R/listentothis is a place to discover music by new or overlooked artists. If you have questions, send us a modmail.Avoid styles you dislike, don't downvote them.Use the report button! Report any uncivil behavior or hostility in comments.Don't be a jerk, and remember to be kind to others. I think we stick in the medium tempo range. So, I’ll take it because nobody has heard any of the new music, but I don’t think it’s a good representation of the record because we tried to vary the tempo. I think it’s fair to call the first record slowcore, but I don’t think it’s fair to call the second record slowcore. Do you agree with that? How do you define it? People have been writing about your music saying it’s slowcore. If someone else wants to be pathetic, I can very much respect that, but it’s not just me. It’s good to be vulnerable, but not pathetic. I don’t want to put myself in a place in a song that’s pathetic. "Pristine" is very self-deprecating, sarcastic and melodramatic. How do you approach writing about teenage love, unrequited love and crushes? I’m never worried about how people will interpret lyrical content as long as it feels special to me. I think it’s all up to the songwriters comfort levels. So if that means citing a specific experience someone will recognise it’s about, I don’t really think it’s off limits. I like to think the more personal the topic, the less bored I get on stage every night. Is there anything off-limits for you to write about? I think around the same time as "Thinning” I wrote it because I was trying to make something more upbeat and fun to play on stage, so I see how they both came to be the singles. There are a lot of songs on the record that were freakier, but not as accessible and fun. I don’t know There are so many moving gears at Matador Records and obviously nothing happens without my thumbs up, but I have no idea where "Pristine" came from. How did you land on “Pristine” as one of the singles? I will say that it’s never been intentional to bring any of that to the table, but I think that just because it’s personal to me, I try to make sure that comes out in the songwriting and that gives people an in to bring their own experiences to it. I think it’s really cool that people can bring their own experience to that and everyone can have their own personal relationship with it. I think the singer-songwriter genre often comes with blunt lyricism. I think people tend to just relate to things that are vulnerable, intimate and specific. You and artists like Soccer Mommy seem to really connect with people, because of the way your lyrics come across as universally relatable A lot of creatively independent brains come out of there, and I think it’s not a place people go in order to hack it which is why I think so many creative albums and songwriters flock to there. Obviously we have Future Islands, Beach House and Lower Dens. There’s this group called Outer Spaces that’s really great. They’re a two-piece usually - maybe a four piece right now - have really inspiring songwriting. Some really incredible bands that we have going on right now are Romantic States - they opened up our show at the Ottobar. I’m rarely home now, and when I am home I don’t get to the gigs much. I feel kind of removed from it right now. How did the Baltimore music scene influence you?
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It was a really interesting experience packed full of surprises and difficulty, but it was really cool.
I had infinite resources coming from the Matador departments, which would be incredible. All the people I worked with in the process of recording were amazing and wonderful. I wanted it to be a really concise record as our debut, and I spent a lot of time trying to make everything exactly how I wanted it to be. I wrote something like 30 songs in the process of trying to narrow it down to 10. The span of time it was written was really long.
"Pristine" was written right directly around the time we were writing Habit. I wrote it over the span of a year-and-a-half, right up to being in the studio and having to write one or two more and then recording it the next day. Tell us about how this record came together I think the “p-word” exists for a small few in the music world.
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