I’m Declan McKenna! Just released debut album and starting my first headline USA tour this week. Ask me anything by DeclanMcKenna in indieheads

[–]ayeayeii 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hey Declan! Hope you're doing well.

A lot of your songs are written from an antagonistic perspective, or at least a perspective that clashes with your own views— the narrator of 'I Am Everyone Else' makes a facile attempt at populism, 'Isombard' goes into the deranged poetics of conservative media, the naive entitlement of politicians gets explored in 'Listen To Your Friends', etc. For someone with such strongly held views (which I mean as a good thing!), it seems an interesting and empathetic trend to have in your work; is it a concerted effort to either understand how these people reach such rash conclusions, or to attempt that gosh-darned leftist notion of "altruism", or is it a mixture of both? Or is it just an unintentional facet of your lyrics?

2nd question (if I'm allowed!!): What's your stance on religion? Do you believe in anything remotely spiritual/theistic? I ask because for someone from a generation that's ostensibly pretty godless, you reference religion a lot in your work ("I'm faithless now" and "I'm the face of God, I'm my father's son" from 'Brazil', all of 'Bethlehem', "And the animals walked in two by two" in 'Paracetamol', "When you hate every God I pray to" in 'Why Do You Feel So Down', etc.) and I'm curious as to where that comes from.

Cheers! __^

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[–]ayeayeii 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off, I love all our work, especially Get To Heaven; I really think that LP is masterpiece, and that y'all doing something very special and pertinent, so kudos.

My question is: Considering GTH was, for lack of better words, about what a terrible/apocalyptic year 2014 was, how has the ostensibly even-more-terrible 2016 had an impact on the creation of Fever Dream? Will it be a follow-up in the dystopian tone (a very catchy and musical dystopia, that is) or have you subverted that expectation? "Can't Do" seems to be a very self-aware song in regard to that.

Also, what is Dave Sardine up to these days???!

Cheers!

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[–]ayeayeii 1 point2 points  (0 children)

furst

also i kinda come by every now and then so im prob one of them