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Hi, Lainey -
Happy you like the record. I remember this paper… lots of turtles and spots and sea creatures and the like. Thanks for that. You should spend some time with Sid & Marty Krofft (yes, with two ‘f’s)… Do a search on YouTube.
Thank you!
Hi, Anna -
My favorite song on Narrow Stairs is ‘The Ice Is Getting Thinner’, I think. My jam on Field Manual is ‘It’s Unsustainable’… Recording a solo record is a kind of torture. Don’t do it.
Hi Derek -
So great you should ask, as the new AMC and Sun Kil Moon records came out so close to one another!
Were I forced to pick, I’d choose the Red House Painters. I found AMC by way of RHP – it’s not that I love one over the other; rather, it’s that first love sort of thing. The two self-titled RHP records are my favorites, and my favorite AMC record is San Francisco (which seems controversial, but I could never figure out why).
Hey there -
It’s a funny thing… With ‘Plans’, we were really conscious of the major label transition, though we really played it down (even internally, with one another). I think it did affect the music, to a degree. But this new record was made in something of a vacuum, like all our records were before we made the jump – just for ourselves. That’s how we’re most comfortable, and I think it’s how we operate the best.
- Chris
And Jack Bruce. Agreed.
Hi Brandon -
I think Ben’s most recent assessment of the next Postal Service record is accurate: It’s the indie rock Chinese Democracy – you can believe it when you see it, but if you hold your breath, you’ll surely suffocate.
- Chris
I mean, really!! Really?? It’s so ridiculous.
Hey Sharde -
Dude – no shit about the Rainn Wilson bit. Really.
- Chris
Hello, Paige K. Parsons.
Crazy to get that kind of feedback – I think I should thank you? Thank you!
Atlantic has done a great job of keeping this whole leak thing together. I think they’ve also learned that, if there’s a leak, maybe the best thing to do is turn on the faucet (as with the Gnarls Barkley record, for example).
Sincerely,
Christopher R. Walla
Hi Dave!
I sure hope to produce the next T&S record. That’s up to them. I’m there if they want me to be – they’re amazing.
Mike -
Records. I know Ben’s been on a big Gene Clark trip of late. George Jones as well. I don’t know quite what Jason’s been into… Nick has a copy of the new My Morning Jacket record I think. I bet that’s on repeat. For me – Telekinesis!, a band from Portland called Bell Plaines (link below), and the first three WIre records.
Hey Omar -
‘Cath’ is a song that stayed much like Ben’s original demo – there are two or three songs on each record that don’t really change much from his original rendering. We sped it up a little and Jason, especially, made some arrangement tweaks, but it’s pretty true otherwise.
Hi Annie -
Sound Opinions was SO much fun. Totally relaxed and off-the-cuff… I think it’ll be a great piece of radio when it’s all produced and edited.
Running order for a DCfC record is a largely democratic process, usually driven by whoever seems to have the strongest opinion. That’s kind of how we do lots of stuff actually.
And that credits photo… There’s this thing in Australia called The Big Banana. I’ve been sworn to secrecy beyond that, but the photo is from there.
Thanks!
Hey Victoria.
New Candles is in that little collection of songs we may never play on a stage (Coney Island is in there, as is Information Travels Faster, Tomorrow, et cetera). It just doesn’t feel like it would work.
Be well, yo.
Hey Jarrett!
It was kind of a conscious decision to rock it out in the studio, yeah. Very satisfying to make that kind of a mess behind the microphones.
As for software… I’m sad to say you’re asking the wrong person. I like RADAR a lot, and I like tape; either of those is a great way to go.
Touring is unlikely anytime soon, and it’s near impossible that we’d play one of my songs at a DCfC show. Because, as you well know, that’s not the point. I’d be pissed if I ordered apples and got grapes, for example.
That said, thank you, and I’m happy you like the records. Wheee!!
Apples!! Gravensteins, to be specific. There’s a three week window, late every summer, when they’re perfect. All the other apples are but sorry pretenders.
Hi Doug -
The radio things can be weird sometimes, but usually they’re pretty fun. That one was pretty great – XRT is one of the stations that ‘gets it’, as it were. Staffed with nice fellows who actually like music a lot.
Hey Ben!
No argument against The Radiohead Model – the point is that there isn’t any new model, but that they were brilliant enough to convince us otherwise. They’re great at that stuff. They’re also a great band, I’ve just heard much less about that of late than their method of delivery.
Made with the utmost respect, these here sentences. Respecinize.