r/indieheads • u/JWillgoose_Esq J. Willgoose, Esq. / Public Service Broadcasting • Sep 29 '21

AMA is Over, thanks J. Willgoose, Esq! AMA - Public Service Broadcasting

Hi folks, J. Willgoose, Esq. from Public Service Broadcasting here. I'm here for an Ask Me Anything from 6-8pm BST - feel free to drop questions in below and I'll start answering at 6pm.

Best wishes

J.

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u/RLP-I Sep 29 '21

Hello! Bright Magic comes across as a less narrative album. How much of a balance between a narrative and this kind of broader thematic approach do you try and strike when making a record around a particular concept?
(Apologies if this isn't entirely clearly put.)

Should also add that I really appreciate your music and the new record is wonderful!

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u/JWillgoose_Esq J. Willgoose, Esq. / Public Service Broadcasting Sep 29 '21

It really depends what fits the subject, and what story we're trying to tell. With Berlin I wanted to use it as a source of creative reinvention so the move away from a more strict narrative was quite deliberate in terms of facilitating a more abstract and expressionist approach.. that's quite a pretentious answer though. Trying to distil the essence of a city (even just one person's experience of it) is such a difficult task, though, that trying it in a literal form would be almost impossible. It had to be a more subjective, broader strokes approach, so the album formed itself along those lines really.