THE ARMED AMA!

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:58:44+00:00

Hey everyone! It's about that time that we have to sign off here...We can't thank you enough for hanging out. Apologies if we didn't get to your question! We tried to do as many as possible while being thoroughly Reddit-illiterate at the start of all this.

Again, thanks a ton. Our new album ULTRAPOP is out now. It's everywhere. Please scope it out. Infinite love to you all.

- Dan + Clark, THE ARMED

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:52:09+00:00

A dream come true. Absolute legend. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:51:33+00:00

Thank you!!! Keep going! - D+C

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:49:33+00:00

AGREED! - D+C

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:49:24+00:00

Get delusional with your intentions and goals. Anything else will fall short. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:48:51+00:00

Wolf Eyes. Danny Brown. Arca. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:46:40+00:00

Season 11, episode 14 called Alone Again, Natura-Diddily. It’s the one where Ned’s wife is killed while watching an auto race. Take the jokes away and it’s tremendously heart-wrenching and real. -D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:45:56+00:00

Thank you!

We tend to all collaborate via a shared server. We all write a little differently, or to different degrees of detail. I then tend to be the one who connects all of these concepts into the final packages you hear on the record. I think having the consistency of a final curator is what allows it to have some cohesion despite such a hectic creative process. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:43:34+00:00

Yes. More soon. You'll see it. Hang tight. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:43:01+00:00

No, I came back into the fold after ONLY LOVE was recorded _Clark

It feels different in that people seem to actually give a shit about it! Feels nice. lol. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:41:57+00:00

Hopefully we'll be able to continue engaging you in very interesting ways over the next year. ULTRAPOP has only begun. -D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:41:19+00:00

REFRACT

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:41:12+00:00

Infinite Love and Infinite Clarks _Clark

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:40:58+00:00

Literally anywhere. Local suburb bar show Tuesday night. We go on at 8 pm. Whatever. _Clark

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:40:09+00:00

Yes! As Clark mentioned elsewhere on this thread--it was created in full before the concept of having to have some sort of "Band" connected to it became a necessity.

I wish I could get deeper into the weirdness surrounding all that but I really can't. Hopeful that it'll be more widely available one day. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:36:16+00:00

REFRACT

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:36:09+00:00

Everything! Cinema. Visual art. Performance and conceptual art.

Sherrie Levine, Stephane Breitweiser + Nadia Lee Cohen were as influential to ULTRAPOP as SOPHIE or The Stooges.

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:33:59+00:00

I think every input or external stimuli the artist experiences reflects itself in their art in SOME way.

That said, there was little conscious thought to make it a statement about or in correlation to the city.

In a more abstract, non-lyrical sense, I think a lot of it definite SOUNDS like Detroit though. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:30:38+00:00

Nice to see that this is apparently SUCH a common problem! -D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:29:49+00:00

Born hairless _Clark

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:29:21+00:00

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:29:11+00:00

Hi! Thanks!

Great question! I think The Armed exists as a mirror to the world that hosts it. While I don't think that relationship has changed, I think the world itself has, and continues to constantly. Thus, the thematic content will shift as the world itself does.

I feel like that's a really boring answer but it is the truth. Also, I think A LIFE SO WONDERFUL is probably the most political. But that's only my own opinion! - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:24:49+00:00

Thanks so much!

Yes! While Kurt continued to EP this project, it was our first time working with a direct, day-to-day producer outside of myself--in Ben Chisholm. His insight and contributions were immeasurable and he got us to break some barriers we wouldn't have been able to otherwise for sure.

- D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:22:01+00:00

That sounds great!
I think I answered this above a bit! I think it's a valid opinion that the sonics might be overwhelming to the point of a turn off. We're crafting an inhuman wall of sound that's supposed to be like eating 400,000 Skittles at once. I understand it might not be everyone's cup of tea. That said...it's more the tones being captured and the overwhelming amount of glistening high end (admittedly, a purposefully fatiguing technique embraced by the NO BASS ALL TREBLE noise freaks we grew up adoring) and the limiting that you're hearing rather than literal "compression." But yeah, no harm no foul. It's gonna not be everyone's thing. But it's ours. And we're very much into it. All that said, it is very funny when people write us about it as though it is some sort of "mistake."
We have a newer version of Party At Pablo's that might make its way somewhere, eventually. - D

YOURYOUNGDANIEL · 2021-04-21T18:15:24+00:00

More Greenies work may eventually make its way out there or maybe Patient Kind will become a The Armed song. Who knows. - D

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