There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
ALAN PALOMOI think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
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You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.
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There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.
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I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
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