We all know Fred once more.. is a gifted music producer. But it is truly his humanity which is his best weapon.
After being starved for connection all through the isolation of the pandemic, our starvation for real bonds is ravenous. And nobody is in a position to domesticate them with their music fairly like Fred, a grasp of unfiltered storytelling whose new album, Actual Life 3, is a reminder to imbue coloration in life’s gray moments.
AL3 is a microcosm of Fred’s profound capability to flip life’s happenstances into visceral dance music. Interpolating samples from actual-life encounters, transcendent songwriting classes and even random movies despatched by buddies, the album is a collage of the mementos he is collected throughout his breakthrough yr.
We’ve pulled the yarn of AL3 and unearthed the origins of these samples.
“Eyelar (shutters)” samples a quick video despatched to Fred by London-based singer-songwriter Eyelar. The observe was one in all the first he produced for Actual Life a few years in the past, Atlantic Records tells us.
“Delilah (pull me out of this)” samples a video despatched to Fred by Delilah Montagu, who sung a stay rendition of her observe “Lost Keys.”
“Berwyn (all that i got is you)” makes use of a lyric from a session with Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy and samples a voice word despatched to Fred by Trinidad-born rapper, producer and songwriter Berwyn.
“Bleu (better with time)” samples Bleu’s observe “You’re Mines Still (feat. Drake).”
“Nathan (still breathing)” samples a TikTookay video Fred discovered whereas scrolling by way of the app, posted by Indiana-based singer-songwriter Nathan Archie.
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“Danielle (smile on my face)” samples a recording of 070 Shake’s efficiency of “Nice To Have” stay at Boston’s Brighton Music Hall in March 2020.
“Kelly (end of a nightmare)” samples Wet’s observe “Take Hold Of Me.”
“Mustafa (time to move you)” samples an Instagram submit shared by famend singer-songwriter and poet Mustafa.
“Clara (the night is dark)” samples The Clara Ward Singers’ 1994 observe “The Storm Is Passing Over.”
“Winnie (end of me)” samples Winnie Raeder’s observe “The End Of Me.”
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Fred opened up about his sampling route and why he movies his nights out.
“The reason why I’m the person who films everything on a night out is because when you are hungover the next morning, it’s just nice to glaze through the memories and you kind of soften the blow. You’re like wiretapping yourself,” Fred mentioned. “When you get that lovely sort of elevated energy of a group of people when you all spend 10 hours together on a proper long night out, and by the end you’re all kind of floating in the same ether. It’s a lovely thing. I’ve got some videos on my phone that I cherish, cherish for that reason.”
Check out the full interview under.
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