So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.
Kieran HebdenI've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was really hectic and turning much more confrontational. So when I started working on Everything Ecstatic, that was very normal for me. I think it was a departure, but people read it as an escape from something, whereas every record I do is, I feel, a departure.
Kieran HebdenPeople read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.
Kieran HebdenAfter putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.
Kieran Hebden