My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.
Kieran HebdenI've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.
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 HebdenPeople ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.
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 Hebden