There’s just something magical about that city. I actually turned 30 whilst I was walking across that river it hit midnight from February 6 th into February 7 th as I was walking across the bridge over that river. “Vltava is the river in Prague, and I knew I wanted to name a song after it because Prague has always been a very significant place to me for many reasons. Similarly with Vltava, is this album about places you’ve looked at on Google Maps? The song is the longest song on the album, I think it’s 11 minutes and 11 seconds, and it’s meant to be a musical representation of the desolate landscape up there at the edge of civilisation.” There was a period of time where I would just look at the place on Google Maps and get totally enthralled with it, as it just seemed like the end of the world to me. It’s just somewhere that I’ve always wanted to go because it’s so wild and remote. “Svalbard is the most northerly inhabited place in the world it’s an island owned by Norway where they do oil drilling off the coast and it’s mandatory that if you go outside you have to carry a rifle because of polar bear attacks. What inspired the electronica of Svalbard? Wes Borland: No casual Friday in Limp Bizkit (Image credit: Getty) The record was mostly recorded from about seven in the morning until noon every day for five weeks, and I’d wake up super early and ready to work, then record for about five hours each day. I work really fast too, and I like not having to wait for anyone else because as soon as I start working on something I get into a flow. Over the years I’ve grown really fond of working alone and I enjoy not having to talk or explain myself to anyone else. What was the most enjoyable aspect about recording this album, then? It felt like it was finally time to do that, and I felt like I was finally able to do it.” These were all things that have always been very important to me and they’ve all been major building blocks for me as a musician, but I’ve never gotten to showcase them on an album before. I wasn’t afraid to delve into things that were slightly cheesy in an ‘80s way either, as far as using Simmons drum machines and analogue synths. I was definitely inspired by a lot of movie soundtracks too, particularly Vangelis and Tangerine Dream. I also love Air, Daft Punk, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Russian Circles, the lighter side of Pelican, and a little bit of Explosions in the Sky. I love Tortoise and I love Boards of Canada. “Mainly from post-rock and electronic music. It’s different to anything else you’ve done, so where did you draw inspiration from? So I guess I could sum it all up by saying that I wanted to make an adult record.” I don’t have that youthful, rebellious emotion of wanting to shock people anymore. I’d also run out of the need to be musically aggressive and I knew that was something I didn’t want to do anymore I wanted to make something that would hold up over the years and be timeless, and also fun and beautiful but not shocking. Black Light Burns had kind of ran itself out in my head too, and there wasn’t a lot more that I wanted to do with that project. The concept was to have a record in which I got to showcase some of the things that I really love but haven’t gotten to do in Limp Bizkit. That gave me about a year to think about the next musical project that I wanted to do. In the time that I wasn’t on tour, I was moving across the US and renovating my new home, so I had no studio set up for quite a long time. “Last year, I was on tour for eight months.
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