It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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There’s a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.
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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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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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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 wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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