The Welsh-born musician joined her recent collaborator and The 1975 drummer George Daniel to talk about her new record, 'Dreamstate.'
. A couple of weeks before album’s release, the two got together to talk perfectionism, self-flagellation, and the perfect cup of coffee.DANIEL: Well, I got back to L.A. last night, and you know me, my coffee ritual—but there’s nothing. I’m on the pods. It’s really miserable.
LEE OWENS: It is stunning. I was actually talking to Samuel Bradley who shot the cover and the videos earlier and I’m just so grateful to have worked with someone like him. I feel like he fully understood and executed the vision in a way that I couldn’t even have imagined. I suppose having worked in record stores for 10 years, it’s quite rare for a record cover to genuinely be art.
Then I could truly know how I would feel about it. Anyway, my first real question is, what has been your most unexpected source of recent inspiration?LEE OWENS: I’m not just saying this because of dh2, but having spent more time with Oscar in the last few days, he sent me some demos and unreleased stuff and it has genuinely inspired me to start writing little demos myself, because hearing other people’s work that’s unreleased, it feels sacred and it’s very pure.
The deadline wasn’t set, but we’d set our ideal timeline for what was going to happen. For me, that’s always really helpful because it helps you zoom out and look at the bigger picture. And it gets to a point where things are just different, but they’re notDANIEL: I guess my answer to that question would be when you’re at that point of, “This isn’t better.” Or you’ve stopped chasing the essence of the first bounce that you had that was the reason that you listened to it a thousand times.
LEE OWENS: That’s such a good question. I’ve never been asked that. Well, I really like a slow morning. I am not a morning person, but this is even before I made music or anything, this is when I was a kid to a teenager, working as an auxiliary nurse. I just couldn’t cope with the mornings. So I’d have a nice slow morning, which includes, always and forever, the perfect cup of coffee, as we’ve already discussed.DANIEL: I felt sad this morning.
LEE OWENS: Yeah. Because there’s so much processing and energy it takes to create something from nothing or focus in on details on stuff you’ve already done. It’s exhausting, you know?
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