the realization that we should turn this
into a separate entity didn't come
immediately we just wanted to do
something together that was the driving
force behind it it became more and more
clear to us that this is neither Robin
nor example it's something else
we met in I think it was in Bergen in
2007 very nice obviously the home turf
of Tobin and myself back in Norway and
we somehow managed to trick Robin into
coming over to do a track together with
us I didn't feel like I had an albumin
in me you know an album of my own I was
really in began to just experiment and
we did that and monument became this
maybe first tractor felt like oh this is
something else we will put it on its own
too
for my bad
I was in London a couple years ago and I
saw these statues by an artist called
Julianna Sequeira and late death and she
had poured clay into these wooden boxes
and she dug herself into them one from
the top and one from the bottom then she
filled these spaces with a material she
made them into statues they stayed with
me for a long time and we started
writing on these lyrics that were about
that almost physical feeling of the
finding maybe who you are and what you
want to do with your life there's
something very fragile about voices that
are not man-made like a metaphor for you
know what is actually human like the
defects and the weirdness and the things
that don't really make sense and how
this machine is trying to sound human
but it's not really
the starting point is a toy for kids I
can say certain words playing with the
syllables of the pre-programmed or
pre-recorded words we can basically make
the robot say things it shouldn't say we
do have a fascination for technology we
love sci-fi movies when we are kids in
datas the music that catches our ears
and fuels our imagination it's
electronic music we both drum machines
synthesizers we have lived with the
changes in music technology throughout
the years from the early nineties until
now for us it's like a good pencil for a
drawer if you find the right tool you
can make your wish come true
we have never expressed technology
through music it's more of the best
pencil we could find
it started from these these cords that
turbulence they had made and sent me a
while ago turn done done that little
hook if you will we wanted to write
something that was strict on those notes
that don't but you're so limited and
then we just said okay let's have a two
syllable word and then it was do it she
just became like insanely catch there he
said it accidental pop song and I think
that's that's a nice way of describing
how it happened
it's an old thing old but one of the
other things we did I think it is a
embodiment of the common thing that
Robin has in her music that we have in
ours namely this although there is a
certain beat the certain drive and but
the theme that the things that are in
song about are sad or melancholy almost
and it's that kind of a song series that
it is
it's the really dreamy part of the album
it's the end it's the after-hours it's
basically what we did the day before do
it again I think or baby the day after
the Idol our club is something that is a
place that is very special for the three
of us it's a condition and a place
I love working with spinnin program
because it's very open and it's very
fluid and they get their head around
very delicate details and big emotions
it's both this very qualitative way of
thinking about arrangements but also on
this project we let ourselves go a
little bit as a group and discovered
things together