‘Screws’ album released, it felt like a very introspective album, perfect for Christmas. Did you feel introspective when you were making it? Nils: very much so, it was two weeks of me being at home and I had to cancel all of my schedule as I had broken my finger. It was a little to quiet and a little too slow for me, so even thought the doctor had suggested something different I still played at the piano with my nine remaining fingers. I wanted to make nine songs with those nine fingers so I played for maybe thirty minutes a day. I am proud of the record as it is so slow and reduced, but it still manages to transport an atmosphere that i’ve never managed to achieve in any of my other records. Deluxe: I told a lot of my customers about your broke thumb, and we’ve had loads of request from people for more from “the guy with the broken
Nils: I still love the new Gonzales record, he’s a good guy. I also like the Tame Impala record which came out last year, I like the Nils: Thats okay! It’s quite a hilarious story. production a lot. Then there is a lot of classical music I am catching up on, some I was worried that it could end up sounding too much like a marketing gimmick when you harpsichord pieces. I am a big Jazz collector, a talk too much about it, but this was the whole lot of the music I am buying I suppose is from story and the whole point of the album. I had the past. I think that it can be a good thing to tell people as I had to cancel shows and the to not always look too much to the recent stuff because it’s nice to find inspiration in reaction was pretty massive. I felt that as places that are forgotten or lost. Don’t just so many people had ‘felt’ with me, I thought that the most encouraging news I could spread copy people ideas. For example, James Blake comes out with a great record that I actually was some new music coming out it it. really enjoyed, but all of a sudden there are a million bands all sounding like James Blake. Deluxe: Tonight you’re playing with So I try to not go there. all ten fingers? thumb”... are you okay with this new moniker?
Nils: Yes, exactly. Like nothing has ever happened. Deluxe: Looking back at your year, which records have you really been into?
Deluxe: Nils, we don’t think anyone else sounds too much like you at the moment. Nils: Thank you!