Intervi3ws
I read a piece on you and the writer admitted to thinking you were Welsh, do you know where One Cloud of the Roofs comes from?
Mark: We don’t, but is it somewhere in Wales by any chance?You use a lot of chopped up natural sounds in your tracks, what were your influences regarding this?
Matt: We were trying to get a more natural sound to the tunes, but most of the samples are actually synthesised. I think the more natural sounds come from the vocals, and we try to get a bit of contrast with that from the production. Having said that it would be quite easy to go too far into the electronic side of it, so we try to keep it balanced.Mark: I think as the songs are written and structured in quite a traditional way we want to try to keep that natural feel to the music.
A lot of bloggers have noted that you’re in between folk and electronica, maybe even dubstep sounding beats, was that a sound you intended to begin with or did that come later?
Matt:I don’t think we ever tried to go for any sound in particular. We both wrote music separately before collaborating, with quite different influences. When we started writing together it was just a matter of trying to find a way of making our different styles and influences fit together. We probably went through about a year of writing, and countless songs and bits of songs before we actually started to produce anything with any kind of cohesion that we were happy to release. Mark tends to work a lot faster than I do so lyrics and melodies tend to get sorted pretty easily, but I would be quite happy to piss about, working on the production and beats forever.
For me as a Dj, the pinnacle of my career would be to support Pantha du Prince, is there anyone that you’d really love to play with?
Mark: We like so many different artists that it’s hard to single out one in particular we’d like to play with. I think if we did play with anyone we were big fans of, we’d probably be embarrassed by how crap we were in comparison.
Outside of music, I’m a huge fan of American literature, are there any passions you guys have that don’t necessarily come across in your music?
Matt: Funny you should mention literature as my other job is a bookseller. So i’m with you on that one.Mark: I really enjoy travelling and have spent time living in a few different countries. I still seem to have itchy feet so I’m always thinking about the next trip.
Your track ‘Evidence’ has the line ‘it is time to call it a day’. Have you ever been tempted to scrap music?
If so, what would you ideally do instead?
Mark: I think we enjoy making music too much to give it up. If we weren’t in Glyphs I’m sure we’d still be making music in some form, even if just as a hobbie.·
You’ve joined a booking agency with no money, a small roster and a reasonably cool tumblr site. What are you guys hoping to get out of joining us here?
Mark: We’d like to play for, and with, people who enjoy the same music as we do.
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