WEEKENDS' Multi-instrumentalist Adam Lempel Liberates Frankenstein Lovesong, "Tape a Twenty" & Bob Dylan-esque "Boo Radley" (The Witzard Premiere)
"I recorded myself actually, ["Tape a Twenty" is] one of the few songs that I recorded everything and mixed everything myself on ["STILL LIFE"]. And it was done in Amsterdam. It's kind of a love song about making the imperfect work; like there's nothing perfect, but everything is imperfect/perfect. The video, I made at at the beginning of last year at my school HKU (Utrecht University of The Arts), where I'm doing a Masters in Music Design. It was the first two weeks of school—we just had this time to work on a project and I kind of decided I wanted to run around the school with a video camera and make a music video. It was funny 'cause I was in a music program, where I could do anything I wanted for the first time of my life, and I spent my time working with video. I built these kind of weird temporary sculptures out of junk and strapped a smartphone on the top to create these weird junk people."
"I imagined a guy, like working in an drab office environment with like these co-workers that he constructed himself out of junk; kind of like his weird robot friends. I thought it was a funny concept for a love song, someone singing to the projection of his own mind... kind of like falling in love with your own
Frankenstein
. Maybe all love is somewhat like that—we fall in love with our own projections of who people are. Anyways, I kind of edited this video last year and sat on it for a long time not knowing if it was "done enough" or whatever and I think in keeping with the concept of the song, it doesn't make sense to try and make this perfect thing, but rather it is imperfect/perfect and it's "done enough,'"
Adam Lempel
, one half of experimental
Baltimore Art-Pop
band
WEEKENDS
, continued. Lempel has taken a bit of a self-imposed sabbatical since
WEEKENDS'
last full-length release,
(2013) and relocated to
Amsterdam
, where he's currently perusing a
Masters
in
Music Design
at
HKU
.
Adam Lempel
's most recent solo release, from which
"Tape a Twenty"
stems,
"STILL LIFE"
is currently available for streaming, download, and purchase in a number of physical formats from
Soundcloud
,
Baltimore
-based
, etc. Lempel tells me he's currently putting the finishing touches on his next solo release, which is tentatively titled
Happiereally
... as well as
WEEKENDS' New Humans
follow-up "that's been recorded and mixed already" and seemingly, just awaiting a proper release.