Podcast Appearances
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And you go to the Bristol Aquarium.
I love all things marine.
No, the reason why it's called It's Hard To Be A Fish, many reasons, but partly because when I started making the album, I lived by the sea in Coogee in Australia.
And my partner at the time was like a full ocean swimmer, did like the 2Ks out into the ocean and like would also go stalking stuff a lot.
So that was very much part of like...
my world at the time of making or starting to make the album and was like truly trying to tap into that when i was producing as well with the sounds and stuff with just like lots of ocean and water samples and seagull samples and stuff like that and then and then broke up with that person and moved out and my whole life changed completely and then i had this like reckoning with like i guess my family life i don't talk to my parents anymore um love them god bless them
It's very complex, and I do not wish any ill upon my parents whatsoever.
I love them, but I can't have a relationship with them anymore, and the album is kind of about that.
It's about my feelings swirling around that, the grief of having to disconnect yourself from your parents while they're still alive.
The sort of resentment as well, which I have to acknowledge.
There's a lot of anger there, a lot of resentment, but then also sort of the feeling of, I guess, relief as well, I guess, after the fact.
analogies in there about like being on a shipwreck and then floating in the ocean deciding where you're gonna go next like are you gonna swim back to that person are you gonna like find some new island and see what happens even though it's unknown and scary so that's sort of
It's all trying to incorporate this notion of, like, fish, ocean, ships, like, drifting in and out, the oscillation of things, and I guess, like, family life and just encompassing all these, like, experiences of my life.
And then the next routine is a different thing.
Like, memories, you just leave them behind.