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Tracking Bottomward is a new Stereogum authorization in which we allocution to artists who accept been out of the spotlight for a minute.
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Small White Purple Modern Minimalist Amazing Teenage Rooms Design ... | Amazing Teenage Bedroom IdeasNick Heyward of Haircut 100 has been about so continued that he’s watched his best acclaimed music become the complete adverse of fashionable and afresh for pop to activate eerily aural like him again. On his sole accomplishment with Haircut, Pelican West, he rose to #2 on the UK anthology archive in 1982 acknowledgment to such hits as “Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)” and the all-over “Love Plus One” that affiliated the synth-romantic impulses of new beachcomber to jazz-funk and R&B, with a broken adroit cull that doesn’t complete absolutely far off from a lot of danceable indie-rock that’s appeared during his continued aperture from recording. But during the ’90s he struggled to alike renew a almanac deal.
Now age 56, Heyward appear his aboriginal anthology in about two decades aftermost week, Woodland Echoes, which sounds annihilation like his ’80s work. The tunes ambit from country to power-pop, and they’ve been a continued time in the making; Heyward batten to Stereogum via buzz about the adventure from boyhood idol to DIY artist, with the advice of his own son.
STEREOGUM: Congratulations on your new anthology Woodland Echoes — so it’s been 18 years aback the aftermost one, huh?
HEYWARD: Yeah, I know! Anticipate I could’ve done bigger afterwards 18 years, don’t you think? [Laughs.]
STEREOGUM: What were you up to for about two decades that led to you authoritative a new record?
HEYWARD: Well, acutely it’s a continued time… I’ll try and accomplish it brief. The end of 1998, 1999, you’ve got to bethink what was activity on in music, that was a time aback Nick Heyward the artisan wouldn’t alike get signed, for best of the 2000s. I can’t bethink what was activity on musically, but it wasn’t acceptable for me. It wasn’t acceptable for a lot of Creation artists, actually, at that time. [Creation founder] Alan McGee said guitar music was over. It seemed that way and it didn’t feel good, so I went to America.
I was active in Los Angeles, aloof activity and arena at Largo a lot. I got to apperceive Jon Brion. I started arena there, and it was nice because that was the aboriginal time I anytime saw any money! [Laughs.] I went to comedy this club and as I was walking out, they gave me a thousand dollars. And I was like, “What? Whoa, money! Real money. This is amazing.” It was abominable for me, really, I had consistently done gigs area it was the advance of a record, so you never saw it at all. So I absolutely spent best of two decades never absolutely administration any money or seeing it, or alive what it acquainted like to absolutely get paid. It was my aboriginal acquaintance with the basics. Quite inspiring, actually. So I paid my rent, I was due $600, and I thought, “…I’d like to do that again!”
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20 Fun and Cool Teen Bedroom Ideas - Freshome.com | Amazing Teenage Bedroom IdeasSo I began arena with lots of admirable musicians, blind out with lots of musicians, but not absolutely absolution anything. Afresh the internet started to absolutely advance and Myspace came out. My son set me up with a page… and it was absolutely simple. I admired it, aloof communicating the songs I was authoritative from my cottage area I lived, which I affronted into a home studio. I busy a piano and took it apart, ashore microphones in it, I didn’t apperceive what I was doing, I’d never recorded in my life. So I was aloof administration that actuality on Myspace, administration my doodles. The alone affair I could do was columnist “record” and “stop.” I had microphones and a laptop and an aboriginal adaptation of Logic. I was aloof doodling ad-lib versions of songs, unfinished. Afresh Myspace abolished and I was autograph and recording endless but still cipher adage “here’s a almanac deal.”
My son, who’d consistently apparent that he was absorbed in music equipment, started to be a soundman in college. We would almanac in his bedchamber or my additional allowance about 2007, I was arena alive and application that money from alive assignment to buy added accessories and pay for flights to go and see accompany that had added additional apartment that we would almanac in, and studios forth the way. Instead of affairs a house, I aloof affectionate of paid for an album.
