So the album didn’t live up to expectations in terms of its reception?

So the album didn’t live up to expectations in terms of its reception?

“I don’t know, I feel like the people that did hear it liked it a lot, but I think I was just hoping to be in a slightly better position than I am by the end of this album cycle. I’ve been making music and playing shows for ten years now, and you do want to see some progress, but it’s hard when you’re playing the same towns that you’ve toured before, but to less people. You start to think “Well, what am I doing wrong? ”

Tell me about Come All Sufferers then, where did the inspiration come from?

“I made the album over a two-year period. I would have liked to have spent more time making the album in those two years but misfortune often intervened – there were various events that occurred which were significant and did make their way onto the album. I spent a lot of time just ruminating on darkness. However, I don’t think it’s a very dark album. There’s a lot more comedy than the first one, or at least it’s a lot more obvious now that you’re allowed to laugh at these things. ”

You’ve also really developed your sound since the first album; this one explores so many different genres.

“Yeah, I’ve always been really interested in genre hopping. For me, what’s really interesting about pop music is when you can take two disparate musical ideas and force them together, and then in that collision and chaos is where some of the best music’s made, and where you can find a strange sort of conflict between musical ideologies and I find that really exciting. I also made this album’s creation a lot more about the recording process, so instead of doing it in a studio – and because I couldn’t afford one – I was able to produce it myself in different people’s bedrooms. I could use the original first takes of vocal tracks and make a song much more raw and honest – half the challenge sometimes is to not mess about with a song too much and to really keep it alive. ”

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