![]() And it’s because of this that we have a deep pool to choose from, and one that I had heart-wrenching difficulty in narrowing down. More importantly, they’re all really, really good! One of the advantages of SEVENTEEN and their many members is that they can often mix and match their members and experiment with different music styles and genres without compromising their original sound. First of all, for SEVENTEEN’s relatively short career, they have a lot of tracks. I know, I know, what was I thinking?!Ĭarats (SEVENTEEN’s fandom) will understand how formidable this task is. Because 'Psychopomp' was so much about my grief and loss, it was almost like I couldn't write about that anymore.I thought it’d be nice to start 2019 by taking on a challenge, and the challenge I decided on was to choose 10 of SEVENTEEN’s B-side tracks to introduce. ![]() My emotions on 'Psychopomp' are very different from the ones they are on this album. “You're always cycling different feelings. “When you go through something like that, it's never closed,” she said. Given what she experienced her personal life in the last few years, Zauner said she doesn't know if “closure” is the right word to describe where she is now. ![]() I want to write a book that I would've liked to have read when I went through that.” When my mother passed away, I suddenly found myself so desperately want to connect with it in a way that I never had before. I really rejected that part of my identity for a very long time. “When you grow up in a largely white community as an Asian American, you kind of resent that part of yourself, because you so badly want to fit in when you're a teenager. “There's so much under the surface of that story, my experience of living with my mom, growing up half-Korean,” she said. “I think a lot of the songs were written about the experience of feeling really mechanical day to day and trying to use that as a means of working through trauma.”įor Zauner, the circumstances surrounding the recording of “Soft Sounds From Another Planet,” which draws on electropop, ambient, and folk influences, were different from the previous album. “When you think about a record, it's kind of like an archive of a period of time that you're experiencing, and it surrounds certain thoughts that are already on your mind,” she said. If the songs on “Psychopomp”' drew from Zauner's grief over her mother's passing, then the music on “Soft Sounds From Another Planet” is a work about healing and moving forward, inspired by space and science fiction. Now Japanese Breakfast returns with her latest record, the atmospheric and surrealistic “Soft Sounds From Another Planet,” which is scheduled for release on July 14. Zauner was further encouraged to get back into music after indie musician Mistki offered an invitation to tour with her. Eventually the record was released last year via the Maryland-based indie label Yellow K to critical acclaim, earning mentions in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and Consequence of Sound. Zauner mixed and later shopped “Psychopomp” to a few labels without any luck. “I think that a lot of Asian Americans are pushed to learn to how to play an instrument at an early age, and yet when we do something creative with it, it's kind of a shock and looked down on."
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |