“There’s an idea, and you just sit down, and before you know it, it’s 2:00 a.m., and I finished a song I’m really stoked about,” he shares. He says that the songs that just fall out of him tend to be the better ones. So the album’s kind of all over the place.” “I don’t tend to write with an overarching theme, because I’ll lose interest too quickly. “I just write what’s in my head,” he says. He first penned “Feb 14,” a tale of a special Valentine’s Day that he still thinks about, and the remainder of Sleepyhead unraveled from there. Sleepyhead is a continuation of Cavetown’s revelations in sexuality, awkwardness, and self-confidence drawn in by drifty vocals moving along a digi-melodic landscape only Skinner could manufacture, from its Weezer riff and swell on opener “Sweet Tooth” through the more delicate, acoustic-and-pop-steered reminiscences of “Things That Make It Warm” and “Wishing Well.” Sleepyhead reveals less naiveté and more self-assurance gained through life’s perplexities.Īccording to Skinner, he has no clear songwriting process. It’s another chapter in Skinner’s own book of life, something he’s already uncovered in Lemon Boys’ lo-fi tales of social anxieties, unrequited love, and other misanthrope adventures. There’s no structure to his lyrical madness-he just tends to write until there are enough tracks for another album. Recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Skinner in (where else) his bedroom, Sleepyhead was the result of constantly writing. After releasing his self-titled debut in 2015, its follow-up 16/04/16 in 2016, and his 2018 breakthrough Lemon Boy-along with covers, digital mixtapes, and other reworked material- Cavetown’s fourth album is a new chapter in Skinner’s DIY art. Learning to play guitar from his father, director of music at Cambridge University, at the age of eight, and having a mother who was a professional flautist, Skinner was born into music. Robbie Skinner, now twenty-one, has connected with more than a million devout YouTube subscribers by performing from his bedroom since forming the experimental musical project Cavetown at the age of fourteen. But you gotta look for the good things in it-so at the moment, I’m relaxing and just being a person for a second.” I’m looking at it as an early break, even though it’s obviously terrible for so many people. “It just kind of came earlier than I expected. “I’ve been looking forward to having some time off,” says Skinner. press visits, and fan events were all locked in.ĭespite this sudden halt, the singer is making the most of his down time since Sleepyhead was released on March 27th. Art gallery pop-ups featuring his own paintings, U.S. Pre-coronavirus, everything was in place for the release of Cavetown’s first studio album, Sleepyhead, which is out now via Sire Records. After making his way through the first part of a world tour, he had no idea that his Brussels show would be his last for the unforeseeable future.
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