We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
FINNEASThe excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
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I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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