The bigger a world you're creating, the more space you afford yourself to connect all the components in varying degrees of scope or interesting complications of conflict. There are many technical advantages to making something that is more novelistic in its devices. It actually felt more playful to counteract the trend of making media that is overly concise and facile.
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Also, we felt no real pressure to assimilate to popular formats or easy digestion, so there wasn't really any internal resistance against making a long record. Each song leaned up against the other in my mind, as essential intertextual pieces of overlapping reference and narrative. When it came time to make our next record, there was nothing I could bear to cut. So I had a lot of time to write many songs that came out of the same condition, with no real outlet for about two years. Being away, I was developing this wild obsession for crazy specificity of detail regarding my local world of memory which I was feeling uncomfortably estranged from for the first time. I had always written about conflicting and complex notions of 'home' up to that point, but being away from home caused my intensity of memory and stylistic zoom for personal domestic portrayal to exaggerate almost exponentially. It was the first time we'd ever toured that hard or had been away from home so constantly. The immensity of the project was sort of just a practical byproduct of being on the road for 2 straight years in 20-having all of these songs pent-up and coalescing with complementary thematics. Did you have in mind from the beginning to write a double? Is there a concept behind the record? I was impressed by the length (and by the consistence) of “ Eternity Of Dimming”.
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Matthew Milia does not skimp on words, neither in his songs nor in this interview: a real immersion in the world of Frontier Ruckus. "Eternity Of Dimming" is one of the most moving records this year, because of how it has intepreted the passage to adult life, how it has maniacally reconstructed a small museum of sensations, smells, impulses, friendhsips. Twenty songs, packed in like clothes in a teenager's wardrobe.