And we realized that, like, three months ago. It was a very interesting thing because with Tooth & Nail's schedule we were going to have to wait to release our record next January or February most likely, or it was this spring.
We really like working with both of them and we just figure, why not bring both teams to the table. Bad Christian is doing the whole vinyl side, and Tooth & Nail is kind of the main player doing all the digital and CDs. Spirit You All: The first Kings Kaleidoscope album came out on a confusing hybrid of Tooth & Nail and Bad Christian - did you take the same approach this time with Beyond Control?ĬG: Yeah, it's the same thing. So I think, sonically, it's a little more consistent and just a little bit more “pro” sounding, even though it's still a basement. With the the last one we had to travel around to various spaces, but this one we were able to dial it in more. My whole thing is I really like to produce music and arrange music and so in the same way as our last record, I got to engineer most of this one and record it all here at home, which is great. I've just got a basement here with all our instruments and whatnot.
Spirit You All: Becoming Who We Are was recorded on a MacBook using a lot of different microphones in a lot of different places, but I heard that you got a home studio for this one?ĬG: Yeah, it's not much. I guess that record kind of solidified to me that I'm not like, 'Oh man, I can't wait to listen to Kanye's next album', but more, wow, I really respect the fierceness and the boldness to do completely new ideas all the time and not worry about it. So there are things that I love about it and things that I'm not into. There are so many of those concepts that are completely futuristic and next-level, and the way he collaborates with stuff. that there will be another track added to it or he'll change the kick drum on something. I love the whole idea of a record that will never be done, I love the idea that he's going to be updating that record on streaming for the next 10 years or however many. Everything you expected of me, I'm going to do something different, and I'm going to do it really well.” So in that sense, I love it. I love that he is one of the biggest artists in the world, and he continuously messes with everybody and says, “I'm going to push on every expectation you have. I'm not inspired by him lyrically at all, but just as a culture mover, he's like Muhammad Ali to me. How did you feel about Life of Pablo?ĬG: I don't even necessarily appreciate Kanye for being a musician anymore. Spirit You All: You've said in the past that you're a big Kanye West fan. Spirit You All had a conversation via Skype with songwriter and frontman Chad Gardner about self-producing the new album, social media, Kanye West, and virtual reality: They return this week with their sophomore effort, Beyond Control, which retains that controlled-chaos musical aesthetic while taking the songs in a slightly rawer and more personal direction, with perceptive nods to themes like the loss of both wonder and danger in the modern world. Seattle's Kings Kaleidoscope broke out in a big way with their 2014 debut LP Becoming Who We Are, an album that put the band's plenitude of musicians to good use, creating worship on the scale of big collectives like Broken Social Scene that seeths with a mesmerizing tangle of horns, strings, and crisp, syncopated drums.
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