Listen: Methyl Ethyl’s Jake Webb on ambience and hindsight on Arvos with Dom O’Connor

October 3rd 2015

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“I love building up background from ambient sounds, like people talking.”

One of the highlights at Volumes 2015, Perth three-piece Methyl Ethel sent representative and founder Jake Webb to FBi to chat with Dom O’Connor ahead of their sold-out show at Newtown Social Club. When asked what spawned the song “Obscura” on their album Oh Inhuman Spectacle that breakfast host Georgia Hitch can’t get enough of, Jake said:

“I was driving in the car and it just sprang up afterwards. That opening line [Georgia, what’s your number?]  was what spawned the whole song.”

For Jake, all the songs he produces are difficult to criticise in hindsight because they’re complete in and of themselves.

“It is exactly how I wanted it to turn out or I wouldn’t have put it out.”

Methyl Ethel’s songs feature a huge range of ambient noises – from the aforementioned sounds of people talking to footsteps and a whole bunch of seemingly random noises. Also, sax solos. Are there people out there trying to bring back the sax solo?

“Maybe the sax players’ union…”

  • Arvos with Dom O'Connor :: Methyl Ethel Interview

 

 

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