You Are Not Alone is Semisonic just the way you hoped Personally, I liked that first playback a lot, and I Then after that, it was just the usual artistic exploration andĪrguments and trying stuff. But if you have three instruments andĮverybody is just settled down and not really giving a shit about impressingĪnybody, it all sounds fuller and more satisfying. “It’s almost like with three instruments, when you’re trying When you settle down and you play, a weird kind of magic happens.” And then the second day, we just kind of settled down. “We sped up and slowed down and we did some things that you might do if you “The time was wavering on the first day,” Wilson admits. There was a little hiccup as the band felt some jitters upon I just wanted to give permission to all three of us to just do I feel like I’m in that world now with what I doĬollaboratively. And I felt really confident about that,īecause I am in the swim of current, modern music all the time. We’re going to sound like ourselves and we are going to put zero attention orĮffort into updating what we do. Usually have some sort of manifesto when I do sessions, like, ‘Hey, this is theīig mission.’ One of the big missions for me and the guys this time around was
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The band might have some self-consciousness about trying to update our sound. There might be a couple of challenges,” Wilson muses. They left it exactly as it was.’”īefore the recording process began, the trio firstĮstablished what they were trying to accomplish. I turned the light on and it was the Semisonic Bedroom,” Wilson laughs.
“It’s like I found this room in the mansion of my brain and I had just enough confidence then to try it a bunch of times after They were loud Paul Simon songs, which is what Semisonic hasĪlways been. Semisonic songs than Liam Gallagher songs,” he remembers. Gallagher, I kind of noticed, to be honest, that they sounded more like Songwriter-for-hire as well as doing solo work, came when he was trying to Impressive career since the band stopped recording out of being a Oddly enough, the breakthrough for Wilson, who has built an
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When I thought maybe my body just can’t remember how to be the guy who was in So we can’t do the bandĪnymore.’ It was such a clean, deeply honest way to think about it. Just don’t remember how to be that guy anymore. “I found it very moving when he would say, ‘I “I used to be very touched by things that Robert Plant would say about It justĪt times, Wilson wondered if new Semisonic music might never IĬouldn’t just do a bunch of OK Semisonic songs and put out a record. My Number” and “Act Naturally,” I just felt like they had to be really good. Because of “Closing Time” and “Secret Smile” and “She’s Got
Some of them sounded like Semisonic, but they That I was going to write songs for the band,” Wilson explains. Time, I had in the back of my mind, and sometimes in the front, this thought Three albums, released from 1995 to 2001, that held them back. Of Wilson, bassist John Munson and drummer Jacob Schlicter, had set with their In actuality, it was the standard that Semisonic, comprised We would always find some way to hang, because we like each other. Like we’d play a benefit or we’d do a political fundraiser or something like “When we stopped touring, every year we’d cook up some way to get together, Of being on the road and travel, which can make anybody squabble a little bit,” “We’ve always basically gotten along, besides the frictions Songwriter about Semisonic’s new EP You Are Not Alone, out thisįriday, there was no great animosity driving the hiatus. Guitarist, lead singer and chief songwriter Dan Wilson, who spoke to American Hasn’t released any music since 2001, stories about band infighting, studioīlowups and the like, you’re likely to be disappointed. If you’re looking for sordid details into why Semisonic
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