For Kevin, my lil Beaker.
Happy TACO!
August 25th, 2009 by French Fry
Hello Max. It’s unusual to be having this chat today – usually when a new band comes into view it will be the lead singer who’s put forward for a chat. Yet here you are to tell us all about Carolina Liar. What would you like people to make of this new band?
I hope it’s gonna be the same thing that caught my ear the first time I heard them, which is that it’s all about the songs. You know? Well crafted and well written soulful songs.
And it was Chad, the singer’s own demos that turned you on to the band?
Absolutely.
How did you change Chad’s early demos?
Well a lot of people think – because of what I’ve done earlier, and my reputation I guess – that this is something I’ve built from the ground up to what it is now but in this particular case it’s actually the opposite because if you heard the demos that I heard you’d hear the songs as they were. People ask me, ‘how was it?’, but although I’ve co-written on a couple of the songs on this record most of it is not me. My involvement was about not fucking it up – it was all there, I just needed to make it sound a little better.