{"id":24408,"date":"2015-10-09T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=24408"},"modified":"2015-10-06T20:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:07:45","slug":"itw-dralms-sophie-talks-sound-band-evolution-christopher-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/itw-dralms-sophie-talks-sound-band-evolution-christopher-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"ITW – DRALMS | Sophie talks sound, band and evolution with Christopher Smith."},"content":{"rendered":"

With Dralms<\/strong>, Smith departs from his minimal and subdued musical constructions of his previous solo albums to a much more complex and heavier sound.\u00a0Still led by the cloud-soft vocals of Smith, the group veers off into cyclical dub rhythms on “Divisions Of Labour” while the spacey “Crushed Pleats” mixes OK Computer era Radiohead, rising post-rock arrangements and glitched-out electronic tones. Also contributing to the sonic heft of Dralms is producer and electronic artist Andy Dixon<\/em> (Secret Mommy, Caving), whom Smith had previously trusted with a remix of Earning Keep’s “Pillars and Pyre.” The extra clicks, echo and ambiance layered onto the songs by the\u00a0producer came late in the game, after being recorded by John Raham<\/em> of Vancouver’s Afterlife Studios…<\/p>\n

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‘Shook’ is kind of that moment when everything changes. Where you hold on to what\u2019s true to you for dear life, or let it all crumble, accept it, pick up the pieces and move on.<\/h3>\n

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Interview by\u00a0Sophie<\/a>.\u00a0Photographs by\u00a0Michela Cuccagna<\/a>.<\/h6>\n[separator type=”thick”]\n
\"DRALMS<\/a>I want to start with the origins of your moniker, Dralms. You once said it sounds halfway between a drug and a classical composer. So out of the two, which one soothes you the best\u00a0?<\/h5>\n

I\u2019m gonna play it safe and say a classical composer\u00a0! (laughing)<\/em><\/p>\n

“If you go to London, you can do a tour and play a show every night of a week” – Dralms on the Vancouver scene…<\/div><\/h3>\n
You started out as a solo artist but now you\u2019re fronting a four-piece band. Two is a company, three\u2019s a crowd, what about four\u00a0?<\/h5>\n

Four is Dralms\u00a0! (laughing)<\/em> There\u2019s this solo thing and then I sort of just evolved and changed. Dralms<\/strong> was kind of formed with the same guys I was playing with on my solo project. As we got more comfortable playing with each other, playing more music and doing shows, we started experimenting more like a band. It wasn\u2019t so much just about me taking my songs to them, it was more like \u00ab\u00a0what can we do with this song\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb It happened naturally but eventually there was a gap between the recording of a solo album and the live sound. There was a real contrast and I committed to this new process and new sound.<\/p>\n

When you say your sound evolved, how did it evolve\u00a0?<\/h5>\n

Well, I guess it evolved just like a taste for a changing. We were playing a certain sound and a certain quality of music just based on how I was writing songs but we learnt how to play with each other and I knew I could ask for them more and we just incorporated sounds that we were interested in.<\/p>\n