Following acclaim for her affecting sound collages, the Texan’s new album flips her old ‘emo ambient’ to ‘ambient emo’, inspired by Young Thug and Sparklehorse – and an unexpected show of charity from the Wilco frontman
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“The bed has been very central to me throughout the last couple years of making music. I’ll even mix tracks in it,” she says. “I’m also just so depressed, all the time. So I’m in bed a lot.” She smiles and lets out a small laugh, dulling the sting of her candour; no matter how bleak the conversation gets, she maintains a dry, mischievous wit. Some days, she adds, she’ll pull her blackout curtains down at around noon and stay in bed until the following morning. “It’s comforting but also enabling.
Rousay came of age in an evangelical Christian community in San Antonio, Texas. She started playing drums in her church’s worship band, dedicating about 40 hours a week to an endless schedule of practices and performances. She eventually broke with the church’s orthodoxy, specifically questioning its prohibitive sexual mores. Considering rules against premarital sex, Rousay remembers thinking, “What if I blow this skater boy in my high school? Is that OK? That’s not sex, technically.
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