Nothing Feels Natural E-Book

Jenn Pelly

• Herausgeber: Rough Trade Books
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Nothing Feels Natural is an abridged editions of the zine that originally accompanied Priests' debut LP of the same name in 2017. It features a series of interviews conducted with the band by journalist Jenn Pelly in Washington, DC during the first days of November 2016.

Leseprobe

Contents

Part One: 6th St. NW + Constitution Avenue NW Daniele, GL, Katie, Taylor, Jenn

Part Two: NuVegan Café Daniele, Jenn, Katie

Part Three: National Portrait Gallery atrium Jenn, Katie

Part Four: Katie’s house Jenn, Katie

Acknowledgements

Nothing Feels Natural

An album by Priests

released January 2017

through Sister Polygon Records.

Track list:

“Appropriate”

“JJ”

“Nicki”

“Lelia 20”

“No Big Bang”

“Interlude”

“Nothing Feels Natural”

“Pink White House”

“Puff”

“Suck”

Daniele Daniele – Drums, Vocals

G.L. Jaguar – Guitar

Katie Alice Greer – Vocals

Taylor Mulitz – Bass, Vocals

Part One:

6th St. NW + Constitution Avenue NW Daniele, GL, Katie, Taylor, Jenn

Jenn: What kind of teenager were you? What would your teenage self think of Priests and Nothing Feels Natural?

TAYLOR: I was always going through an identity crisis. At 16 I was really into Bloc Party and Tegan and Sara. At 17 I started going to punk shows at houses around DC—seeing local bands in basements like Ingrid and Turboslut. It was my first time seeing women make aggressive music in unconventional spaces and was a paradigm shift for me. I think teen Taylor would be impressed. I probably wouldn’t recognize myself.

When I was 15 I applied to the DC Free Recording Project. It was for teenagers in the area who had bands and wanted to record a demo. It was at Inner Ear, and Hugh McElroy from Black Eyes was our engineer. He recorded the first Priests demo there, too. Priests is the first band I’ve played bass in, and Hugh is definitely an influence. I like the way the bass sits in those Black Eyes recordings. It’s louder, funkier.

DANIELE: As a teenager I wanted to be left alone. I had a high pressure childhood being a competitive athlete. I was a figure skater from age three to 16. I had no friends because I woke up at six in the morning for practice, went to school, went to practice after school, and in the summer just trained all day. I was a socially awkward child, I spoke too quickly and had a lisp and sucked my finger until I was 13. But I always liked creating routines, costumes, personas. It really makes sense that I am the drummer in this band. Thinking about movement to music, pouring a lot of yourself in. So much of figure skating was good training for this—working by yourself for hours for one chance to get it right in front of people.

In high school I wasn’t going to shows or making music but I was into the idea of an alternative. My three friends and I met up once a week to smoke weed and watch Smackdown. We grew up in the suburbs in a stultifyingly boring cultural context. We were the cliché kids who shopped at Hot Topic and listened to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. I also tried to find God when I was 13. It was this strange thing where I’d go to church on Sundays by myself.