When I speak with Eleanor Friedberger she\u2019s in her old neighborhood, Greenpoint Brooklyn, where she lived for 14 years. Exactly two years ago she moved to upstate New York to spend most of her free time \u201cup, in the middle nowhere.\u201d Which feels fitting, considering in January she\u2019ll release her third solo album, appropriately entitled New View.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most different thing about this one for me is I recorded this album with the band that I\u2019ve been touring with for the last couple of years, so it felt more like a true band album. I would present the songs I wrote to the guys in the band and we would rearrange them altogether. Then we played a bunch of shows after that and then worked on the songs some more\u2014which I realize is a more traditional way to do things but it\u2019s something I\u2019d never done. I always made albums and then worked backwards and figured out how to play them live.\u201d<\/p>\n
A largely autobiographical record, New View<\/em> is characteristically conversational for Friedberger. It\u2019s moments she overhears, a bandmate\u2019s dream, a scene from a movie. It\u2019s a sweet girl with a broken heart. It\u2019s a long walk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI say 90% of the time I start with the lyrics. I think of it as a script and then I try setting the script to music\u2014that\u2019s really how I think of it. I also get ideas from titles I see, from the book store, from walking down the street and seeing a sign or overhearing a conversation. I\u2019m always pulling lines from various moments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI start with the lyrics. I think of it as a script and then I try setting the script to music.\u00a0I also get ideas from titles I see, from the book store, from walking down the street and seeing a sign or overhearing a conversation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Eleanor released her debut solo album Last Summer in 2011, after her band, The Fiery Furnaces (one part Eleanor, one part Eleanor\u2019s older brother Matthew) went on hiatus after releasing music together for 11 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made 9 records with my brother\u2014that\u2019s a long time to do anything with anyone. Especially a sibling, an older brother. For me it felt more like it was now or never\u2014I had finally started experimenting with home recording again which was something I did a lot when I was younger, with four track cassette tapes. I finally started making recordings at home and not even thinking about it as songwriting, just having fun making recordings. And then just being brave enough to share it with a few people and feeling like okay, this could actually be a real record.\u201d<\/p>\n
At first, taking her home recordings outside of her bedroom and onto the stage was a challenging part of her process. This time around, she changed the order a bit, not only writing with her band but also recording live to tape.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came back to New York last April and recorded in a friend\u2019s studio which he built himself in this barn. I was his first official client so it was fun to be the guinea pig. Because it was in a barn it wasn\u2019t sound proof so we\u2019d have to wait for the rain to stop, and it had a tin roof that would make a lot of noise, so if it was windy we\u2019d have to stop too. I had the guys with me for a couple weeks recording all the basic stuff and then they left and the producer Clemens Knieper and I hunkered down for the next 6 weeks and finished it. It was really a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
When I speak with Eleanor Friedberger she\u2019s in her old neighborhood, Greenpoint Brooklyn, where she lived for 14 years. Exactly two years ago she moved to upstate New York to spend most of her free time \u201cup, in the middle nowhere.\u201d Which feels fitting, considering in January she\u2019ll release her third solo album, appropriately entitled New View. \u201cThe most different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[322,49],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","category-music","tag-eleanor-friedberger"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/31A.jpg?fit=1200%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-1nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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