A very nice chat where he told how it was the recording process of "𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐", what keeps him and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 together besides music and if they will come back to 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆. Have a good time reading! 😊
💜 Much love & take care 💜
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𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥, 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 "𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐆𝐨", 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬.
𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 . 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 "𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑀𝑒 𝐺𝑜", 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 (𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦) 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. 𝘈𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 30-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵. 𝘈𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 2022 "𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑀𝑒 𝐺𝑜" 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥.
💎𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝟏𝟎 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎?
🎙️I don't think it's necessarily a goal of ours to summarize our lives, it's not about writing a diary but it's more like an expression of where we are right now in our lives. It's been quite a while since the last album, but what happened was we toured for a few years, then we kind of had a retrospective of a few years and we felt like we needed to take a step back from all the old stuff, because when you stop and think, you know you're coming face to face with your past. When we carried all our famous songs on tour for almost three years we started to feel like our lives were disconnected from them and not that we look down on them, not in any way, but as musicians we needed to move on. So when we made this record it was more of a way of writing ourselves and, in a way, we wanted to keep ourselves excited and approach it in a slightly different way than we had done for previous records, to keep things fresh and keep us from getting bored. In essence, that was the beginning of this record that we tried to approach it from a different angle, and what we did was to reverse the process. So, instead of ending up with a cover,the title of the album or the names of the songs, it was there where we started this time and then worked backwards. For me personally, this album wasn't really about summing up what happened in the last 10 years, it was more a case of finding my confidence to be back in the band and finding the reason why I wanted to keep making music. So I use this album as a kind of musical therapy, in a way, because music is a form of communication, it's a way to connect with another human being, to connect with a listener. That's what this album is about, finding the reason why I still wanted to do this.
💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏? 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅?
🎙️By no means, we were the first band to wear makeup nor the first to express ourselves through what we wore and how we presented ourselves (laughs). There were many artists who did it before us, but maybe in the mid-nineties, when we started doing it, there weren't many bands that were known for doing it, because there wasn't really a representative scene.
But times change and absolutely now there is more visibility for different genders and for different ways of presenting. There's also more visibility in kind of sexual identity and that's very positive. I'm not sure if it's moving on a large scale, but the visibility has definitely increased.
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💎𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰'𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔.
🎙️We are just musicians, a couple of guys in a band who like to play guitars and write songs. We're not here to try to bring a message, we're just expressing our truth and the way we experience life. But we definitely don't look away from the fact that there may be a lot of people who listen to our music and find strength in it. If we are doing that, we have to stay true to who we are and continue to help whoever is listening to us.
💎𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅?
🎙️Over the years one must be clear that it's easy to get stuck in certain ways of working. It's easy to fall into old habits because we are creatures of habit. So for us it was important to shake that up on this record and reverse the process. For the first time it was just Brian and I in the studio, we didn't have a drummer, so instead of seeing that as an obstacle we saw it as an opportunity and said <<fuck it, let's do everything with a drum machine>>, and it didn't end up being an album with just a drum machine. There's a song, yes, but we changed everything, we had the mentality of, instead of plugging things in the right way, doing it wrong and putting the guitar with the pedal backwards and stuff like that (laughs). Using different techniques and approaches that you already know, let you know how mistakes happen and sometimes they can be a beautiful thing. We like that things don't sound exactly the way they're supposed to, so on this record we leave everything, from scratches to mistakes. And it felt really good.
💎𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?
🎙️The only constant in life is change and that applies to us as humans and everything around us. So certainly if you look at a picture of us from 25 years ago, it was a different world. Not only were we much younger versions of ourselves (laughs) but we were also very confident and felt that everything we did was amazing. We had all the energy in the world and well, it felt like we could eat the world, but we're not like that anymore. I mean, it's like a disconnect with the past because going out again and release an album is like coming out of a cocoon of the last two years. It's definitely a challenge and it will be incredible. Sometimes I think too much and I have a tendency to imagine disasters that I only create in my head, but they feel very real and I have to stop and say <<enough>>. The enemy of thought is action and sometimes you just have to do something, and that's what we're doing now. We're going to turn that fear off, release the record and go on tour like we did a few years ago.
💎𝑨 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?
🎙️It was a quote from when we had just finished our anniversary tour. We had been going around the world for three years playing old songs and, as I said before, it was like we were starting to feel disconnected from those songs and we said <<to hell with it>>. We wanted to make a completely dissonant, experimental sound, and when I came back into the studio three years ago, we really didn't have a clear idea of what we wanted to do, so we had to take a break. I couldn't control where we wanted to go and that's because we react to our music and songwriting in an emotional way, so if it feels good, and I look at Brian and he looks at me, that's good. From there we start.
💎𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅. 𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔?
