For their new record, Echo Street, Amplifier needed to make a true break with its ambitious predecessor, the double LP The Octopus. A break as well as related to music as to the composition process: this record had to be written more spontaneously and also be more accessible for the listener.
In the following interview, the band’s leader Sel Balamir says how satisfied they are to have been able to make such a lightened and light-hearted album.
The album release matches with the band’s signing at Ksope Records, a label that has been more chosen for its work than for Amplifier’s closeness with other bands signed on it, like Anathema for instance: a kind of working relationship with artists adapted to today’s music business that Amplifier seemed not to find in other structures.
At the end of this interview, Sel answers to our questions with humour and philosophy about Steve Durose, who joined the band after Oceansize’s split-up: he has been indeed harassed by the press about this subject for a while now.
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