You can listen to the full episode HERE.
The Talkhouse recorded even more podcasts backstage at Pitchfork Music Fest, including Julia Holter and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew, BJ the Chicago Kid and Mick Jenkins, Spencer Tweedy and Whitney, and last week’s episode with Brian Wilson and Carly Rae Jepsen and Kamasi Washington and Thundercat. You can listen to that episode HERE. Subscribe now on iTunes orStitcher to stay in the loop!
Additionally, Shamir recently wrote a piece for The Talkhouse about the new season of Orange Is The New Black and discussed race, police violence and dangerous fictions. You can read that HERE.
QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE:
“My music has a lot of influences of everything. That’s mostly because when it comes to scenes, there’s a specific type of person, a specific type of kid or whatever, who goes to these specific type of shows and like dresses a specific type of way. … And since there’s no music scenes in Vegas, I listened to music not really thinking about the person that listens to the music, I was like, ‘Oh, I like this and I’m gonna listen to it.’ And I think that really formed my musical tastes and made me not really think about genre barriers.” –Shamir on the way his post-genre outlook was formed.
“I guess I did the singer-songwriter thing for a while… I was expecting more of a backlash… And I feel like there are maybe older fans that are like, ‘Fuck this new Porches stuff’ [laughs].” –Aaron Maine on Porches’ new electronic sound on Pool.
“Well, you see, honestly ’cause I’m a OG fan, I always loved the more acoustic stuff and the more singer-songwriter stuff. And, and when I heard that there was gonna be more electronic, I was like, ‘Hmmmm.’ But after hearing the album, I was just so blown away!” –Shamir on Porches’ Pool.
“From the first time I got my guitar ’til like sixteen, I only did country music. Exclusively. I was trying to be Taylor Swift pretty much. Like I was going to honky tonks and and doing all of that. And then, obviously, with my voice and image and everything, that threw people off… . [So] I started my punk band. And I didn’t do electronic until I got a hand-me-down drum machine.” –Shamir on his changing musicality.
“I am [bringing some punk rock elements] now with the new stuff. The new stuff is definitely more guitar-based, is more melody-driven. I’m pretty much writing everything on piano and guitar.” –Shamir on the punkier, more melodic sound of his next record.
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