What are the new songs that you’re writing at the moment like?
Panda Bear: “Pretty exclusively electronic. We’re mixing it up in that all the little things we usually add at the end of recording, we’re now doing at the beginning.” Avey Tare: “We’re more getting more minimal than on Strawberry Jam, but also harkening back to Sung Tongs, with a repetitive tranciness. The repetition of techno has influenced all our records, but we’re not like, ‘let’s make our techno song’. It comes out in little ways.” Deacon: “The new songs are much more beat orientated than other stuff we’ve done.” You’ve said before that Feels was your album of love songs: what is Strawberry Jam’s theme? Avey Tare: “It’s an album of love songs too, but it’s the darker side of that, the other side of the coin. It’s also about us seeing each other again after a long time apart. It was a little scary; we didn’t know if it would work anymore. We were just trying to let the record takes its time. It wasn’t until the songs were written that we were like, ‘oh, these songs fit together an
