The Minneapolis City Pages interviews Dan Hoerner of Sunny Day Real Estate about the band's reunion.

Back in the late '90s, there were a bunch of great bands--Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring, Burning Airlines, Jets to Brazil, Braid--that were all called emo, and it seemed like a horrible name for some really quality music. But now it's an accurate name for some terrible music. At the time, did you feel any kind of connection to a scene or those other bands?

I definitely felt a connection with bands that cited Sunny Day as an influence from the sheer standpoint of being completely honored and completely blown away that somebody liked our music enough to consider it as something that inspired them. I never really looked at a band to see what they sounded like because every single band is just made up of monkeys with noisemakers who are just desperately trying to say something about their reality so it doesn't matter. Human beings have been making noise and trying to express themselves to each other as long as there's been human beings. So to me it's irrelevant whether they sound a little bit like this or a little bit like that.

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