5. Model 500No UFOs
Bill Skibbe, who I co-produced Hinterland and Former Things with, is really plugged into funk and during our sessions we would occasionally just go off on a tangent: he’d say, ‘Google this’ and we’d go down a YouTube rabbit warren of just finding really cool funk music that I’d never heard of before. Out in Michigan, he’s got access to a lot of old, defunct studios too. When I was last there, making Hinterland, he’d sourced a mixing desk used by Parliament, a synth used by Cybotron… the’s just amazing to work with.
The beats on this album really drew me in, as did the cool electro synths which run throughout the record. I think all the drum machines and synths, they’re all driving through my album and I think Model 500 were a big influence with all their really propulsive baselines and cool beats. I just instinctively knew that I wanted a sound like this to be the sonic scaffolding of my album.
