Dev Hynes, a.k.a. Lightspeed Champion is going to leap into hyperspace with his songwriting and blast procrastination out of the water as well.
“I decided that in every gap in the week that I found myself sitting down, or watching TV or waiting for tea to brew or logging on to Facebook, I would write and record a song instead, he blogged. I'd do it without any real thought, by making words up essentially as I went along.”“The first album is one I recorded mid May 2009 within a week whilst house-sitting for a friend of mine in Manhattan,” he says of his first effort.
“The person in question was a musician and had a couple guitars lying around, as well as mini keyboards and drum pads for their kid to play on. The week in question was leading up to me coming back to the u.k to perform the Harold and Maude soundtrack at the BFI. I hadn't played guitar in quite a while having concentrated on playing piano so much at the start of the year. The new Lightspeed album had been finished for a couple months, also. All of this wanted mt to just write and play dumb jangly guitar pop with just chords and simple melodies over the top.”
You can check out the first free downloadable bootleg “album” by clicking here.
Hynes isn’t restricting himself to simple bootleg style tunes. He has a new record out in February and the first single off it is called ‘Marlene’. Check out the video below:
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