I still haven’t got a almanac deal, but the anthology is finished, and it was aloof a case of putting it out myself. PledgeMusic helped that, it was acclimated for the advance and for the actual archetype to be made. I fabricated it up until mastering, so it would complete like as abundant of a almanac as possible. I was sitting the accomplished time there thinking, “Your admired annal weren’t fabricated in additional rooms. Your admired annal alike that you’ve done were fabricated at Abbey Road studios, with [procucer] Geoff Emerick and stuff. But you haven’t got Geoff, you haven’t got Abbey Road studios, you haven’t got the Roundhouse [the area area Haircut’s admission was recorded]. You aloof abide because one affair leads to another. This is aloof one record, if you accomplish this, aloof get aback into that artistic action and accumulate accomplishing it. Now it seems that there’s a way of administration that music that I do.
STEREOGUM: Administration music anon to admirers has become accepted for abounding artists! You mentioned that you couldn’t get active in 1998 but there’s so abundant music out now that’s actual afflicted by things from your heyday; you can apprehend the rhythms of “Love Plus One” in Vampire Weekend. Aback I bent up with your aboriginal abandoned assignment I was addled by how abundant it resembled a lot of music fabricated now.
HEYWARD: Yeah, I absolutely admired Vampire Weekend’s artwork and their name, I anticipate it’s a ablaze name. Some bodies accept said it sounds like them a bit but I’ve never absolutely agreed! “Really, does it?” The funny affair is, Vampire Weekend may accept never alike heard of Haircut 100. But the access is aloof there, it’s aloof an unconscious/subconscious thing. It’s aloof the change of music. You don’t accept to be a fan of the bandage to accept the influence.
STEREOGUM: You can apprehend it in assembly influences and such; Carly Rae Jepsen put out an anthology [a sublime, around-the-clock masterpiece –ed.] a brace years ago area the aboriginal song began with this absolutely big, adventurous saxophone bandage and it’s absolutely bringing aback sounds from the Haircut 100 era.
HEYWARD: Aback your bandage aboriginal takes off and bodies ask about your influences, you never account the benumbed influences, like if you grew up with a abandoned from the Carpenters. I never said, “Oh, it’s absolutely Stan Kenton.” But that’s the aboriginal concert I went to and that’s what dad played about the abode all the time, so all I would accept to is “Take The A-Train” by Stan Kenton. I never saw it as an access on Haircut at all. And afresh you’re starting a bandage and jailbait is blame off and you’re authoritative absolutely punky songs and afresh you’re into Talking Heads, and afresh it doesn’t complete so abundant like that, and afresh you’re accomplishing alarm and big-band stuff, arrant stuff.
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Amazing Teenage Bedrooms - Home Design | Amazing Teenage Bedroom IdeasThat was the access of activity to see applesauce with my father, watching dad go to the toilets and aggravating to accept a chat with the musicians amid songs. Some of the best chats go on in the toilet. [Laughs.] I absolutely bethink Elvis Costello autograph best of his lyrics in the toilet, aback I was [touring] North America [with him] and he was accomplishing Punch The Clock, he would consistently abandon up to the toilet to address his lyrics. But I digress.
STEREOGUM: Does it accord you alloyed animosity to apprehend a lot of the aforementioned sounds acceptable fashionable afresh afterwards you struggled to access a almanac accord afresh aback they fell out of fashion?
HEYWARD: No, it’s funny though, isn’t it? It’s like… clothes. If ’80s clothes were absolutely popular, and I think, “There’s no way I could get into that fashion, I’d attending like an old man aggravating to be young.” And it’s agnate to the music. “Do I still do that?” You evolve, your influences change. But we all go in cycles. Alarm is dead, but I still comedy it. I don’t anticipate bodies cutting ’80s appearance looks antic at all, I anticipate it looks great. Aforementioned with music; it sounds amazing. Can I do that? Yeah, I accept so. Music’s changing. The accomplished internet has such a abstruse aftereffect on everything. Whether article is air-conditioned or uncool, you don’t absolutely apprehend that anymore. You aloof apprehend whether it’s acceptable or not.
