{"id":465125,"date":"2022-06-16T21:25:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bartees-strange-hurries-up-and-waits\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T21:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:25:43","slug":"bartees-strange-hurries-up-and-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bartees-strange-hurries-up-and-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bartees Strange hurries up and waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27bd9f3a07a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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gratitude, guilt, and the power of time on the latest episode of The FADER Interview.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Bartees_Strange_3_2022_Luke_Piotrowski_1_xff2nr\/the-fader-interview-bartees-strange.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Bartees_Strange_3_2022_Luke_Piotrowski_1_xff2nr\/the-fader-interview-bartees-strange.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Bartees_Strange_3_2022_Luke_Piotrowski_1_xff2nr\/the-fader-interview-bartees-strange.jpg 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alt=\"Fdr socialsharing twitter\"><br \/>\n    <!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\" alt=\"Logo snapchat\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233874\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\">Bartees Strange<\/span> has leaned so heavily into his idiosyncrasies that calling his music \u201cgenreless\u201d is sort of a cliche. The Ipswich-born, Oklahoma-raised artist\u2019s debut EP, <i>Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy<\/i>, reimagined five songs by The National, turning them into soaring, stirring, brand new things so arresting that Aaron and Bryce Dessner put it out on their own label. His debut album, <i>Live Forever<\/i>, released in the fall of 2020, capitalized on that success emphatically, collapsing indie, hip-hop, emo, and R&amp;B into each other with such gleeful abandon that the critics who heaped praise on it seemed to have been caught genuinely off-guard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            His new album, <i>Farm To Table<\/i>, belongs in the same universe as its predecessor \u2014 the uniquely braggadocious \u201cCosigns\u201d is, for example, a callback to Live Forever\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3c543e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AKzqUjUmbTQ\">Mossblerd<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0but he\u2019s still taking risks. Often that involves pulling back, as he does on the gorgeous acoustic track \u201cTours,\u201d or even the mellow arena-country of \u201cEscape This Circus\u2019\u201d first two-thirds \u2014 but what really lingers is the creative ambition of his lyrics \u2014\u00a0the leaps from imperiousness to gratitude and guilt, the meditations on his past and excitement for his future, the commentary on the industry he\u2019s learning to navigate and the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> injustices that often seem impossible to circumvent. No idea, musical or lyrical, is off-limits for Bartees Strange. What\u2019s remarkable is how fully he realizes those ideas when they cross his mind.<\/p>\n<p>            Earlier this week, a couple of months on from our first conversation for The FADER Interview Live on Amp, I called Bartees at his home in Washington DC to talk about his creative restlessness, the inevitable costs of sudden success, and the next album he\u2019s already almost finished.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233837\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233836\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>This Q&amp;A is taken from the latest episode of The FADER Interview. To hear this week\u2019s show in full, and to access the podcast\u2019s archive, click <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3c543e\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/thefaderinterview\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n          <\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233838\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: Last time we spoke, you\u2019d just released \u201cCosigns\u201d and announced <i>Farm to Table<\/i>. You were very excited. You had a whole cycle in front of you, plus you\u2019d just released this hyper-confident song. How do you feel now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Bartees Strange:<\/b> I\u2019m excited, but I\u2019m nervous as hell \u2014 Like, \u201cOh my God, let this album come out already so I can sleep again!\u201d Last album, I was just like, \u201cLet\u2019s see where it goes.\u201d And now it\u2019s all this press and all these lead-up things. At [my] core, I\u2019m still just proud of the music. I\u2019m proud we finished another good album and I\u2019m excited to make another. I\u2019m already like, \u201cCool, let\u2019s do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Your debut was so critically acclaimed. Do you feel added pressure the second time around knowing that people will be watching?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, but I\u2019m confident in what I do. I\u2019m gonna do what I do, period. I\u2019ve never been good at chasing the wave, doing what I think people are gonna like. That\u2019s not how I got here in the first place. I still wantna make stuff I\u2019m gonna have fun playing every night. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233839\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bartees Strange - Cosigns\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpvfTTGwJSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233839');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233840\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Wretched\u201d is in some sense is the flip side of \u201cCosigns.\u201d You\u2019ve got this hyper-confident song, and then there\u2019s this other side of gratitude to the people around you. Was it important to introduce that in advance of the record?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Of all the songs, [\u201cWretched\u201d] was the one I\u2019d wanted to write for [the longest] time. I demoed it for the first time probably three years ago, but I could never figure out what I wanted it to be about. Last year, as I was writing this record, I kept coming back to this point of gratitude\u2026 these key people that showed up and helped me get things done when they didn\u2019t have to. At points I felt wretched, like no one was gonna help me figure this out, so I [thought] it was an important vibe to wire into the album, which is mainly about this transition I\u2019m going through in my life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Transition from what to what, exactly?