FIXTURE: Your new album is completely instrumental but it doesn’t feel like a drastic departure from your last CD, Old Blood, some of the same musical themes and tones are present here. It was recorded very differently though, live, no multitracking. How did the recording process and instrumental approach affect the songwriting? And could you explain the recording process briefly?
DIRTY BEACHES: At the time I was really into the idea of the live takes being irreversible, most of the tracks I used on the album were the first or second takes. I was obsessed with the idea of not looking back. In a sense, its very much like the process of accumulating experience. I was more interested in capturing certain moods, rather than constructing songs with vocals, so in that sense the writing was limited to a stripped down, bare ass minimal approach, which creates space and characterizes the sound. The sound becomes your leading man.
FIXTURE: The album is called Horror LP, I was wondering if you considered Horror to be fully fledged theme for the album or more of a starting point? If it is a theme, do you see it as a cinematic reference? The song titles seem to suggest scenes and vignettes.
DIRTY BEACHES: The whole album was an experience of horror. Like therapy.
I wanted to record it.
There were no particular references to a certain film, the album was to be billed as HORROR, and was designed to be like road music, something that you can pop into your car stereo when your driving on the road at night, or when your riding a train going somewhere far by yourself. I made up track titles after the completion of the album in order to give it some sense of narration. Which is a very film like approach. And it was fun doing it. So now its kind of like a road movie.
Horror LP will be available on the 30th of September. Preview some tracks (accompanied by great videos also by Dirty Beaches): In Dreams, Love is a fog, and Boxcar.
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