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\n\tSitting in a hotel room in Liverpool, Garratt is reflecting on how he\u2019s shown up for himself over the past few years \u2013 ever since the pandemic brought his Love, Death, & Dancing Tour to a halt and he battled his own ego and negative self-talk. He explores that journey on his third album Pillars<\/em>, which arrived in August on independent label Cooking Vinyl (he was previously signed to Island Records).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tOf his first new album since 2020, Garratt believes it to be the most \u201cme-sounding thing\u201d \u2014 the majority of which he wrote, produced and mixed himself. Below, he shares how he pulled himself out of a difficult time and killed his egos, while he continues to work on mastering self-love.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019m now in a position where I really do have more ownership over my music and over my output,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve always seen albums as as a stepping stone that I\u2019m landing on and the rest of the map is loading. I\u2019m not thinking about album four or what the next step is. This album is just gonna paint the map a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAhead of releasing Pillars<\/em>, you signed a new management team and new record deal. What was that process like?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019m only interested in working with people who want to check their ego at the door and come in, and make something great for a purpose greater than any of us \u2014 not to self-aggrandize or overcompliment the artistic process or making a record or anything. It is not the most important work, but it should be when we\u2019re in the room together. When I met with Cooking Vinyl, I felt alignment, choice. It wasn\u2019t a desperate plea from either of us. It was good-intentioned, like-minded people who take their independent roles seriously. I don\u2019t want to be right \u2014 I want the right idea to come out of the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBefore finding a new team and recording <\/strong>Pillars<\/em><\/strong>, you\u2019ve said you were ready to quit music. Album track \u201cCatherine Wheel\u201d changed things for you \u2013 tell me what led to that song.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI was going through a breakup, a situationship that destroyed the boat \u2014 didn\u2019t just rock it. I went to Los Angeles to stay with my friend Sophia Bush and we did Christmas together. I was still deeply, desperately infatuated with this person, then this thing happened that made me know it was done. It woke me up to their behaviours and needs not necessarily aligning properly, but also my selfishness and people pleasing and how manipulative that is. It was really sobering and I wanted to write. With a lot of songs on the album that deal with that part of my life, the person singing it isn\u2019t a hero. There\u2019s still a lot of toxicity and issues. Some of the things that I\u2019m saying in that song like, \u201cJust use me, because my purpose now is to be used by you,\u201d \u2014 I mean, that\u2019s a red flag.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWhat inspired the overall sound of <\/strong>Pillars<\/em><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI remember listening to \u201cSpitting Off the Edge of the World\u201d by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The drums are so self-aware and they just sit in this pocket. They\u2019re so slow, but they\u2019re so loud in the mix. I remember going, \u201cI know that\u2019s the drums I want in the big moments.\u201d The character is just so infectious. I love when you can hear production that\u2019s a storytelling device and just sounds f\u2014ing good. I often forget that\u2019s part of my job.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWho else inspired you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tFor this record, The Waterboys \u2014 the storytelling, the lyrics on \u201cThe Whole of the Moon\u201d\u2014 were a big inspiration for me. Adrienne Lenker \u2014 I\u2019m obsessed with her storytelling voice. I\u2019ve really tried to knuckle down with this record that I wanted to be a better songwriter. That was the most important thing \u2014 to know I was writing the best stories that I could.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tOn <\/strong>Pillars<\/em><\/strong>, you explore different kinds of love \u2014 romantic, platonic, self-love. Why was that important to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI don\u2019t think I will be able to love myself loudly forever. It is cyclical. I\u2019m in a good place at the moment and I\u2019m loving it and holding it rather than worrying about it disappearing. That comes from work, having built that pillar stronger. The album is called Pillars <\/em>because I spoke to my therapist and said, \u201cI have these pillars to my love \u2014 the way I give and receive self-love, romantic love and then platonic or familial love. I think my self-love pillar is so weak that it\u2019s putting pressure on the other two pillars in ways that I\u2019m terrified is gonna make them crumble as well.\u201d So the job became to build the self-love pillar. Make it stronger. Tend to it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cFlower Girl Confetti, Hopeful Fidelity Lasts\u201d is a standout track, what was the concept behind it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tPillars<\/em> isn\u2019t a concept album, but there is something conceptual throughout the whole thing, which is how I give and receive my love. The first half of the record is about really letting yourself go into something. \u201cReady! Steady! Go!\u201d is a song that encourages someone to be like, \u201cYou and I are feeling something. You either need to let me go fully into the feeling or you need to let me go so that I can do this somewhere else.\u201d And \u201cTwo Left Feet\u201d is an encouragement song \u2014 \u201cWe could really love each other.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\tIf the first half of the album is more shiny and surface-level, the second half of the album is the grey of it, the depth of it. It\u2019s the second and third layers of ground underneath the fresh lawn. \u201cFlower Girl Confetti\u201d is very much one of those layers of ground where it\u2019s sticky, repetitive, and monotonous. And that lyric, \u201cI waited, waited and it\u2019s over now\u201d embodies the confusion and the self-[flagellation]. It\u2019s like a sister song to \u201cManifest,\u201d the opening track.<\/p>\n
\n\tHow has your journey to self-love and acceptance changed your creative process?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tWith this record, I\u2019m actively doing parts work, just trying to enjoy the present moment and surrender everything else. I suffer from anxiety, which focuses you so much on your past and uses it as an excuse as to why you should overthink your future. My job is to just quiet those parts. That\u2019s why a lot of the songs on the record feel so isolated, so singular, because I\u2019m just trying to exist in the present moment. Like \u201cBig of Me (Flight the Bee),\u201d that opening verse came out of my mouth already written. The rest of the song was just a dissection of that present thought. That exists on \u201cShaftesbury Avenue,\u201d \u201cTwo Left Feet,\u201d \u201cCatherine Wheel.\u201d There\u2019s other songs on the album that are repetitive mantras.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tYou made a vision board for this album. What was on that?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI wrote maybe over 20-25 songs for this album. I didn\u2019t know who I was, who was singing them, what the story was or anything. I had this title and was looking at these songs like, \u201cIs it three albums? Is it three pillars? Is it this mammoth work?\u201d My friend Lapsley [and I] just sat in my studio and listened to a bunch of them. She was like, \u201cHave you made a vision board yet?\u201d She showed me the one that she was making for her album, and I was immediately like, \u201cThis is so inspiring.\u201d I made a Google Slideshow that night with photographs and artwork. It was a creative vomiting of what this world [was going to] be. I took that to [photographer] Wolf James. She was like, \u201cIt\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s all Dal\u00ed and surrealism.\u201d I would have never seen that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cJoy is an act of resistance\u201d was a phrase that used to come up a lot for you. What idea or sentiment is front of mind now?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tI ask the listener, \u201cPlease play loud in service of joy.\u201d There is too much about this industry and this job that encourages joyless spaces. Having a campaign exist entirely on Instagram, a campaign that entirely exists around servicing streaming services, is joyless. And I need the joy. I have for so long punished myself and not allowed myself access to it, and this is me taking that back and reclaiming it. I lost myself and I couldn\u2019t see the wood for the trees and I almost quit. But in making this album, I have found the joy in the job. It\u2019s in the people. Of course, it scratches the ego a bit, but the joy that I\u2019m watching people experience because of this record allows me to access joy as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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