“Without trying to play the piece, we play it.”
“There is a strong feeling where the music is an abstraction, or an overarching figure, and that is leading us. You feel somewhat disembodied, but in a good way.”
“It’s about sound rather than self-expression, and it’s a nuanced difference but it is different.”
“I wanted those heavy, otherworldly textures that I got from listening to noise and psych and industrial stuff, and I wanted to learn how to write a simple, good, moving melody.”
An interview with two Wham City-affiliated artists… in comic form!
“There’s no one reality. I think that there are layers upon layers of realities, and that’s what we actually experience.”
“I had a broad palette of every color I liked. For this album I decided to use the same palette but only use the more sombre colors.”
“I’m not trying to capture a composition on tape, but it’s more like injecting a tape with sound.”
“The aim is to be the greatest rock band in the world. Maybe that in itself, that kind of belief, is kind of intimidating.”
“The music’s a reflection of the path, and within the path, there’s different – an infinite – variety of approaches you can take. There’s not really a destination.”
“I think [my movies] are all fraught with a certain amount of ambiguity, which often leaves people unclear about when to laugh, whether to laugh, what kind of laughter is being evoked.”
“If there’s a problem that I’m exploring with my lyrics, I’m always confronting the problem, rather than avoiding it to paint a nicer picture.”
“I just wanted to make an album without any compromise or regard for how it would be performed.”
