We like this part and we want to make a song like this, and we want to have this feeling on stage. So heading into this new album, was there an MO, or was it just a case of racking up spontaneous ideas over time?
A bit of both. What was it about that energy that we loved? It was this raw, kind of rocky unpredictability and spontaneity, that I think we lost a little bit once things started to pick up for us. What kind of guitars were you jamming out on in the studio for this record?
I think a lot of bands like The Breeders use that technique. We used that a bit, and that really made things sound great. I think the other thing was that we used a lot of older gear. They had gear from before that. Tight lows, one amp…. But I left, and then we did a whole really long tour after that. And I feel like things began to get better from the start of that tour. Dumb shit like that. None of us were being our best selves, even the people around us, the vibes got weirder and weirder.
Ryan had left and I thought the band would keep going. Soon enough, the pair had convinced bandmate and bassist Heath Crawley to join them for a pair of reunion shows that would take place at the end of and start of Despite these gigs being billed as one-off events, fans found themselves being surprisingly treated to new material at these shows. Slight confusion reigned in regards to whether this one-off event would lead to a full-time reunion, or if fans had just simply been teased with the promise of what they could never have.
But I think we kind of just talked about it all the time since then. Two of us had kept doing music as our main thing we did, and the other one of us had carved out this whole other life.
Indeed, following their split, Heath Crawley had embarked upon another chapter of his life. He has this whole other life [which is] probably more sensible than [ours]. An aggressively large and masculine photo of a horse looms in the background. By the time everyone has arrived, NME feels like a plus-one at a school reunion.
The singer moved to Brooklyn, dyed his near-waist-length hair electric blond, signed to the Tame Impala imprint Spinning Top and, encouraged by former Avalanches DJ Darren Seltmann, made bizarro electro-psych as Fascinator. What changed to bring the grungy trio back together?
Vagina entered the band! The bassist is young enough to remember buying a Children Collide song on iTunes. The sessions began three years ago, sans Wheatley due to scheduling issues, with producer Loren Humphrey in upstate New York.
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