If I want to sing on a record, and I get it to a place where I like it, I should put it out into the world. I realized that failure isn’t worth stopping you from doing what you want to do. When I started DJing, sometimes I’d have good gigs and sometimes I’d have terrible gigs. But after touring the first Vampire Weekend album, suddenly insanely successful, and that introduces the idea of failure…the idea of embarrassment. When I was 16, writing s-y pop-punk songs, I wasn’t thinking about music in terms of success and failure. Q: Is there an inherent sense of risk that comes with venturing out on your own?Ī: Absolutely. Article content I don’t think you’d be able to drop a seven-minute techno instrumental into the centre of any Vampire Weekend record, but I think it works on my record This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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