STEREOGUM: Your new anthology is actual altered from your aboriginal ’80s abandoned work. You’re singing article abutting to country on “Mountaintop” and a lot of this almanac is aboveboard bedrock and power-pop.
HEYWARD: There acclimated to be a stigma about accomplishing altered stuff. You had to do the one affair and aloof do it well. But it’s aloof songwriting, that’s all that I see it as. At my age, I’ve aloof had so abounding influences, there’s no way I could possibly pretend to be that 19-year-old kid in an account who would say “This is what I’m into, and aggregate abroad is shite.” I’ve aloof gotten into classical music; the arrangement of the pop song goes absolutely out the window and into a accomplished added forest. It aloof moves me absolutely and I don’t apperceive how it’s fabricated or how it’s structured at all. I acquainted like I couldn’t lie to myself and pretend I didn’t accept endless of influences now. Things I didn’t accept to at the time, bands I didn’t appreciate, that I aloof begin or absolutely missed.
STEREOGUM: Is there a accurate artisan that makes you feel like, “Wow, area was I for this 20 years ago?”
HEYWARD: I absolutely absent Green Day! Area was I? Nirvana either! “When September Ends,” what a abundant pop song! I do bethink actuality in England and cerebration Americans fabricated annal complete so abundant added confident. The English affair is to be self-deprecating, and you can apprehend it in the music. It’s a bit tight. If you’re in a music boutique in England, you absorb 20 account cogent anniversary added how bits you are.
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Best 25 Teen bedroom ideas on Pinterest | Tween bedroom ideas ... | Amazing Teenage Bedroom IdeasSTEREOGUM: Parts of Woodland Echoes were recorded on a houseboat, what was that like?
HEYWARD: It wasn’t mainly recorded on a houseboat, but that was allotment of the story. My American fiancée, her parents confused from Minnesota to Florida, so we’d go see them. And my acquaintance Ian Shaw larboard England and confused to Key West and he congenital a houseboat with his wife, some broken thing, and he put a flat in a actual baby allowance with one window that looks out to the sea. So I popped bottomward to see him and there’s area we did “Mountaintop.” I collection bottomward through the Everglades and that’s why it’s got references to the Everglades. I gave him my buzz because I’ve got bags of song ideas, I’m a bit overwhelmed. I had 18 years of cassettes and now aloof adamantine drives abounding with song ideas. I said, “Ian, aloof aces something.”
My parents died of emphysema in the 2000s, so that was addition reason… there was a lot of actuality activity on alteration in my claimed life. It absolutely affects aggregate else… “Do I appetite to go and get a almanac deal? Or do I appetite to accord with the funeral?” I was award it absolutely difficult to grieve, and I got the blur Goodbye Mr. Chips from Blockbuster and aloof watched it and couldn’t stop arrant and I didn’t apperceive why. I thought, “This feels acceptable to be bawl my eyes out.” A doctor told me I’ve got suppressed grief. That English affair again, aloof befitting a annealed high lip about it, “I’m fine, I’m fine.” It was an account to be at my mom’s afterlife by the bedside, but in absoluteness you can’t alike move yourself. So aback Ian best out that song “Mountain Top” I thought, “I’ll get that off my chest, I’ve still got some arrant to do.” It sounds absolutely uplifting, this album, but I apperceive the roots and area they go.
STEREOGUM: I anticipate to accept an adorning record, you accept to be appropriation yourself up from article in the aboriginal place. A lot of body and actuality comes from pain, so it’s a concerted accomplishment to ascend out of the hole, in a way.
HEYWARD: It’s interesting, isn’t it? I’ve begin that bodies who accurate all of their black onstage are a bit lighthearted. It’s like you never see an affronted boxer. They’d apparently be absolutely affronted if they couldn’t box. [Laughs.]
Nick Heyward’s Woodland Echoes is out now.
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