Beat / After the more Folk-like predecessor “Birth of Violence”, your new album seems more electronic, eclectic, and it has a bigger production. What music has influenced you this time?
Chelsea / When I look at the songs that inspired me, there was a lot of late 90s stuff like Tricky and Trip Hop in general, and then there was also kind of early 2000s music like Radiohead. The producer we worked with, Dave Sitek, who was a co-founder of the band TV On The Radio, also played a significant role. So, I think that was a good starting point, this concept of bringing Rock and electronic music together.
Beat / There are beautiful moments and brutal, destructive elements to be found in your music. Are you consciously trying to create such a polarity, a yin-yang principle?
Chelsea / Yeah, I think that‘s something that has always interested me—bringing together the dark and the light, creating contrast and tension within the music, and not just going one way or another.
Beat / At the same time, there is often something experimental in your music. A deconstructivist element. Is
