13. @Mind Palace Music
This is also in the untouchable world for me. I heard it for the first time, mind blown. What is this? Which is phenomenal, because we live in a creative world which is all pretty retrospective. When I was at art school, we talked about the era that we’re in a lot, where it’s so impossible to make work that it isn’t just something from the past manipulated. We can only make from our experiences, so how do you make something new? Have we run out of new things to make? Is technology the only new thing that we can make?
These guys sound like something from the future, but made with tools from the past. I know that I love this record, but sometimes I second guess it, because when something is so fresh sounding, are you attracted to the freshness or the record? And for me, it’s both for this one. It really struck a specific niche chord of all the things that I love. It has similar sounds to “Blue” Gene Tyranny, it’s in that world. But also not niche, because there’s so much Beach Boys in there.
I’m so excited because we’re going to be playing with them in America, and I’ve never seen them before, and I wanted to tour with them when we went over there, and they weren’t free, I don’t think. And my boyfriend saw them a couple years ago, and I was so jealous I couldn’t be there. But now we’re going to play with them in New York, but it’ll be weird when we meet, because I’m a really big fan. I think it was my boyfriend that got me into them. Unfortunately, hate to say this, but Spotify occasionally comes through, they accidentally send you stuff you might like, and @ had come up in some playlists. That’s how the world works now, and it’s not a shame if @ arrives at your doorstep. But yeah, then my boyfriend really got into the record, and when you’re in a relationship, that’s often how you come to really know things, because they’re in your peripheral all the time, you’re hearing it through a speaker in another room. So he made me really give it a chance, and I’m very grateful for that. He gave me that gift.
