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{{Dave Sitek|Those are gigantic names, and I would feel silly putting myself in that category. But my allegiance is to the speakers. My starting point is always, “What’s a way to take something we know and turn it into something we couldn’t imagine?” Despite who they worked with before, because that would be full of crushing intimidation — Rivers had said to me, “Take everything you know and throw it out the window. Make it sound like you think you should sound, and then we’ll be able to figure out what the path is.” I was intimidated, in a healthy way.}} | {{Dave Sitek|Those are gigantic names, and I would feel silly putting myself in that category. But my allegiance is to the speakers. My starting point is always, “What’s a way to take something we know and turn it into something we couldn’t imagine?” Despite who they worked with before, because that would be full of crushing intimidation — Rivers had said to me, “Take everything you know and throw it out the window. Make it sound like you think you should sound, and then we’ll be able to figure out what the path is.” I was intimidated, in a healthy way.}} | ||
{{Interviewer|Scott Heisel|Rivers, what led you to Dave?}} | {{Interviewer|Scott Heisel|Rivers, what led you to Dave?}} | ||
{{ | {{Rivers|I wasn’t really familiar with his work, though I had a general idea of what his aesthetic was. It was cool and dirty and freaky. I thought, “Let’s mate with that and see what comes out.” | ||
If we hadn’t had to take a big break over the summer, we would’ve finished this super-quickly. But we had to tour and Dave had to make another record. But from the moment we first heard “Can’t Knock The Hustle,” we were like this is so cool and weird and interesting, he’s gonna take us into a new direction. Not only did I like it and the suits liked it, but the other guys in the band were really excited as well. It’s cool when everyone gets excited like that.}} | If we hadn’t had to take a big break over the summer, we would’ve finished this super-quickly. But we had to tour and Dave had to make another record. But from the moment we first heard “Can’t Knock The Hustle,” we were like this is so cool and weird and interesting, he’s gonna take us into a new direction. Not only did I like it and the suits liked it, but the other guys in the band were really excited as well. It’s cool when everyone gets excited like that.}} | ||
{{Interviewer|Scott Heisel|Between “Can’t Knock The Hustle” and “California Snow,” which is more indicative of the Black Album?}} | {{Interviewer|Scott Heisel|Between “Can’t Knock The Hustle” and “California Snow,” which is more indicative of the Black Album?}} | ||