The strange thing about how I do things is because I take two to three years between records, so much happens and so many things are different by the time I go back to make a record, that because of that they seem very different from each other and I’m almost a slightly different person every time I’m going to start writing again and recording again. ĪD: Do you look at your work as each thing you release as another part of an ongoing piece of art or is every album sort of an entity in itself? Do you see your work as a whole or as individual parts? It’s hard to look at it as a big picture kind of scenario and dissect what it is that’s different or what the exact progression is. I write less and I scrutinize my songs more than I did 12 years ago. HD: Well, I like to think that my recording techniques are better now than they were and I don’t know.
How do you feel your songwriting process has evolved over the decade you’ve been releasing music? I just play a different sort of rhythm when I’m writing on piano.ĪD: At this point you’ve been recording and releasing albums for a little over a decade. So the three main differences would be the tempo thing, putting a ton of instruments on a bunch of songs and the fact that a lot of them were written on piano and that kind of added a different kind of texture. Why this album and that change? I just had a lot of fun adding instruments to the songs and I wanted to not have too many songs with a mid-tempo – I feel that some of my albums have too many of those and it’s something I kind of naturally go to and I wanted to get away from that a little bit. And it’s funny ’cause what we’re doing right now is mostly up tempo with a lot of instrumentation. Hayden Desser: Well, it’s funny you mention that, ’cause being on tour now I’ve noticed especially seeing previews of my show coming up and people saying ‘folky Hayden’ or ‘if you’re in the mood for a nice, mellow, poetic show then come to this’ sort of thing. They felt a stylistic or recording change – can you talk about the recording process for the album and if there were any conscientious style changes in what you’ve been doing over the years? Some people, long time fans, feel thrown for a loop off of the first track. touring and audience anomalies in Philadelphia.Īquarium Drunkard: You’ve got a new record out called In Field & Townand I wanted to ask you a bit about some of the responses to the record.
He sat down earlier this month with Aquarium Drunkard prior to his show at Local 506 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and discussed the new album, evolution in his songwriting, the differences between Canadian and U.S. His new album, In Field & Town, is instrumentally his most fully realized to date. as the heir to the folky mope-rock throne over a decade ago. Hayden has come a long way from his introduction to the U.S.
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