Interview on Audacity (Radio)
About the new album
"It is very rich in writing. I wanted to produce the songs around the writing. Some of them are more abstract in that way. I love Frank Ocean and his production style. I feel like he wrote it first, and then put emphasis from the wordw into the music. But some of the sings on the album are more like funzie – and some are more like artistic and weird, and some you can sing in the car – there is a good balance.
The album, turned out better than I could ever have imagined. It ended up being way more conceptual – it was way bigger than I was expecting, and I began to lean into what was naturally happening there, because this is really abstract and cool. It is coming out in early 2025."
About the writing process "I am obsessed with the Melotron. I basically write everything on it, and I always have. And it normally starts there. The hard thing about an album is that I am a very fluctuating person, so I have to force myself to stay in a phase, which is not natural to me at all. I am basically a re-invented person weekly. So I am trying to stay in the mentality of my album and not move on before it is even released."
The break with Columbia and being with Pulse Records
"Oh my god, it’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I was writing 'What’s left of me', and then Columbia dropped me. And I got rid of everyone around me. I got that call, and they were like – oh, and you can’t have any of the music that you have made in this long time, like 40 songs – I had so many songs. – but it was trash, let them have it. And I was like – I am going to fucking write an album and do this right, the way I always knew it should be. I feel like every single day for the past six months, at least once a day, I am like – I fucking knew it was real [that it could be this way], I knew it was real, and I am doing it right now, and I knew that people could work like that. I was so afraid of change for a really long time. Because I have been doing this for so long that a lot of the people that were around me were like family – I have known them since I was 12 years old. And you can feel so trapped and stuck. But I knew that change needed to happen because things weren’t really working. And my personal life was weirdly exactly mirroring this – things were going wrong because I can’t let go of things, and I am staying in places, for the mere fact of staying there. And then I did one thing and pulled the trigger and then and then five great things happened. I was fighting for the songs for a little bit, and they were like – no, you can’t have them or pay us like a billion dollars. And then I was like – I should not have even one last string attached to this. That was the last block – the songs, of everything. The universe is telling me so explicitly – good things are happening when you are letting go."
Whats next?
"We are doing some live music stuff [soon] --- wait, am I leaking my own plan … vane I leak my own plan? I feel like I am the boss of my own plan. We are going to do little acoustic versions of the singles that I think people are going to really like.” … And I want to study more art history, because that has been helpful for me in my career."