New interview at The Vancouver Sun. An excerpt:
Q: Going back to something you had said prior, about pulling back
the instrumentation in Miniskirt, that you wanted the lyrics heard, that
is one of the other big changes in this record, is that you’re singing,
Raph. Before, your voice was always part of the instrumentation, but it
seems like your voice steps out more.
Raphaelle: That was
something we really wanted to do with this record. We were inspired by a
lot of singer-songwriters, particularly Joni Mitchell and Sarah
McLachlan and Alanis Morissette and even Katy Perry. (Laughs.) ... Just
that upfront and forwardness of the vocals was something really, really
exciting to us. And I was really proud of a lot of the words I was
writing, so I wanted them to be heard and everyone else did. It was like
a “no hide” kind of record. All of the parts are quite exposed — the
piano is exposed, the drums are exposed. Everything is, “This is what it
is, so this is what it is.”
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