joy of doing it your way. 

Highschool: Lockdown Roots to Global Aspirations

The Melbourne-born Highschool brought something else to the mic: urgency. Their episode captured the raw velocity of a band formed in lockdowns and hardened by intention. With unfiltered talk of turning mood into melody and image into sound, this is a project that feels primed to define the indie rock trajectory of the next few years — not through bombast, but through craft. 

Eades: Post-Punk Poetry in Motion

December’s conversation with Eades — the duo of Harry Jordan and Tom O’Reilly — was a study in how personal history finds its way into sound. From Pink Floyd–blasted mornings to a songwriting partnership born of opposites attracting, Eades reminded us that post-punk energy doesn’t have to be kinetic chaos; it can be thoughtful, meticulous, and evocative. 

Ada Lea: Vulnerability Turned into Voice

One of the season’s most tender conversations belonged to Ada Lea (Alexandra Levy), whose path from singing Christina Aguilera in a bedroom to teaching voice at Concordia University was equal parts relatable and profound. This episode distilled what makes If It Be Your Will so compelling: it’s not only the music, it’s the becoming — the honing of voice, the negotiation with setbacks, and the art of living a creative life with sincerity.

sundayclub and the Alchemy of Serendipity

In early December, sundayclub offered a conversation about the kind of serendipity that defines so much of indie output — a guitar pulled from storage, a fortuitous concert encounter — and how these unplanned moments shape sonic identity. Their warm, hazy dream-pop ethos was as much a reflection on creative process as it was on how art feels in the moment. 

Why This Matters

What unifies these episodes — from Rubber Band Gun’s analog experiments to Ada Lea’s reflective storytelling — is a refusal to be rushed. In a musical era obsessed with virality and metrics, If It Be Your Will offers something rarer: depth. Here, tempo isn’t measured in streams per minute, but in meaning per conversation. That’s a big part of why the show has become such a vital soundtrack to 2025 — not just as a document of artists’ lives, but as an archive of how indie music feels alive. 

And if Season 6 is any indication, 2026 is poised to be even richer — a year where the quiet stories of process, place, and persistence become as compelling as the music itself.

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