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Our exclusive artist led formats - musicians in their own words
"PJ used to come into the record store I worked at. She’d order big piles of albums to collect and I’d flick through them and copy what she listened to. "
"Art is so important to have in your everyday because the combination of the two cast some dramatic shadows over reality."
"When returning home, to an empty home, I continued to think about this painting - and about shared experiences of loneliness, boredom, domestication and isolation."
"It's just shards of mirror glued on a suit. But it becomes this odd mystical, physical object; when I situate myself in the landscape wearing it magic occurs."
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"I think it conjures up a sense of foreboding but also has some humour to it, think the record has that"
"When I appeared on the same concert [as Pink Floyd]in London’s Roundhouse, the audience clearly didn’t know what to make of Dolly and me and our English folk songs. We got heckled, I heckled back, everyone laughed and it all cheered up after that! "
"I’m naturally an empath, and a very introspective and analytical person, so I’ve never felt surprised that I ended up a therapist. "
"I think it’s this obvious difference in our personalities that caused me to be surprised you liked my music at all. You were an early champion of my songs and that validation really meant something."
"We are so far from one another in place, time and experience. But lying here, on the edge of seventeen, gazing up at my bedroom ceiling, I feel as if I am suddenly equipped for my own world in all of its own brutal reality."
"Denmark has many preserved monuments from the bronze stone age such as burial mounds and dolmens, and I have always found it inspirational to think of the large time span from then to now."
"The Tunis Diaries is an intimate record of how I passed a big portion of my confinement, which ended up being much deeper than I would have ever imagined."
"This was the time when I started drinking energy drinks instead of tea just to cheer myself up (until my teeth began to grind)"
"By the second week here a kind of emptiness sets in. It's a distant relative of Zen, but the mantra is capital."
"Being thrown into a busy 16 hour day at work almost gave me an adrenalin rush equivalent to playing a live gig (almost)."
"I wanted there to be a reflective property to the record, so that people would be able to see themselves when they picked it up"
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"We took a picture next to a wall of naked men, by your request. And then we said our goodbyes. As I walked into the elevator, I waited for the door to close to cry."
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"My walk home from class was made up of one unending straight line, so i’d burrow my head into the book whilst walking along... I only hit my head on passing lampposts less than 5 times"
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"I’ve grown up to your music, watched you continually reinvent yourself, continually test the limits of what’s expected of you, and yet, continually remain yourself."
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