features national scene my different vocal ranges. And then reading, and you know, listening to a lot of popular music. I taught myself how to do everything, really, because I’m a student at the end of the day, and at the beginning of the day. I’m studying everything. 11: I also obviously want to talk about Bone Music, your album that you released in February. D: Shout out to Neill von Tally, because that’s a fifty-fifty effort. 11: No doubt. And I've got some questions about him too, we’ll get there. But so the name “Bone Music” is a reference to how people would smuggle Western music into communist Russia, etched onto x-rays. But what interests me is that most of those songs aren't overly political, at least lyrically; they're just love songs. And I feel like your Bone Music is similar in that the songs are mostly about love and relationships too, and it’s through that lens and this sort of sonic atmosphere you create that you reach these complex social ideas. I was wondering if you could speak a bit about that decision and how you chose to work with that form. D: Well, the one thing that’s gonna make people relate
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at the end of the day has to be humanity, right? And what’s
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the one thing that links every human being, but love? And of
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course if we were going to make an album about a blue collar worker and their lifestyle, what is the most important part of their everyday life, but love? So we had to tackle that, the issues that they’re having with their partner, and the issues
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that they’re having with themselves in their relationship. 11: Just as an aside, the original Bone Music was a rudimentary form of vinyl–do you have plans to press the album up any time soon? D: It’s funny you should ask, because I have like five copies of the vinyl sitting on my dining room table. Yeah, they finally got packaged and put together, and we’re putting together a release date very soon. 11: On that note, when you’re listening to music, how do
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you do it? D: In headphones, on my cellular device, most of the time. 11: Where do you stand on the whole digital vs. physical debate? How do you see yourself navigating that divide, and how would you ideally release your music? D: In the future, I’d like to always release vinyl, as long as I... well, I’ll always be able to afford that, because my life is only gonna get better from here, how ‘bout that? [Laughs.] Vinyl is a necessity, but who am I to say that we shouldn’t focus on streaming, because clearly everybody is streaming everything. I don’t want CDs. Tapes are cool for the novelty of it.
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