The last record [Heavier Things] was beats, pro tools, loops and those kinds of things that I liked bringing songs out of me. Then when it came time to tour it was like, "I can’t play Split Screen Sadness without a machine."
Heavier Things
The Paul Reddy Show
New Deep, how'd you make it?
How did I make New Deep? <SONG|New Deep>I recorded it as a demo in my studio first. Most of the songs from this record were recorded in my studio in my apartment. And it started out with this guitar part and this beat, and then a bassline, and it all really came together very fast. And I just remember tracking it in my studio and the song really being there already. I loved the verse, I loved the feel, I loved the B section. And so even the moment that I was playing it in my studio, I think it was a defined song.
Read more >Interview with My Stupid Mouth forum (2005)
Conducted by founder Richard Young
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Column in Esquire magazine
"The Resident Rock Star"
Am I the only one who finds this record creepy to make out to?
Excerpted from Column in Esquire magazine >
Instagram live: October 2017
From hotel while on tour in Brazil
I'm gonna tell you a story nobody knows about the making of Heavier Things, my second album. Does anybody remember a Gameboy Advance game called WarioWare? Does anybody know WarioWare? WarioWare was a game that was all mini-games. So WarioWare comes out, and Jamie Muhoberac, great keyboard player who was on Heavier Things, introduces me to WarioWare one night at a restaurant. And it blew my mind. The mini-games don't explain what the rules are. Part of the game is figuring out what the objective of the game is. I made the entirety of Heavier Things, or at least the entirety of the second half of making Heavier Things, playing WarioWare. I listened back to every possible moment that I wasn't recording, playing WarioWare. And that's one hell of a game that I wish they would bring back.
Excerpted from Instagram live: October 2017 >