Kanye West is about to be the Michael Jackson of my generation. Not in the race-bending wierdo way, but in the uber-pop banger way. This upcoming album (Love Locked Down, Coldest Winter, Heartless) is sheer brilliance in it's minimalist emo ridiculousness. With Jay-Z cutting Coldplay remixes and Kanye making ridiculous pop songs with keyboard assistance by Brian Eno, the time is getting right for Silver Medallion to bloom...
As we finish up our first record (2 songs left!), I've been looking back on what we've created and how it functions as an extension of me. When you put so much time into creating something and it gets in as many people's hands and minds as our music, that's a piece of you that's tied into the master energy of the universe in a way that requires serious consideration.
Our songs have a lot of feeling, but at the end of the album I look back at what we created as something almost impersonal in its ambiguity. The situations apply to us, every song is a life we've lived, but the scenarios are generalized, broadening their appeal and carrying their weight on the emotion of melodies and the wide range of appeal rather than on our personalities as artists.
The majority of this album is love songs, so it's almost upbeat in its subject matter, its an optimistic debut that we've created. Now with that out of the way the songs I'm writing personally and the beats I gravitate towards are far darker, far more personal. It's a strange juxtasposition to me to put out a pop, broad first album, and then look to a personal, rawer project to follow that up with, very different then what I view as the road to success of acclaimed underground album leads to pop release...
This all comes at a time in my life which is damn fear fragile emotionally. Days are the hustle, pushed to a desperate yearning for success that drives me to achieve things far outside of what I'd imagined possible. Nights are a tangle of different girls, mini-relationships and clawing around on top of this ridiculous nightlife scene. The songs that are bred out of this don't have the optimism, the hope, that I feel makes our first records so approachable, it's going to be interesting to see the evolution of our music after this album.
Anyway for those in AZ, we perform at Silver on Tuesday for their Tuesdays launch, Wednesday's we're gonna rock the In and Out launch at Coach and Willies (although rumour has it it's up in the air if its going down?), Thursday we're presenting a night called Silver Medallion Presents Hedonism I'm hosting at E4 which is 18+ and is sponsored by local cabarets, and Saturday we headline the notorious Obama Rally at Canvas... Plenty of opportunities to come see your boys!
