🔸⭐🔸𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗜𝗠 𝗔𝗕𝗕𝗜𝗦𝗦🔸⭐🔸

Dear friends,
today I have for you a translation from a Polish interview that Placebo provided to the well-known Polish music publicist Piotr Stelmach shortly after the release of "Sleeping With Ghosts" album. I really like the passage where Brian talks about the album producer 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗶𝘀𝘀..

Photo credit: Carole Epinette

🔸𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑦 𝐴𝑏𝑏𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔:
⭐Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Björk, DJ Shadow, Sneaker Pimps, IAMX, Massive Atack, The Verve, Editors, Adele, Amy MacDonald.⭐
So let's read why our guys wanted to work with such an important person in the music world.
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🔸𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 (𝗡𝗢𝗡)𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗭𝗢𝗡𝗘, 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟯🔸
💬/***/ 𝑂𝑘, 𝑙𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚. 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 7𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑀𝐼 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑤. 𝐼 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ. ...
[loud laughter of all three]
BM: "Great! And that's it!"


💬 𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝐵𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑?
BM: "In a way, yes. It was our response to the relationship that developed in the studio between us and our producer Jim Abbiss. First of all, this time we wanted to work with someone who grew up in the culture of British dance music. It wasn't supposed to be some American rock producer. We believe that rock must move forward, take on futuristic features and adopt elements of contemporary, culturally important genres such as electronics and hip hop.
Jim Abbiss has worked with such artists as DJ Shadow, Sneaker Pimps, U. N. K. L. E., Bjork, and Massive Attack. And that's partly why we decided on his person. He had a bit of freedom, and we wanted someone to give us a hard kick in the ass. We expected Jim to keep us motivated at every stage of creating new songs."


💬 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡? 𝐷𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑎 "𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔"?
BM: "Come on! It was terrifying! During the first week of work, he presented his ideas to us. We were devastated. He rearranged the songs, changed their pace and duration. Honestly, he fucked everything up [laughs]!
And then, as if nothing had happened, he asked: "What do you guys say?" We didn't know what to say because the dumpling was in our throat.
Imagine taking a Fiat Uno apart and putting it back together like a Skoda. Absolute shock!
Jim drifted hard towards the electronics and we started jamming Bulletproof Cupid in response, as if to remind him, "Hey buddy, we're still a rock band!"


However, something changed during the session. Jim and I started making a very strong and clear thread of understanding. I think the beginning of this collaboration was so shocking because until now we were obsessed with controlling our own music and had a hard time giving it up.
We could not imagine that anyone with their boots and shoes would get into the whole process and disturb us.
After a while, we realized this and came to the conclusion that we had to adopt a whole new way of listening, understanding, and creating music in order to get a convincing, powerful effect as a result.


And I have the impression that this can be heard on Sleeping With Ghosts. To sum up, Bulletproof Cupid was our form of reaction to changes. We put ourselves up like some gang saying, That's us, that's who we are!"

Photo credit:  Iko Ouro-Preto

So, dear soulmates, did you enjoy Brian's answers?
🎬 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 - 𝑌𝑇 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑠.
https://bit.ly/3FwPBEI
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