John Moreland on why he ditched guitars for drum machines on his mesmerizing new album ‘LP5’
recently spoke with Moreland about his new album, the danger in reading into his personal life from his songs, his label fallout, and Ichiro Suzuki. There were a lot of false starts. There was a time when we thought, after I did, that I should get a band and rock band thing. I knew I was ready to change shit up a little. But then I realized that wasn’t what I really wanted to be doing. I wasn’t writing a ton.
Yeah. Am I just going to keep redoing this? Or, even worse, feel like I have to top it every time? It was a process of unlearning all that, and a lot of that has to do with ego and being kind of new in my career. As far as actually doing this for a job, and having people know who I am, it’s only been maybe five years. I’m still figuring out what I’m doing., there was sort of this narrative of, “John Moreland used to be sad. But then he got married, and now he’s happy.
And yet commodifying one’s personal life, on social media or in your art, is increasingly something an artist is expected to do. The only disappointment I had when listening to your record was realizing that the song “Ichiro” was an instrumental and not an explicit tribute to the right-fielder.
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