Si vous n'avez pas l'habitude de voir Young Fathers en interview, c'est normal : le trio écossais déteste l'exercice. Mais pour Jack, le trio a accepté de s'asseoir sur un vieux canapé de Brighton pour vous raconter l'histoire de son nouvel album « Heavy Heavy ». Un disque créé parfois dans la souffrance avec une règle simple : capter le moment présent, quoi qu'il en coûte.
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00:00 "Hi, we're Young Fathers and we're in Brighton doing a track by track for our new album Heavy Heavy for Jack."
00:07 "Usually the way we like to make songs is we don't like a lot of fluff and we don't like a lot of extra hits.
00:27 We like to just be brutal and cut everything out and edit things right down.
00:32 But Rice, just straight in, nae fucking about, just right there, down on the farm, we're Young Fathers."
00:43 "You know there's key words like rice and rice brings people together, what Graham was saying.
00:48 Community, there's a communal aspect, togetherness, similar lyrics are you're on your way, you're on your way somewhere, towards something."
00:56 "A fresh start, you know, and it's an opening track so there's all these little lines in there that you can, that adds value and lets you think about things and allows you to make up your own mind I think.
01:10 It's in that vein."
01:23 "The way we recorded it was so much slower. When we first recorded it the song was really a lot slower.
01:31 The way we record is like you do a song a day and you don't listen to it until months later."
01:39 "We'll leave it for a while, weeks, months and then when you go back to it you get a better perspective of what the song is
01:46 and you get an opportunity to hear it like how you would hear it, how the audience is going to hear it and listen to it more quickly
01:55 and just capture that moment and then we move on, that's the best way I think."
02:06 "When we first kind of go in the studio that day I just remember that it was the drum machine and the bassline just do, do, do for ages and ages and ages.
02:16 But I like the way that it went from the intro chorus to just kind of going straight into the verse like he's talking to you personally."
02:25 "It's like a sermon or something, yeah."
02:28 "You scream, but your soul, your soul hates time."
02:37 "I've always been a believer that when you go to a gig or a show, it's round about the third or fourth song when you realise you're at a gig
02:46 and you're sort of cognizant of what's going on, you know. So it's a perfect time for that to come out
02:53 but also just the sounds that we use, it feels like it's more, it's more timeless.
03:00 I think we're always going to opt for the version that's timeless because we want to make music that's timeless
03:05 and we want to make albums, it's something that's iconic and I think you could always go back to that song,
03:11 it doesn't matter what era it's going to sound, it's going to sound great, it's going to sound beautiful, it's going to sound fragile,
03:16 it's going to sound a whole bunch of stuff and I think that the emotion is, the emotion in the voice, the emotion in the music and everything like that
03:22 is very cohesive so it's a powerful thing."
03:43 "It felt like the right way to kind of come back because for us that song was like another notch on our belt
03:52 where we had felt like we had done another song that we hadn't really done before.
03:59 It was kind of like a gentle, gentle reintroduction but still kind of intense, you know,
04:08 we'd been on the road for ten years and been recording albums in between going on the road
04:14 and so like that song kind of encapsulates that space."
04:18 "We made a point on this album of like we wouldn't start the song until the three of us were in a room together
04:33 so no music was made, no lyrics were, well lyrics were there but it was kind of that thing of based on what can happen in the moment,
04:44 in the spontaneity and I think that's why this record sounds like the way it is, it's based on reactions,
04:52 it's based on those kind of gut instincts that you have when you first hear something and you react to it and you try and capture it.
05:01 For us it's just a bit capturing, you know, it's essential that everything is set up so there's no time wasted,
05:09 there's no like 'oh let's get the headphones on and get the mix right and set up and turn the lights on' and all that,
05:15 it's none of that, it's more about just capturing the moment.
05:19 I mean a lot of this was done wearing headphones and the speakers on and just microphones in the room like how we play live
05:27 and that's another thing I think helps you sing better, it helps you get more kind of inside the music in a way.
05:37 It's one of those songs that I feel like encapsulates a genuine feeling of all the intricacies that we possess in ourselves
05:54 but also having the balance between being angry and still being able to show gratitude and that's kind of the main lyric or the most prominent lyric in that song.
06:06 There isn't really a bad day in the studio, there isn't really a day when you shouldn't be recording because you don't feel up to it
06:16 or you don't feel inspired or you don't feel like whatever, so it's like, because what the guys were saying, that song came from being uninspired.
06:34 Synchroswim is like, there's a few records on this album that are kind of based around the rhythmic drive in that sense and fast and you know, intentionally so
06:47 but in order to have dynamic, for us we've always been aware that anything can flatline.
06:53 So you might have the biggest, bassiest kick drum in your song and it might be the most impressive fucking thing that you've ever heard
07:05 but five minutes after, you're bored with that and it could be fantastic in the moment but anything can get boring.
07:12 So for us it's always like, dynamic is the key thing in order for it to feel even faster.
07:22 [Music]
07:30 The kind of pop song that we like to make is like the sweet and the tough and…
07:35 Fucked up pop song.
07:36 Yeah, yeah, the drum machine especially in that is the thing that makes it tough and hard.
07:43 You get songs like Holy Moly because it's kind of what we've always been, a band that loves hooks and the sweet things but also the contrast of it.
07:56 To call the album Heavy Heavy, I think for me personally, I think Holy Moly is like the epitome of the weight.
08:05 [Music]
08:17 If there was a song that's a young father's song, it's Beyoncé.
08:22 I think just in general, the record being out, it just feels like a relief to be honest.
08:28 It's a relief in the sense that we've made something now, it's like a solid piece of work and it's tangible.
08:35 So it only becomes cemented when it's released and it's allowed to grow legs and arms like a newborn.
08:42 You know, once we're kind of proud of it and stand behind it, then everything else is just a bonus.
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