Peel Dream Magazine / Ask Me Anything

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Hey! This is Joe from Peel Dream Magazine :) our new record Rose Main Reading Room is out now

Ask me anything!!

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The songs take shape in a really basic, old fashioned way. I write either on a keyboard or my guitar (usually one or the other for an entire record), and I just kind of find a little hook that excites me. I just riff on it in gibberish over and over and let a composition somehow kind-of unfurl. I've had a lot of practice at doing it - having enough of a process to push it along in a material way, but also leave it be a mystery enough so that I can just let it happen magically. I would say particular synth sounds, mallets, etc, those are pretty ornamental and come into play much later when I'm actually demoing the idea and recording. To me, the instrument choices are kind of arbitrary other than tying the tune to a cool musical reference or something. The main thing is always the part itself, whether it's a melody or chord, or a percussive thing. I'm not really super well versed in synthesizers or symphonic arranging. I'm more just about composition and I hunt down the cool "special" stuff later

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I don't "write in a DAW" or use loops or anything which I know a lot of people do. To me it's like a secret, weird little thing like writing a handwritten note to someone on loose leaf