from having no passion to being unable to be cooled down in 5 years. quite the accomplishment.
Wird einigen in der (teils nicht untoxischen) Fanbase nicht gefallen und auch ich habe angesicchts der Experimentierfreudig von Will Toledo schon erwartet, dass es ein wenig mehr in Richtung elektronischer Elemente gehen wird, aber: gefällt mir!
Es wird übrigens, wenn ich das richtig verstehe, drei leicht unterschiedliche Versionen geben, eine für LP, eine für CD und eine für Streaming:
The album will be available on vinyl and CD featuring distinct tracklists and mixes for each product. (...) To realize this, the band recorded the album twice: once live with guitars, drums and bass, and once in a MIDI environment using purely synthesized sounds. During the mixing process, the two approaches were gradually combined using elements of each, with additional overdubs.
Dazu dann auch noch die nähere Erklärung
Zudem wird Will Toledo live wohl nun eine Maske tragen und als Alter Ego Trait auftreten
But I decided to start wearing a mask for a couple of reasons. One, I still get nervous being onstage with everybody looking at me. If everyone is looking at the mask instead, then it feels like we’re all looking at the same thing, and that is more honest to me. Two, music should be about enjoying yourself, especially live music, and I think of this costume as a way to remind myself and everyone else to have some fun with it. I don’t think it changes anything else about the songs or how you feel about them to be able to drop it for a second and have fun with it. If you can’t do that then you’re in a bad place...
The character comes from another project Andrew and I have been working on called 1 TRAIT DANGER. This is something Andrew started doing on tour¬—recording ideas for his own songs as they came to him, and forcibly enlisting everyone else to participate. It appealed to me because it was nothing like Car Seat Headrest, and the ideas cracked me up. Before we knew it we had two albums released, a video game that was almost impossible to beat, and a growing number of people who seemed to be enjoying it all. It’s been a great outlet for weird and untenable musical experiments, and the live performances have been a blast. I play a character called TRAIT, and we’ve been working out the backstory as we go. I think he spent a lot of time in classified government facilities before getting into the music business.
This is the kind of stuff that kept us going while we were working on MADLO. We were in our own little world and free to try any idea we wanted. A lot of the ideas for 1 Trait bled over to the Car Seat tracks, and vice versa. You just can’t make music without first creating your own environment around it...sound’s always gotta travel through something. This time it was a mask.
Today I want to represent to you fresh song by The Feather called “Sister”. You can check out his previous track following link below. The song is very atmospheric and soft. Almost airy arrangement marged with the beautiful vocal, it’s amazing. I like that bassline, reminds me Metronomy’s music. Also, the song teleports me to the summer time. I don’t know why, but only one thing that appears in my head while listening – beach, warm sand, cool sea and bright sun on the blue sky. Anyway, it’s only my imagination. Just check this out and see yours
Enjoy.
Real Estate enttäuscht mich leider. Dachte es geht mehr in Richtung der ersten Single. Paper Cup ist allerdings mit Abstand das Highlight. Mit You, The Main Thing und Shallow Sun noch ein paar ganz coole Songs dabei aber insgesamt plätschert das alles doch sehr an mir vorbei.
Orielles enttäuscht bisher irgendwie. Im Gegensatz zu Johnossi, das mir ganz gut gefällt, wobei das auch an meinen niedrigen Erwartungen liegen kann. Das Sterne-Album sehr interessant, richtig Bock, mir das als Platte zu holen