[laughs] but I think the video and the song go really nice together, because the song is also about things that are being born like dreams or our children in a way and I think the flower is sort of a beautiful image of that. For me, I think good videos are the ones that don’t illustrate exactly what the song is about, but gives maybe a different energy, a different approach to the song. I really think that video is not really commenting what’s going on in the song, but it’s giving it another strength, maybe.
What can you tell me about the minimalist cover artwork of this record?
It was made by Daniel Higgs and it’s made by this technique that you may know: when you have a paper and you put some paint on it, and then you fold the paper and then you fold it back out, so that’s actually what the artwork is by chance. The figures play with your mind in a way that is not really explainable, but it’s like a signature in a way, I think it goes really well together. It allows you
to see what you want to see. I see something and maybe you see something different. That’s what the music is about too, it depends on who’s listening and it’s like different stories and I really like that. Some things are like too obvious and I really enjoy myself when it’s not so explainable or so direct.
What are your upcoming tour plans for this year?
The new record came out early this April and we are going to in a few weeks to the US to do a short tour. We’ll play in some summer festivals and then after this summer we are doing a new 12”, on a small British label. In the fall, we hope to tour Europe. So it’s gonna be a quite busy year, hopefully.
What can you tell me about the new 12” that you’re going to release?
It’s all brand new songs and it’s also like a new recording of an old song we made in 2005. We’ve always played that song and of course it had changed very much
during these years, so we decided to re-record it and to give it a new chance. [laughs]
Do you guys have other occupations/projects besides The Skull Defekts?
We all have jobs actually. Most of us play music in different live acts as well and we have also some new stuff in the works, and so on. I think everyone is quite busy, but in The Skull Defekts we sort of collect everything we do in this kind of common ground, which allows us to do different things.
Is there any new bands that you recommend me to listen to?
[Laughs] Well, it’s a very difficult question... There’s a band called Goat. They’re good friends of ours and it’s a really good band. That’s really new love in music I found. I really like what they do. “Dances In Dreams of the Known Unknown” is out now via Thrill Jockey
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