Interview by Laurel Faye

You’re back but different. What’s new?

I have a full band, which is rare. We’re playing my new album, Night Palace, which is weird and dreamy and windy and also concrete.

Your material is edgy. Is music a guilty pleasure for you?

Seeing a close loved one die can violently reorient one’s priorities and one’s sense of what’s worth worrying about. And yeah, there’s the guilt of surviving and spending your time enjoying life, food, making art, keeping on existing, and that’s weird, but it’s all part of it. Loss is real and universal, but it’s also a very hot fire. It’s not OK to play around with it mindlessly.

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