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    Q&A

    Jul 15, 2021 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW: STEPHEN DEUSNER

    Steve Gunn: “I was able to break out of certain patterns and cycles”

    There’s a brightness in the sound of this record, a colour to match the album cover. Was that something you planned, or was it something the songs demanded?

    The whole idea for the album started with me really wanting to get back to who I was as an individual. As clichéd as that sounds – I’m sure everybody who makes an album says that – I was trying to reconnect with the openness of my music on previous albums. A

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