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            When I started making music in my teenage years, I wanted to be like Tunde Adebimpe or Kele [Okereke] from Bloc Party. I would see those guys and I\u2019d be like, \u201cWhoa, that\u2019s me.\u201d And then [I realized], \u201cAh, maybe that\u2019s not me, maybe I need a job.\u201d So in my 20s, I worked until I became really unfulfilled and started this seven-year journey of playing in bands and making stuff until I wrote <i>Live Forever<\/i>. When that album came out, I was able to quit my job and focus on this thing that I thought was impossible. All that h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening during a pandemic, when there wasn\u2019t a lot of movement in my life, [gave me an] opportunity to reflect on what my options [were] with music. This record is about that: <i>Farm to Table<\/i>, rags to riches, going from a place where nobody knows who you are to  being at a table with people you\u2019ve looked up to forever and feeling like, \u201cHow do I do this?\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233841\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bartees Strange - Wretched\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyp68lLGwC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233841');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233842\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>There\u2019s a flip side to that, too, and it comes up on \u201cHeavy Heart.\u201d Despite your compulsion to keep creating and writing and performing, there\u2019s a human cost. You talk about being unable to be around people while they\u2019re having kids or getting married. On a bitter\u2013sweet scale, how much of that is bitter and how much is sweet?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Some days it\u2019s more bitter and some days it\u2019s more sweet, but I know that\u2019s what life is. In my quest to have everything, I often realize I can\u2019t. Songs like \u201cHeavy Heart,\u201d \u201cWretched,\u201d \u201cCosigns,\u201d \u201cBlack Gold\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s me coming to grips with that and [realizing it\u2019s] okay, because the thing I\u2019m doing right now makes me feel most alive. I\u2019m serving my purpose, and I\u2019m gonna figure out how to hold the relationships and be there for the people I care about, but I have to be more intentional now. Time is this thing I look at a different way now than I did a few years ago. I\u2019m a lot more intentional with how I spend it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>When we last spoke, you said you\u2019d always been a little dissatisfied, and that discomfort pushed you to quit your job as a spokesperson and to make <i>Live Forever<\/i>. How did you get to the point where you accepted that about yourself, and how did you figure out how to embrace that and channel it into something good?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            There was a point in my life when it wasn\u2019t a healthy thing. You can\u2019t just move through life being dissatisfied with everything. You\u2019ve got to eventually hit a point where you can hold something in both hands, like, \u201cThis was good, but I want more, but I\u2019m grateful for this.\u201d I used to feel guilty for feeling that, like, \u201cWhy am I the only one that wants to leave home? Everyone else seems to be happy staying here. I wish I could be happy\u2026 but I feel like there\u2019s something else.\u201d [Now] I count my dissatisfaction [as] my heart telling me to move on to the next chapter. That\u2019s how I\u2019m living so far. It\u2019s fine for now; we\u2019ll see how it changes.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>How does that work in the studio? The conversation you have to have three or four times a day with guys like me is about how your music is genreless and how you\u2019re collapsing lots of sounds into each other. But that speaks to you hearing an idea and going, \u201cHow can we push this further?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            When I\u2019m in the studio, I\u2019m a vibe chaser to the max, like, \u201cLet\u2019s just go where the song is taking us.\u201d With \u201cWretched\u201d and \u201cCosigns\u201d and some of these bigger songs on the record, it was just, \u201cWhat\u2019s the vibe? Is it gonna be a <i>Life of Pablo<\/i>, blown-out vocals thing? Okay, let\u2019s go all the way there, hold nothing back, make the reference as clear as possible.\u201d With \u201cBlack Gold,\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cIs this gonna be a <i>22, A Million<\/i>, Big Red Machine, drum thing with a distorted vocal? Cool, let\u2019s go all the way.\u201d Once I smell the vibe\u2026 there\u2019s nothing I won\u2019t try. I guess I\u2019m being described as a restless person in the studio, [but] I feel clear and slow and deliberate. I don\u2019t feel shaky, like, \u201cHow do I one-up myself? How do I make this genreless?\u201d It\u2019s just, \u201cWhat does the song wanna do? Let\u2019s do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            I taught myself how to do all this stuff in my room, watching YouTube videos and learning about compression and saturation and how to use all this stuff, and realizing the people I look up to, this is how they\u2019re getting these sounds. Along the way, these people I emulated as a kid, I grew into pieces of all of them. When I\u2019m writing a rock song, it\u2019s obvious I like The National and TV On The Radio and Bloc Party. You can hear that all over \u201cHeavy Heart.\u201d So when I\u2019m in the studio and I\u2019m writing, I\u2019m confident because I\u2019ve been doing this stuff forever. And I\u2019m not just singing in the booth: I\u2019m running the session, I have all the stems, I have the gear, and I know how to use it. It\u2019s like, I can sell houses real good because I know where the wood is, how to build the house, what the window shades should be, how long the driveway should be \u2014 I\u2019ve measured it a million times. That\u2019s how I feel about music. I\u2019ve done the 10,000 hours. After <i>Live Forever<\/i>, I had a lot of people [asking], \u201cAre you scared?\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not scared at all.\u201d If it sucks, I\u2019ll just make another record.