John Vanderslice, I Hardly Knew Ye

Maybe it's time I gave John Vanderslice another shot--even if the Game's pushed less weight than a midget sumo wrestler. D: So what do you think of acts like No Age—bands that intentionally shirk self-consciousness, or make a point of being shambolic? JV: If you’d asked me what I’d wanted to do five years ago, I’d have told you I wanted to be Viktor Vaughn or The Game—I would want to be a rapper with an eight ball of coke in my pocket and a wad of hundreds. Because that kind of freedom—well, perceived freedom—is where I want to be. And that’s probably as far away from what I could do. To make a live record—something that has a lot of lice in it—is difficult. After slaving away for years in the studio, when I hear a No Age record or when I hear Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first EP or when I hear DRI or really early punk stuff, it’s just so powerful, so raw—and I know how hard that is to create. It’s very deceptive. It’s like a Dardenne brothers film—it seems like just a handheld camera following some people around in a trailer park, but it’s incredibly difficult to do that. Via Decider  care of Largehearted Boy Download: MP3: John Vanderslice-"Fetal Horses" MP3: John Vanderslice-"Too Much Time"