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14 PODGE
“Everyone has the capability to make art” It’s easy to forget that life is supposed to be fun. Music is a good way to remember. PODGE went about becoming a musician all backwards. “Before I considered myself good enough at guitar to start writing music, I was thinking what wacky shit I would do if I was having a TV interview,” they begin. “The reason I started [making music was for] the results that come from it – it kind of gets all the wires crossed. As I tried to get better at music, I learned that perspective is counterproductive. I feel like I started off making music for kind of selfish reasons, I was just trying to impress people. Then I fell in love with it. It’s like starting a job because you want to make money and then falling in love with the job over the years after you learn what it actually is.” It’s hard to imagine Podge as a self-conscious teen suffering under the yoke of elitism. Their new EP, Samuso, released via NTS, feels joyful, light and casually personal. It sounds like it was made by a heartbroken robot living at the end of time, who misses humans, so makes music to commemorate the living; scanning what’s left of the internet for cultural ephemera still in orbit – samples and feelings. Podge joins a growing contingent of magpie producers who don’t mind whether something’s expensive as long as it’s shiny; they’ll take anything from anywhere, choosing to ignore the confines of genre and intellectual property. “It’s weird that people are still against samples. It just feels weird to take ownership of stuff. I feel really weird about trying to make a living off music,” they say. “I’m pro pirating – I don’t know whether that’s just the internet mindset, but it feels weird to stop people from wanting to enjoy your art just ’cos they don’t wanna spend the money.” The genre-bending this cutpurse attitude results in does away with old hierarchies that draw a line between the significant and the trivial. Samuso features Podge singing catchy hooks, rapping, sampling all manner of things – Auto-Tuned voice notes; anime. Sugary synths, bleeps and bloops weave among acoustic and distorted guitars. So many influences thread themselves through the songs that it’s hardly worth getting into it. You just need to hear it. “You wouldn’t need to make the art if you could describe it in the first place,” they say. “It feels pointless making stuff that’s already been done, just ’cos, well, it’s already been done.” Pursuing the crooked, less-travelled road has its own challenges; the context of a commercial industry rewards what is quickly recognisable and easily summed up. “It’s hard to develop that kind of confidence when you’re doing something that you can’t draw parallels with what other people are doing,” they begin. “There’s not many people I can look at and think, ‘That guy’s doing it, so I could do it’, but when I do find people like that, I really latch onto them.” They are wearing a 100 gecs hoodie when we meet in the park today, a band who are a definite example of those who’re ‘doing it’ in a guise Podge is interested by. “Last year I was obsessed with JPEGMAFIA and Vegyn because they seem like they’re in FEATURE 15
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Page 3 and 4: TATE LIVERPOOL UNTIL 5 SEPTEMBER 20
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Page 7 and 8: In Liverpool 2-year degrees and 1-y
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Page 11 and 12: The Orielles - Photo: Rebekah Knox
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Page 19 and 20: THE CORAL On their 10th album, The
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Page 38 and 39: SPOTLIGHT A LESSER VERSION Liam Eva
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