That’s the sound of Chicago to me.Ĭhicago. This record is the sound of walking home late at night through Chicago in the middle of winter and being half-creeped out, scared someone’s going to punch you in the back of the head, and half in the most tranquil state you’ve been in all day, enjoying the quiet and this faint wind, and buses going by on all-night routes. And landlords knocking on doors to get rent that people don’t have. It’s the sound of strangers dodging one another. Everybody who talks to you on the street’s always got something they’re coming at you with. That’s the sound I hear, all the time, ringing in my ears. Chicago sounds like a train constantly coming towards you but never arriving. And I think I succeeded in that way - it’s got some weird instrumentation on there, and some surreal far-out words.Īnd it’s more Chicago-y sounding. I was always trying to make something like this I guess, trying to catch up with my imagination. I just wanted to make something weird and far-out that came from the heart finally. I didn’t want to be jammy acoustic guy anymore. I wanted to make something deep-fried and more me-sounding. I was under a lot of stress because I was trying to make an anti-folk record and I was having trouble doing it. I went in expecting to make a fucking masterpiece, but I kept hitting a brick wall. I went in with over-confidence, I went in there like ‘Yeah, I’m ready to go!’ but I was just kind of bullshitting. It took a year, and there were a lot of times I thought it was going nowhere, a lot of botched sessions.
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