The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use synthesizers as their main instrument and take it seriously was probably Silver Apples. And they sure didn't know what they were doing, and they sure don't sound like anything else.
Stephin MerrittSurf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb.
Stephin MerrittThere's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.
Stephin MerrittI don't think there are any clichรฉs I try to avoid. As soon as I spot a clichรฉ, I go for it. I feel like clichรฉs are the most useful thing in songwriting. They're the tool on which you build all the rest of the song.
Stephin Merritt