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.” .

Well, we’re definitely producing it ourselves, but we might enlist some help from some of our friends. […] Right now we’re recording in a little practice space in Brooklyn and then we’re moving down the street to a studio in Greenpoint where we’ll be for the whole month of September.

In the past we’ve created things in the computer, and augmented it. Then we had to learn complicated stuff that we did mostly with computer technology, so you have to learn something that when you’re playing it on instruments is kind of counter-intuitive […] A lot of great sounds are still going to come out of the computer, layering effects and things like that, but now we’re in a really early phase of bringing it to a full band and working it out live.