🎙️One of my favorite bands of all time is Depeche Mode and they are not a guitar band at all. And well, we are both children of the eighties and grew up with very experimental pop songs like those of David Bowie or Kate Bush. So what happened for this record is that we really wanted to celebrate the synthesizer and keyboard sound. All the songs have synthesizers and sometimes they overlay the guitars, other times they lead them or are atmospheric. Undoubtedly, the guitars are always going to be there, it's part of our DNA, but we had a lot of fun exploring all these things.
💎𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒑𝒉𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒆 (<<𝑮𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒙 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 / 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆>>), 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?
🎙️We've never tried to tell the listener what to think or what to feel, and right now (mid-March) we're in the process of releasing these songs because pretty soon they're not going to be ours and whatever we express in them doesn't necessarily equate to how a listener will interpret them. I mean, they will live their own experience and story through them and that's key for us. The song "Fix yourself," for example, I can tell you how I interpret it because Brian is the main writer of the lyrics and sometimes I live my own stories with the songs (laughs), but I relate completely to the lyrics. It's understanding that you can't change another person and sometimes, before throwing the stone, take a space, look at yourself first and start from there. I think there is a bit of anger, but the message is simply <<take it, look at yourself and think if you need a more peaceful life>>. Maybe, you can smile more or things like that. Smiling relaxes you and joking is the best medicine, especially because laughter is contagious (laughs).
💎𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆, 𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 '𝑻𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆' 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 '𝑺𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒆' 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓. 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?
🎙️We write from where we are now in our lives and all those issues you just mentioned of course are there because they are around us. For me, one of the overriding issues is that we are living with this technology revolution. A computer used to be the size of a garage or even a house, but now your smartphone can do everything and more, and that evolution happened just in 50 years. If you look at the history of the earth and of humanity, that's nothing. So it's really amazing the exponential rate of how technology has been advancing and there are many aspects that are amazing, while others not so much. I mean, technology and its advances have helped and enriched our lives and it's something we wanted to incorporate into the album because it's fun and it makes life easier, but all of this is very powerful and we have to take into account the negative aspects. As a society we don't really know the high price we have paid for everything that's happening, nor do we know where it's taking us. What is the price we have to pay? Who benefits from it? Those are some of the issues that we wanted to address and I think we're being... I don't know, since I studied marketing at university I think it's naive of us to think that they're selling us something that's only going to enrich our lives.
💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒖𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒕?
🎙️Brian is one of the people who knows the most about me, there are even people who are supposed to be closer to me and should know me better, but I guess our relationship is a bit like a marriage, of course without sex (laughs). With Brian we've been together for almost 30 years and that's quite a long time if you think about it.
💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆?
🎙️I sincerely hope that people can enjoy this album and make it their own. We are really grateful that we can still be doing this and that people still want to listen to our music. That's something very important to us and over the years we've been shown that it's amazing what we have, our fans, and people's willingness to listen to us and come to our shows, and that's wonderful.
💎𝑰𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔. 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚?
🎙️Well, since you say so, I'll take the space to mention one of the drummers on this album, Pietro Garrone.
He's a member of a band called Husky Loops and it's made up of an amazing trio of Italian guys who live in London. A few years ago they supported us on a tour and we loved Pietro's drumming, so we asked him to come and play for this record on some tracks, so in a way we'd like to work with him again because it was really lovely.
💎𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆.
🎙️There's nothing clear yet, but I would love to be able to come back. For now we have a couple of shows scheduled over here (UK) and I hope that in the future there will be an opportunity to come back. In the last few years we have been so used to being disappointed and that the plans you have can't be fulfilled, that now we just hope that these concerts can take place. And well, I don't have to tell you because you know, but we have an incredible relationship with Chile and since the first time we went we love to come back, so I hope we can make it happen.✪
🔹𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝑳. 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚
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🎙️We are just musicians, a couple of guys in a band who like to play guitars and write songs. We're not here to try to bring a message, we're just expressing our truth and the way we experience life. But we definitely don't look away from the fact that there may be a lot of people who listen to our music and find strength in it. If we are doing that, we have to stay true to who we are and continue to help whoever is listening to us.
💎𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅?
🎙️Over the years one must be clear that it's easy to get stuck in certain ways of working. It's easy to fall into old habits because we are creatures of habit. So for us it was important to shake that up on this record and reverse the process. For the first time it was just Brian and I in the studio, we didn't have a drummer, so instead of seeing that as an obstacle we saw it as an opportunity and said <<fuck it, let's do everything with a drum machine>>, and it didn't end up being an album with just a drum machine. There's a song, yes, but we changed everything, we had the mentality of, instead of plugging things in the right way, doing it wrong and putting the guitar with the pedal backwards and stuff like that (laughs). Using different techniques and approaches that you already know, let you know how mistakes happen and sometimes they can be a beautiful thing. We like that things don't sound exactly the way they're supposed to, so on this record we leave everything, from scratches to mistakes. And it felt really good.
💎𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?
