“Unlike most of the songs on this album, where I came in with pretty fleshed-out demos of the songs, a lot of ‘Dopamine’ came together in the studio… The song started out with my attempt at a scratchy, Fela Kuti-esque rhythm guitar part, then Oliver (Hollingshead) and I jammed it out on the floor. Hanum (Yoon-Henderson), who played percussion on the album, laid down endless layers of congas, cowbell, woodblocks, shakers, etc. which became such a massive part of the song (and the whole record really).” -*Angus Watt*
“Unlike most of the songs on this album, where I came in with pretty fleshed-out demos of the songs, a lot of ‘Dopamine’ came together in the studio… The song started out with my attempt at a scratchy, Fela Kuti-esque rhythm guitar part, then Oliver (Hollingshead) and I jammed it out on the floor. Hanum (Yoon-Henderson), who played percussion on the album, laid down endless layers of congas, cowbell, woodblocks, shakers, etc. which became such a massive part of the song (and the whole record really).” -*Angus Watt*
“ I rarely overthink what I write. The only thing that matters to me is what’s in my mind at the moment I sit down to write lyrics for a specific song. The process is almost always the same: I listen to a dictaphone demo of the track and start with a phrase or a word that might have been sung, then build an idea around it.” – Erica Ashleson
“Experimentation, mixing with other genres is not uncommon in indie music (Yo la Tengo being a great example), which is already a really broad genre. I suppose we’re still going to try new things, to evolve as musicians but it will probably still sound indie.” – Guillaume Siracusa
“ I rarely overthink what I write. The only thing that matters to me is what’s in my mind at the moment I sit down to write lyrics for a specific song. The process is almost always the same: I listen to a dictaphone demo of the track and start with a phrase or a word that might have been sung, then build an idea around it.” – Erica Ashleson
“Experimentation, mixing with other genres is not uncommon in indie music (Yo la Tengo being a great example), which is already a really broad genre. I suppose we’re still going to try new things, to evolve as musicians but it will probably still sound indie.” – Guillaume Siracusa
Over their eighteen years as a band, Jim Putnam’s Los Angeles based collective Radar Brothers proved to be a model of consistency and melancholic, sun-baked comfort. Defying conventional, perpetual myths that artists must consciously reinvent themselves, a deep dive retrospective at the band’s working class trajectory reveals a singular path on the perennial edge of a larger, opportunistic breakthrough.
Over their eighteen years as a band, Jim Putnam’s Los Angeles based collective Radar Brothers proved to be a model of consistency and melancholic, sun-baked comfort. Defying conventional, perpetual myths that artists must consciously reinvent themselves, a deep dive retrospective at the band’s working class trajectory reveals a singular path on the perennial edge of a larger, opportunistic breakthrough.
