“I started to think about what home was to me in general, and the idea of immigration - and then COVID happened, and then homes sort of became this whole other layer, where like for some people homes were sanctuaries and for other people homes were their prisons.” “I tend to have the title way before I have the record, or even know what songs are going to be on the record,” she explains. While the title might, on its own, indicate that its contents lean towards a “COVID album” of sorts, Spektor explains that she had the album name picked out years ago, and had done so before she’d even begun to write the album at all.
Home, before and after, the name of Spektor’s eighth studio album, carries a lot of weight on its own - the concept of home is evocative enough, and it’s then bolstered by the idea of a delineation in time. “Where are all the fish? Well, maybe you shouldn’t have brought a megaphone to this.” “It’s like somebody screaming at a fish pond for 10 minutes and then like putting in their their fishing rod,” she tells Consequence of trying to force herself to write. She’s often struck by peers and friends who have developed different types of discipline, people who craft songs with the skill of someone assembling furniture, but her process has always been much more organic. The singer-songwriter, who is about to release her first album in more than half a decade, explains that she isn’t the sort of person who sits herself down at the piano when she doesn’t feel like she has something to say.
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