🎙️The only constant in life is change and that applies to us as humans and everything around us. So certainly if you look at a picture of us from 25 years ago, it was a different world. Not only were we much younger versions of ourselves (laughs) but we were also very confident and felt that everything we did was amazing. We had all the energy in the world and well, it felt like we could eat the world, but we're not like that anymore. I mean, it's like a disconnect with the past because going out again and release an album is like coming out of a cocoon of the last two years. It's definitely a challenge and it will be incredible. Sometimes I think too much and I have a tendency to imagine disasters that I only create in my head, but they feel very real and I have to stop and say <<enough>>. The enemy of thought is action and sometimes you just have to do something, and that's what we're doing now. We're going to turn that fear off, release the record and go on tour like we did a few years ago.
💎𝑨 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅?
🎙️It was a quote from when we had just finished our anniversary tour. We had been going around the world for three years playing old songs and, as I said before, it was like we were starting to feel disconnected from those songs and we said <<to hell with it>>. We wanted to make a completely dissonant, experimental sound, and when I came back into the studio three years ago, we really didn't have a clear idea of what we wanted to do, so we had to take a break. I couldn't control where we wanted to go and that's because we react to our music and songwriting in an emotional way, so if it feels good, and I look at Brian and he looks at me, that's good. From there we start.
💎𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅. 𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔?
🎙️One of my favorite bands of all time is Depeche Mode and they are not a guitar band at all. And well, we are both children of the eighties and grew up with very experimental pop songs like those of David Bowie or Kate Bush. So what happened for this record is that we really wanted to celebrate the synthesizer and keyboard sound. All the songs have synthesizers and sometimes they overlay the guitars, other times they lead them or are atmospheric. Undoubtedly, the guitars are always going to be there, it's part of our DNA, but we had a lot of fun exploring all these things.
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🎙️We've never tried to tell the listener what to think or what to feel, and right now (mid-March) we're in the process of releasing these songs because pretty soon they're not going to be ours and whatever we express in them doesn't necessarily equate to how a listener will interpret them. I mean, they will live their own experience and story through them and that's key for us. The song "Fix yourself," for example, I can tell you how I interpret it because Brian is the main writer of the lyrics and sometimes I live my own stories with the songs (laughs), but I relate completely to the lyrics. It's understanding that you can't change another person and sometimes, before throwing the stone, take a space, look at yourself first and start from there. I think there is a bit of anger, but the message is simply <<take it, look at yourself and think if you need a more peaceful life>>. Maybe, you can smile more or things like that. Smiling relaxes you and joking is the best medicine, especially because laughter is contagious (laughs).
💎𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆, 𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 '𝑻𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆' 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 '𝑺𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒆' 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓. 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?
🎙️We write from where we are now in our lives and all those issues you just mentioned of course are there because they are around us. For me, one of the overriding issues is that we are living with this technology revolution. A computer used to be the size of a garage or even a house, but now your smartphone can do everything and more, and that evolution happened just in 50 years. If you look at the history of the earth and of humanity, that's nothing. So it's really amazing the exponential rate of how technology has been advancing and there are many aspects that are amazing, while others not so much. I mean, technology and its advances have helped and enriched our lives and it's something we wanted to incorporate into the album because it's fun and it makes life easier, but all of this is very powerful and we have to take into account the negative aspects. As a society we don't really know the high price we have paid for everything that's happening, nor do we know where it's taking us. What is the price we have to pay? Who benefits from it? Those are some of the issues that we wanted to address and I think we're being... I don't know, since I studied marketing at university I think it's naive of us to think that they're selling us something that's only going to enrich our lives.
💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒖𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒕?
🎙️Brian is one of the people who knows the most about me, there are even people who are supposed to be closer to me and should know me better, but I guess our relationship is a bit like a marriage, of course without sex (laughs). With Brian we've been together for almost 30 years and that's quite a long time if you think about it.
💎𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆?
🎙️I sincerely hope that people can enjoy this album and make it their own. We are really grateful that we can still be doing this and that people still want to listen to our music. That's something very important to us and over the years we've been shown that it's amazing what we have, our fans, and people's willingness to listen to us and come to our shows, and that's wonderful.
💎𝑰𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔. 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚?
🎙️Well, since you say so, I'll take the space to mention one of the drummers on this album, Pietro Garrone.
He's a member of a band called Husky Loops and it's made up of an amazing trio of Italian guys who live in London. A few years ago they supported us on a tour and we loved Pietro's drumming, so we asked him to come and play for this record on some tracks, so in a way we'd like to work with him again because it was really lovely.
💎𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆.
🎙️There's nothing clear yet, but I would love to be able to come back. For now we have a couple of shows scheduled over here (UK) and I hope that in the future there will be an opportunity to come back. In the last few years we have been so used to being disappointed and that the plans you have can't be fulfilled, that now we just hope that these concerts can take place. And well, I don't have to tell you because you know, but we have an incredible relationship with Chile and since the first time we went we love to come back, so I hope we can make it happen.✪
🔹𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒅𝒆 𝑳. 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒂𝒚
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