Stand Atlantic on GODBREATH, Death, Love, AI & Making Music Feel Human
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Stand Atlantic have built a career out of turning chaos, anxiety and uncomfortable emotions into songs. But what happens when the person writing them suddenly finds herself happy?
Poppy Reid is dressed by American Apparel Shop the looks at https://www.americanapparel.com.au/ In this episode of On The Record, Bonnie Fraser and Miki Rich talk about the emotional shift between ‘Was Here’ and ‘Godbreath’, Bonnie’s changing relationship with thoughts of death, falling in love and confronting something she never imagined herself writing about: happiness. Bonnie opens up about growing up struggling to communicate what she was feeling, why songwriting became the place she could finally put those emotions, and how finding a healthy relationship forced her into unfamiliar creative territory. We also get inside the making of Godbreath. The pair explain why Stand Atlantic stopped chasing perfection, live tracked the record and deliberately kept some of the mistakes that would normally be edited out. That leads us into a bigger conversation about AI, increasingly perfect production and what happens when technology can replicate almost anything digitally. For Stand Atlantic, the response was to make something unmistakably human. Plus, Bonnie and Miki break down why Stand Atlantic refuse to chase whatever sound is currently trending, and how trusting their own taste has kept the band moving forward. Subscribe to On The Record with Poppy Reid for more long-form conversations with the artists shaping music now.
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