This Will Destroy You
I finally had a chance to catch up with TWDY at the Berlin show, images from the show here, interview with Jeremy here:
What inspires This Will Destroy You to continue creating music?
What inspires us to make music… mostly other music and a ,lot of films actually, a lot of our influnces kind of come from different films from our favourite directors and this style of music is kinda [...] cinematic aspects of it definately through a few films
Your last release, This Will Destroy You, was a great success, what’s next?
Next is somtheing a little completely different, were going in a new direction as far as how we write, weve been working non stop, working our asses off, recording all the time, multiple layers, adding more instruments and getting a lot more sample based, more electronic, lot more of a trance feel, not like a dancey trance feel, but kinf of, you know, very erm, I guess you could call it a drug inspired album.
when can we expect a new release?
Hopefully by spring of 2010, but at the latest summer
Post Rock generates creative (and often lengthy) band and track names, how does This Will Destroy You come up with these?
That’d be a great question for Chris who is not around, he comes up with the track names so its initially, he grabs a lot of inpsiration sort of imagery he gets for certain songs. for example a three legged workhorse doesnt really mean much, we like the image that pops up in your head when that track comes up, and the other song titles like Villa Del Refugio and Burial on the Presidio Banks are from Texas… so we just kinda draw from those places and we have pulled a few off of some films as well
How does This Will Destroy You decide which tracks will be on a release? testing them at gigs, or a different method?
The past albums we recorded we booked the studio time before we finished writing so we kinda rushed a lot of it, and for the most part we self titled everything that we wrote pretty much stayed on the album. We got the first cut off of the album and we went back in and redid 2 songs, and with Young Mountain we cut 2 tracks. So the idea for the next album is to write about 20 songs and pick the best out of all of them.
Will the remaining ones, that dont get picked, be available for the fans?
Yeah, we just started up our own record label, so we’ll be putting out some 7 and 10 so people will be able to hear everything that we’ve been writing.
What have you been listening to recently that you would recommend to your fan base?
The new Animal Collective album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, the best album I’ve heard this year yet. Still listening to a lot Tim Hecker and Stars of the Lid, been listening to the new Sigur Ros album a little but, but the most part its been a lot of Animal Collective and Marnie Stern
The obligatory political question: Can politics (whichever side of the road) solve global social problems? Discuss
Not at all. When it comes to political, religious, spirititual issues, we all have, every member in the band thinks a little differently, but as far as I go I think the world is doomed and there’s nothing we can do to save it, so enjoy yourself while you’re here, but the planet is going to be destroyed by…
intergalactic forces?
…that would be amazing, hopefully, but I think it’ll be by our own mistakes. Especially on the United States part.
The obligatory digital media question: We all know that digital downloads (legal or not) are changing the music business, would you say this is a challenge or an opportunity, and why?
It’s great. We have no problem with people pirating our albums, you know, thats pretty much how it started, how we got people to come out to our shows I mean if it wasnt for that it would have been a lot harder to get to where we are now, and get that continual growth and you know, itunes and stuff like that helps, but it doesnt bother us you know, the fact that our albums are ripped
