Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe talks new material and getting “blamed for everything”
nme.comAnton Newcombe has spoken to NME about All Seeing Dolls – his new project with Dot Allison – as well as his recent health scare, his time spent with Anthony Bourdain, and what fans can expect from upcoming UK tour with Brian Jonestown Massacre.The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer launched the new project with Allison with the single ‘That’s Amazing Grace’ — an ethereal, My Bloody Valentine-inspired track and the first preview of upcoming album, ‘Parallel’.“I think it brings something different from each of my other projects.
She wrote most of the songs during COVID and I told her, ‘If you want to do music like that, I’m the only dude in the world [who can contribute].
I’ve got that vibe down, it’s in my soul,’” Newcombe told NME.“It’s her, sitting on her couch with an acoustic guitar. She has a really great voice and out of the stack of recordings she sent me, there was only one I didn’t like. [For the rest,] the first thing I said was: ‘I’m not even going to so much as cut, trim, rearrange or remix any of this stuff.
I want to completely build a whole world around this feeling of her sitting on her couch’.”He added: “It was just a pleasure and it took a while to do because there’s a lot of really weird stuff.
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