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got enough time
this indie band’s fourth album reflects
an idealized world hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com our
host Stephanie got to speak with metric
about fantasies both their album and
their desires
I’ve read about this thing that you guys
created called a campfire test I
wondering if you tell me a bit more
about it and how the fantasies record
fared on this test it’s kind of like a
litmus test if you will for like you
know testing if a songs is is working or
structurally sound yeah you know it’s
like the thing that happens with a lot
of music is there’s infinite
possibilities and recording studios and
pro tools and multi-tracks and a million
if instruments and kind of that all the
ads and things that you can do if you
can’t play a song on one instrument from
beginning to end then you may not be
getting the emotion across with that
song
I mean it’s not like that’s the only way
to make music you know it’s like there’s
tons of music that I listen to that I
love they could never be played like
that but it’s just one way of
approaching
we took a couple weeks to record live it
out and then you know almost a year and
a half for fantasies so I was wondering
how did this extended time period you
know help you guys wasn’t it more like
six months like we spent time writing
yeah but we also record like we were in
the studio like it took a long time and
and I know I was there and it was I
think the thing that was freeing about
that was that we didn’t care we didn’t
feel like our career was gonna like
slide down the drain although apparently
everybody else did which was really
interesting is like it’s so fun in
general being in this band and all the
things that people like say no no you
can’t do that oh you’ve missed the
window your record needs to come out
then it’s just like or or how about it
doesn’t how about we do it exactly when
it feels right for us and we’ve had so
many things like that particularly on
this record that we’ve just listened to
ourselves instead of getting confused by
other people who somehow feel like
entitled to tell you based on I don’t
know what like just what where your life
should go which is so weird to me in
music one of the studios you guys were
in was in bear creek I believe outside
of Seattle and where you guys are really
isolated in the woods so I was wondering
why did you guys decide to do that we’ve
been on tour touring live it out for two
years pretty much at that point and we
knew we were gonna take a really
substantial break at that moment and the
idea was to go there and essentially
plant the seed for what we would come
back to after a long break and so
there’s no better place than to plant a
seed in forest I guess nice eyes did you
know you were gonna say that it was
amazing you just ramped right up to it
like the whole time you read that was
your like punch line she was amazed
actually I want to know what are some of
your own personal fantasies oh I have
one camp counselors do you that was what
dan told me his face
this is my fantasy this life and what
we’ve created and what we’re doing and I
woke up in a very good mood today
thinking while I can’t believe I could
do this
you
got enough time
this indie band’s fourth album reflects
an idealized world hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com our
host Stephanie got to speak with metric
about fantasies both their album and
their desires
I’ve read about this thing that you guys
created called a campfire test I
wondering if you tell me a bit more
about it and how the fantasies record
fared on this test it’s kind of like a
litmus test if you will for like you
know testing if a songs is is working or
structurally sound yeah you know it’s
like the thing that happens with a lot
of music is there’s infinite
possibilities and recording studios and
pro tools and multi-tracks and a million
if instruments and kind of that all the
ads and things that you can do if you
can’t play a song on one instrument from
beginning to end then you may not be
getting the emotion across with that
song
I mean it’s not like that’s the only way
to make music you know it’s like there’s
tons of music that I listen to that I
love they could never be played like
that but it’s just one way of
approaching
we took a couple weeks to record live it
out and then you know almost a year and
a half for fantasies so I was wondering
how did this extended time period you
know help you guys wasn’t it more like
six months like we spent time writing
yeah but we also record like we were in
the studio like it took a long time and
and I know I was there and it was I
think the thing that was freeing about
that was that we didn’t care we didn’t
feel like our career was gonna like
slide down the drain although apparently
everybody else did which was really
interesting is like it’s so fun in
general being in this band and all the
things that people like say no no you
can’t do that oh you’ve missed the
window your record needs to come out
then it’s just like or or how about it
doesn’t how about we do it exactly when
it feels right for us and we’ve had so
many things like that particularly on
this record that we’ve just listened to
ourselves instead of getting confused by
other people who somehow feel like
entitled to tell you based on I don’t
know what like just what where your life
should go which is so weird to me in
music one of the studios you guys were
in was in bear creek I believe outside
of Seattle and where you guys are really
isolated in the woods so I was wondering
why did you guys decide to do that we’ve
been on tour touring live it out for two
years pretty much at that point and we
knew we were gonna take a really
substantial break at that moment and the
idea was to go there and essentially
plant the seed for what we would come
back to after a long break and so
there’s no better place than to plant a
seed in forest I guess nice eyes did you
know you were gonna say that it was
amazing you just ramped right up to it
like the whole time you read that was
your like punch line she was amazed
actually I want to know what are some of
your own personal fantasies oh I have
one camp counselors do you that was what
dan told me his face
this is my fantasy this life and what
we’ve created and what we’re doing and I
woke up in a very good mood today
thinking while I can’t believe I could
do this
you
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