The Japanese House - Good at Falling (March 3, 2019) Album • Page 3

sean_rugy · Feb 22, 2019

massive write-up in NME, I'm so ready for this.

The Big Read – The Japanese House: “There’s emotion captured in my music, forever” - NME

K0ta · Feb 22, 2019

Love reading this interview with her, though I take partciular offense to this line:

For the uninitiated, The Planet is an iconic fictional venue from tragically bad, endlessly influential TV show The L Word.

Then goes on to talk about slandering Lip Service lolll.

I'm honestly so ready for this album to break me.

nohandstoholdonto · Feb 22, 2019

I mean, The L Word isn’t necessarily a great show tbh. The writing got pretty bad at times and they really treated their only trans character like shit and treated trans issues in general as a total joke.

K0ta · Feb 22, 2019

Oh yeah, absolutely. It has a lot of flaws and I hope with a reboot they have a chance to address them. I wasn't being too serious with what I said.

nohandstoholdonto · Feb 22, 2019

K0ta said:

Oh yeah, absolutely. It has a lot of flaws and I hope with a reboot they have a chance to address them. I wasn't being too serious with what I said.

Gotcha, I mean I still watched the show and enjoyed a lot of things about it. I really hope they do better with the reboot.

K0ta · Feb 22, 2019

Tbh both The L Word and Lip Service were shows I sought out in my coming out process but it's pretty unfortunate for me that I really identified with Jenny in the first few seasons and then...well we know where that goes.

And the way they address trans issues was awful.

And Dana.

Basically we need a redo.

EDIT: And bisexuality.

Jason Tate · Feb 27, 2019

This album's awesome.

Jusscali · Feb 27, 2019

Is it slower and more introspective like Lilo or does it have more grooves and flow to them like Follow My Girl? Or a decent mix?

smowashere · Feb 27, 2019

Just figured this out in preparing for the album:

GBlades · Feb 28, 2019

What a fucking album.

Carrow · Feb 28, 2019

New interview! How The Japanese House’s Walls Came Tumbling Down

My transparent blue vinyl has been shipped, it's all happening!

Jason Tate · Feb 28, 2019

morken · Feb 28, 2019

This album fucks.

Daniel182 · Feb 28, 2019

Yeah I really like this. Just finished my first listen.

Now I want to get tickets to see her in April.

FrankieThe4th · Feb 28, 2019

Amber wrote a track-by-track breakdown of the album for Apple Music.

“went to meet her”

“It’s an intense way to start an album. I think the chaos of the drums definitely reflects the chaos of the situation. It sounds like I'm talking about going to meet a girl in Ibiza, but the lyrics are really dark. My friend was badly attacked by this horrible man. I had to fly out to be with her because she was in the hospital. It’s quite a weird one for me to play live because it puts me back in that place.”

“Maybe You’re the Reason”

“There’s a lyric, ‘I've looked within and I've read but instead I keep focusing on just how thin I can get.’ It’s me asking, ‘How can I be so clever and read philosophy but actually care about how thin I am?’ Not that I think I have an eating disorder now, but I definitely did when I was younger. That was when I started to realize I'm writing some quite personal things, and I went with it.”

“We Talk all the Time”

“This song is about lack of sex in a relationship. I think a lot of gay or queer relationships are oversexualized. People assume that if you're not straight you're having sex all the time, but it's definitely a massive thing—especially in lesbian relationships—to stop having sex after a couple of years. It just stops because you're so close with that person, it almost feels like yourself in a weird way.”

“Wild”

“I wrote this when I was 17. I used to get really angry and have tantrums—but the teenage version. I’d smash stuff up and then think, ‘Oh, everyone hates me.’ I’d come out of my body and feel that wasn't me. The song is about feeling detachment from a side of myself that was really destructive.”

“You Seemed so Happy”

“Death, or someone dying, used to feel very in the distance. Then my friend passed away. It’s really jarring in terms of your own concept of mortality, because you're suddenly aware that at any point you could die. I was taking a blood pressure monitor with me everywhere and taking my temperature 10 times a day. I felt depressed but presented myself as a very light, happy human. This song sounds happy and it's a metaphor for my music, because if I go somewhere in Europe on tour, they don't understand, they're not listening to the lyrics, and they think my songs are really happy.”

