So, if you feel like you’re a little lost, be cool with it, go with it.” ‘No Place’ This track was written within the one night … with a great back-and-forth between us, envisioning this desert wanderer leaving all his friends and losing all perspective but he feels very content in that being. “We went out to the desert in Joshua Tree while writing in L.A. It’s very hard to explain but I hope someone out there has that same experience because it felt pretty weird for me, but I loved it.” There’s this moment in the song where this arpeggiator comes in and I just felt so weightless. I was staying at my friends’ place at the time, lay down on the couch, and listened to it on headphones and I went to particles – my whole body just split into smithereens. “I remember coming home from the studio with a demo version. It has this really cool sense of falling over itself and as soon as we were jamming on it, it felt exciting, so we felt like we had to keep furthering it.” ‘New Sky’ “Keep an ear out for the main bassline sound in this track, we wrote it on this synthesizer called the Prophet we use this sound on half the tracks on the record. I would highly recommend anyone listen to this during a sunset.”
didn’t take us too long, we bashed out the foundations of it in a day and finished the lyrics at the top of this rock outcrop during the sunset. "Funny little fact: we always envisioned getting a gospel choir in to bring a sense of uplift to the track but then we decided we had so many talented friends that could sing that we just got a bunch of them together in a studio in L.A., and I think it lends it a way more personal feeling to it.” ‘Eyes’ It’s got a really nice feeling, I guess it sums up a lot of the record for us, it’s a bittersweet journey." Read on to find out how fresh coconuts and mish-mashing songs played a part in the album in a song-by-song breakdown from James, Tyrone, and Jon. The tearing apart of the particles with the delay and digital distortion…” So, it was really exciting and fun space to play in. “On a lot of this record, we really played with sound design and tried to emulate the feeling of space-time ripping apart, as if these materials were splintering in front of you. There’s a lot more dark moments than our previous albums,” Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George, and James Hunt tell triple j. “In many ways we went through the emotional wringer, right through the album process. seachange (and a shaman) shaped their new album
They’ve furthered their vibrant production by exploring a darker side of their sound with more emphasis on emotive storytelling and vocal performances. The resulting nine tracks that make up SOLACE kicks off a new chapter for the band, representing a bittersweet balance between the inspiration they soaked up from the sun-kissed beaches of Los Angeles and the stark desert landscapes of Joshua Tree. RÜFÜS DU SOL take you track-by-track through this week’s Feature Album: SOLACE.Īfter making waves overseas with their first two chart-topping albums (2013 debut Atlas and 2016’s Bloom), the Sydney-bred trio decamped to Venice, California to begin writing and recording their third.