As the Notwist worked together on its new album, Close To The Glass (Sub Pop), the trio felt the songs were going in too many directions. Ultimately, the band gave up on finding a center and embraced the diversity. “With this record, there were no rules anymore,” says frontman Markus Acher. This outcome makes perfect sense when considering the band’s history. The Notwist is all about exploring possibilities: of the interface of acoustic and electronic, the planned and the unplanned, collaboration and revision, evolution and experimentation. The group has released only seven albums over the course of a 25-year career, and Close To The Glass is only the second since 2002’s landmark Neon Golden. Acher will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on the band.
Markus Acher: We play with Adam “doseone” Drucker and our other best friends Dax Pierson, Jeffrey Logan and Jordan Dalrymple in the band 13 & God, and one reason, we make new records is, that we hope to tour through the U.S., and meet them again. (Jeff will play with us in Europe, so we will see him soon.) I’m a big fan of Adam’s art; he is a John Coltrane of words, fast, incredibly funny, dead serious and exploding with melodies. Long before we met, he recorded together with the equally genius Odd Nosdam and Yoni “why?” Wolf as cLOUDDEAD music, which doesn’t age, and that I can’t listen to enough. And also, he recorded guest vocals, together with Yoni, for the band Hood on its incredible Cold House LP, from which the song “You’re Worth The Whole World” is taken.
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