“Follow My Girl”

“I wrote the lyrics for this track in Wisconsin, where I was recording the album [at Bon Iver’s Fall Creek studio]. I was there for two months. It was just me and BJ Burton—the producer—in the middle of nowhere. Didn't really leave or speak to anyone for two months, and I would go to this small house down the road from the studio and write lyrics on my own.”

“somethingfartoogoodtofeel”

“This was recorded in my bedroom. We added some strings, live drums, and rerecorded the vocal, but everything else is from the demo. It was written in a couple of hours, and after I finished it I found out my friend died. It’s a really old song but I didn't work on it because it reminded me of that day too much. Now I love the song, but it's the one I've listened to least.”

“Lilo”

“My friend Gemma called me and said, ‘I've met someone that you're gonna fall in love with.’ I was really heartbroken at the time, so I thought, ‘It's not going to happen.’ Then I went to her gig, she was really funny onstage, and I thought, ‘F**k.’ The chorus was written when we first met. The whole thing about her ‘floating like a lilo’ [pool float] is because it really did feel like she was just drifting around. She felt like a very singular object.”

“Everybody Hates Me”

“This song is about me being really hung over for two, three years. Every day waking up with that feeling of ‘everyone hates me and I've ruined my life.’ Looking back at the time, I thought—almost jokingly—it's a hangover anthem. Now it's really sad for me to look back knowing I spent so much time hating myself because I couldn't stop drinking. I felt alone for that entire period of time. I stopped drinking for a while after I wrote that song. I need to stop drinking again.”

“Marika Is Sleeping”

“My girlfriend was asleep, she was really ill, and I was napping next to her. I dreamt this string arrangement, got my laptop and programmed the strings. When I saved it I was like, ‘Oh, what do I call the project?’ I find it really hard to name things. The production’s all done on a Mellotron with weird harps and me doing a choral voice because I wanted it to sound like an old Disney soundtrack.”

“Worms”

“I love working with George [Daniel, of The 1975]. He's really organized, and that's handy because I'm really disorganized. A friend was dating one of the band [The 1975], then Matty [Healy] and George heard my music and wanted to produce it. Then I spent two years touring with them. It's weird to me that they're so big, because they’re just my friends. Then I see them at The O2 and I'm like, ‘Oh, okay. You guys are huge.’”

“f a r a w a y”

“He’s [Matt Healy] singing on ‘f a r a w a y.’ He's always one of my favorite people to play songs to because he gets so excited and he'll openly be like, ‘That makes me jealous.’ When I listened to one of his songs I was like, ‘F**k, I wish I had written that.’ I think either a lot of admiration is jealousy or a lot of jealousy is admiration. I don't know which way it is.”

“i saw you in a dream”

“It's my favorite song I've ever written. My voice doesn't sound perfect, but it's a really emotional song. It's two live takes, and I think I was crying on one of them. It’s about my friend who passed away. I find it difficult to think of writing music as therapy because it's not therapeutic for me to confront certain things. I have to play this song every night on tour and sometimes I don't want to think about her being dead. Maybe it's really nice that I get to think about her every day. It's therapy but it's also emotional torture.”

nohandstoholdonto · Feb 28, 2019

You Seemed So Happy holy shit

nohandstoholdonto · Feb 28, 2019

on f a r a w a y now

..... Hello Matty

wisdomfordebris · Feb 28, 2019

Wild is god level

Matt · Feb 28, 2019

Still waiting for this on Spotify. I’m so ready. Crazy that it’s been four years and we’re finally getting an album.

Ellite25 · Feb 28, 2019

How’d people listen to this? I don’t see it on Apple Music yet.

Josh Awesome · Feb 28, 2019

Man, this thing goes. What a fucking good album.

jorbjorb · Feb 28, 2019

It’s on Spotify for me now.

nohandstoholdonto · Feb 28, 2019

Yeah this thing is truly astounding. Can’t get over the production on some of these songs.

jkauf · Mar 1, 2019

Wow, this is incredible -- like bring you to tears something special incredible. Only complaint is that I'm not sure I like the intro as an intro -- might've preferred it somewhere else in the sequencing. And I cannot get into "You Seemed So Happy" at all, unfortunately; may have to move it because I feel like it brings the album to a halt.

jkauf · Mar 1, 2019

That vocal flow in "Wild," good god.

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