With their new album out in the world, and plans of touring put on hold, Ben Lee and Josh Radnor discuss their latest record and plans for the future (via rollingstoneaus)
, which is an album that I really, really loved. She was all set to tour with it, they were right about to hit the road with the record and couldn’t. But she was reflecting on how there is something in that record, even though it was created before.
When did the creative process of the record start? The first one arrived in 2017, but the both of you have been pretty busy over the last couple of years. So, when did you find time to really get down to making a new album?Well, we had this great tour to South America, where it shook up our idea what we were and who we wanted to be as a duo.
Was there anything specifically that you guys really were trying to do differently this time around? Obviously with Josh playing guitar, that would’ve been different, but was there anything else you attempted to improve on or change for this record?I think it was more like connected to live performance, like, tracking as much as we could on every song live. Rehearsing, we rehearsed a lot for this record. That was just a vital part of making [older] records.
That is obviously where a lot of bands that have found themselves really thriving, on the live stage. To hear that onto the album, the end result feels very representative of what you two do.I also think that recording technology has become so inexpensive and so easy. Like you have 12-year old’s learning Logic and Pro Tools and able to make the most perfectly quantised beats and samples. And it’s almost like the challenge of making perfect sounding records is no longer a challenge.
So, I think as a guiding philosophy that was kind of what it was, and the folk country thing I think is… just for me, you know, that’s the music I grew up with. And I really respond well to three and four chord songs. There’s something where my ear wants to resolve chords, my ear wants tap along. You know, we write our own melodies on top of them, but they’re kind of these classical structures.
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