yeasayer ! stop.look.listen

When asked what he’s listening to these days, Keating said a lecture series on the history of religion. When asked where he’s been looking for inspiration, he talked about recently wandering through the Greek and Roman wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and imaging sounds in the artwork. “I walk around a space like that, that has a nice quiet energy, and reflect on it,” he says. “I get inspiration from different things that are non-musical. Definitely also from reading books — the inspiration you gain from that is sometimes more inspiring than music, because with music it’s always going to be derivative.” .