What made you want to tone down the collaboration? This record doesn't have any rappers on it.

I have standard guidelines for myself that I have to put the music up against before I put it out. I want everything to be good enough to last forever. Where does that process come from?Īs far as my own music, I'm pretty strict on myself and selective of what I put out. You work in big spurts, where you put a bunch of stuff out and then go away for a while. But I didn't begin seriously trying to put it together until about a year-and-a-half ago. I'll generally have half of an idea that's four years old or something, and I'll bring it back in a new way. It's all over the place, which is pretty typical of my process. These are things that were repurposed, brought back, or started way before 2018. It's hard to say because I started making it in early 2018 but a lot of ideas came from way before that. How long did this record take from beginning to end? 'Glowing Bones' sounds like a neo-classical take on rap production, with sparse, experimental drums backing whispered vocals and staggered, vibrating synths. It's the kind of detail that gets lost on bad speakers but rings ecstatically through headphones. But the track is bolstered by the subtle ring to his snare drum. Opener 'Rune' builds around traditional Clams tools: trap hi-hats, pitched-down vocals, and murky synths. This note reveals itself in the staggering details of Moon Trip Radio. 'I never used to use headphones and now I've started stuff from scratch with headphones and am making things entirely while using headphones. That stuff is pretty funny and pretty surreal.'īaby Clams has also influenced his dad's production in other, less expected ways. 'But he'll hit it really hard, and then hit it really softly, and then notice how he's changing the sound.

I'm not showing him anything, he just does it,' he explains. 'I'll watch him play this little drum and he'll hit it really hard. Never drawn to the glimmer of New York City, Volpe has settled into suburban anonymity and welcomed a son into the world, who at two years old is already mimicking the tendencies of his old man. Despite his notoriety within East Coast rap, Volpe seems content in his role as a low-key hitmaker. Not including a long-running instrumental mixtape series, the fourth installment of which was released in 2017, this is only Volpe's second official album. Clams' latest LP, Moon Trip Radio, is his first since 2016's 32 Levels.

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