With only weeks left before the release of their steampunk-themed new record, Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland sat down with Soundspike to answer a few questions regarding The Incredible Machine. Well, what she says definitely whetted my appetite for some Sugar-fun next month!
Each song is different every time. Interestingly enough, we wrote most of these songs fairly near the studio process. There were a couple we wrote throughout the year. Three of them, as a matter of fact, we wrote while we were in the recording process itself. That was the first time [we wrote] so close to the actual recording process. We always write in different places. If we're out on the road we write on the bus or in the dressing room, or if we're home we write in our writing studio -- or sometimes in each of our respective homes and then [we] come together and write in one or the other's home. It's always different and changes [with] how we're feeling that day. I think the most interesting difference in how we wrote this record was the timing of it, and that we did write it so close to the recording that everything feels fresh and authentically where we are right now.
I think the risk is being authentic, which is really bold nowadays in a time when it seems that people are really so conscious and afraid of fitting within the boundaries of their last project. We really allowed ourselves to write what we wanted and to write from parts of ourselves that, while are still authentically us, are authentic in new ways that people might not have seen before. We really had a lot of fun as writers on this record and as musicians in being able to perform and just enjoy what that is and enjoy the diversity of everything we love and [are] able to do.
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