Come la maggior parte degli artisti anche i THE PICTUREBOOKS si sono dovuti prendere una pausa forzata dalle attività dal vivo. Il duo è tornato in studio in compagnia di Dennis Lyxzén, il carismatico cantante dei Refused e amico della band, per comporre assieme e registrare un nuovo singolo.
Il risultato è “Here’s To Magic”, un brano furioso e lievemente differente rispetto al tipico sound del duo. Ascolta il brano a questo link: https://thepicturebooks.lnk.to/HerestoMagic-Single/
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Ispirata da questa sessione la band sta attualmente scrivendo materiale per il seguito di “The Hands Of Time” del 2019.
Dennis Lxyzén sums it up as follows: ”Collaborations are exciting. Specially in a time where the world seems to be standing still we need to reach out to our friends and create together.
I’ve know the guys in the Picturebooks for a while now. They did one of their first shows opening up for The (International) Noise Conspiracy in Berlin and we’ve been running into each other ever since.This past summer they hit me up and asked if I wanted to be a part of a new song that they were working on. They were on a roadtrip in Sweden and wanted to come up to Umeå to hang out and create something. They sent me a bunch of demos and Claus (instigator, manager, general bad-ass) suggested one particular track for me. ’I think that number 16 would be perfect for you.’Sometimes tracks just appear. I don’t even remember writing the words to it or even working to get the ideas where they needed to be. It was that easy. It felt done after I’ve listened to it like 3 times.The guys came up and we met in my practice space to record and sometimes when things move to easy you get suspicious that there’s something wrong but as soon as we started recording, I knew that my first instinct were correct.
Music and creativity is mostly about hard work and sitting down and spending hours on it, just to get things exactly where you need them to be.
There’s no divine intervention or the magic of the bard; just hard work.
But sometimes there’s a flow of words and ideas that’s just there. For the taking.
This was one of those time; When the music and the words and melodies and ideas just gelled, instantly.
It’s rare that things do so. I’m very pleased that they asked me to be a part of this.
It’s in indeed some kind of Magic.”
