I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
ALAN PALOMOBut all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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 all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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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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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.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.
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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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