Definitely really excited to come home and play again, I think I just miss Australia because I’ve been away for about two years.įuturemag Music: How will these Australian shows compare to the rest of your international tour? We’ve had some cool growth in the US which has been amazing to see. It’s been interesting to see how different crowds react. Since Bloom came out, we’ve been able to see the world more. We started out just touring around Australia for the first four or five years.
RÜFÜS DU SOL: It’s been really cool! It’s been interesting. It was a promise to treat people better, and there’s a sense of hope in that.įuturemag Music: You're currently touring internationally, with shows in the US at the moment and more planned for the UK and Europe later this year. We were focusing on making music and there was no sense of balance. We were almost neglecting that part of our lives. At the time that wasn't the calculated theme, but it became apparent quite quickly that it was an anthem for ourselves towards our friends, family and partners. RÜFÜS DU SOL: That one was more of a nostalgic and bittersweet ode. When I listen back now, it’s like a portal back to that point in time and whatever we were going through.įuturemag Music: Can you tell me about ‘Treat You Better’ and what inspired that one? The whole record feels like a snapshot, with each track portraying an insight to a different point during the writing process. There’re also some nostalgic points, and points of hope. We were neglecting our personal lives to work on music. We were just working day and night, and not giving our bodies any rest. It came out of a lyrical jam and the repeated triplet lyric, “I’m stuck underwater.” We realised that it was on point for where we were at, because it felt like we were stuck underwater and lost in this process. That’s where the theme for ‘Underwater’ came out of. RÜFÜS DU SOL: There’s a few different themes that kept coming up in terms of feeling submerged in something. Can you talk about how these developed during the writing process and what inspired this?
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That was definitely a newer approach for us, trying to embrace the light and the dark so we have the full spectrum of emotion.įuturemag Music: This maturity is certainly evident in Solace and it delves into some deeper themes and messages. We tried to channel that darkness rather than shy away from it. We felt like we were getting sucked into the vortex of it. We were working till 6am every day and it started to become really exhausting. It pretty quickly became an unhealthy process. We had all of these amazing synthesisers and toys, and we were working crazy hours.
In the process of doing that we went over and set up a studio for ourselves.
We wrote the most amount of songs we ever had for a record. As soon as we got back into it, we were just generating a lot of ideas. We had so many ideas and a million notes in our iPhones.
After putting Bloom out and touring that for two years, we were so hungry to get back into the studio. Just from having written two albums we felt like we were much more capable producers. RÜFÜS DU SOL: With Solace we were able to take more of mature approach with the production and song writing. Futuremag Music: Jumping straight into it, with Solace as your third album, how has your sound and approach to music changed over the last few years?
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