You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
ALAN PALOMOSo 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 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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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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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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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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You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.
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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 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 never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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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 subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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