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233843\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bartees Strange - Heavy Heart (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zO9VEB9lfXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233843');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233844\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>That complete understanding of the process from the ground up, how does that compare to playing live? I know you\u2019ve been in a lot of bands, but playing under your own name now, there\u2019s a lot of different moving parts.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Live is a new thing for me. I didn\u2019t know how I was going to do \u201cWretched\u201d and \u201cCosigns\u201d live, [but] I\u2019ve figured it out. And I\u2019m like, \u201cOh shit, I know how to do this now!\u201d Just like I\u2019ve gotten so into recording and writing songs, I feel myself getting into the live production of the music. You hear a Bartees Strange record and it\u2019s a lot of sounds: hip-hop, house, big rock songs, chill acoustic shit, whatever. I feel like the best way to make those records land is to perform them in all of their glory and transitions. People are gonna expect me to press a button and just run the song, but I\u2019m gonna show them it\u2019s way deeper than that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            [Radiohead\u2019s] <i>In Rainbows<\/i> was the album that changed how I saw live performances. I remember hearing the drum loops and trying to figure out [what drum machine it was] for like two years. [Then I saw] them live and realized Philip Selway is playing those drums on a drum pad \u2014 it sounds like a computer, but he\u2019s playing it. That shit messed me up. And watching the guitar players interact with modular rigs and then [go] back to the guitar, and then [play] piano and a little percussion. It\u2019s all these little things that on the record, you\u2019re just like, \u201cnice song.\u201d But when you see it happen in front of you, it\u2019s like watching a magic show. That was something I loved about The National when I first saw them live: how you could see the choreography of the song. It brings even more depth because you see how much work these people are doing to create a crazy listening experience. They could have just pressed play on a backing track, but they were like, \u201cNo, let\u2019s do it the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Does the chance that it might fail excite you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Luckily we haven\u2019t had a big live fuckup yet, but it\u2019ll happen, and that kind makes it fun for us because when we pull it off, we look at each other like, \u201cNobody knows how close that was to a train wreck.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233845\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bartees Strange - Hold the Line (Official Audio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9SB1Zop0Ko4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233845');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233846\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>You said you were starting to think about new music again. Have you actually started writing?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Yeah, it\u2019s almost done.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Wow. When did you start? How much overlap will there be when I interview you later?<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>            They\u2019re related. <i>Farm to Table<\/i> is an excellent foundation for what happens next. I\u2019m really excited about this whole little world these three albums will be. All of it\u2019s interlinked to me. There\u2019s some very deliberate connections between the next few.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>The next few? You really are looking forward just a long way.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            That\u2019s why I\u2019m so excited about this one, because I know what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>The relationship between, say, \u201cCosigns\u201d off the new record and \u201cMossblerd\u201d from <i>Live Forever<\/i>, are these links in the chain?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Those are examples, but as it goes forward, it gets tighter. We\u2019ll talk about that soon. Everyone at the label is begging me [to stop] talking about the next one. [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You released an album that you never suspected would be released while we were locked indoors, and everybody fell in love with it. <i>Live Forever<\/i> would\u2019ve made a lot of sense at parties and in live venues, but instead, everyone attaches themselves to it while alone. And then you write this second album while dealing with the pressures of fame and acclaim, completely indoors.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <i>Live Forever<\/i> came out when everyone was indoors, but it was written when everything was normal, about a year-and-a-half before the pandemic. I could never find a label to put it out, so I just sat on it. [<i>Farm To Table<\/i>] was made after my first time touring the country, with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Like, what the fuck? Last time I made a record I took seven days off work and went to a cabin in Wassaic, New York with my friends. We brought our gear and tracked some music. Now I\u2019m at a 4AD studio in London and the engineer is paid for and I can do whatever I want.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            [Before] the next record, I want some time to pass. I want to get through this record and experience some shit before I stamp it. It\u2019s similar in some ways, but it\u2019s an exploration of its own. When I finished <i>Farm to Table<\/i>, part of me wanted to combine them, but <i>Farm to Table<\/i> spun left and the other one spun right, and I was like, \u201cOkay, these are two different worlds. I\u2019m gonna finish this one and it\u2019ll set up the next one.<\/p>\n<p>            In all creation, time is the most important factor. When I look at the things I wanna do next, some of them I don\u2019t know how to do or explain. The only way I\u2019ll learn them is with time \u2014 time that\u2019s gonna be granted to me largely because of this album. I take that very seriously. I also never stop writing. I love writing music, producing records, fiddling around with stuff, buying gear and seeing what it inspires me to do. These next couple years, [while I] tour this record, I\u2019ll produce two or three albums, but I\u2019m gonna let them sit for a while. People think I write really fast, but a lot of the things coming out are things I started a long time ago \u2014 I\u2019m just good enough to finish them now because of time.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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