Jehnny Beth on new solo music: “I’ve never had so much fun in the studio”
nme.comJehnny Beth has given up update on the new solo music she’s been working on, and what to expect from its “light” and “hopeful” direction.
Watch our video interview with Beth above.Speaking to NME at this weekend’s Open’er Festival, the Savages icon turned solo star explained how her new material following on from 2020’s acclaimed ‘To Love Is To Live‘ was taking shape.“With my solo project I feel like, because of the pandemic, I haven’t really been able to show to the world what I can do,” she told NME. “I had to stay in Paris and I realised the talent I had around me, the amazing people who also wanted to work with me.
In a way, I was too blind before to see them as much as I saw them when the pandemic happened.”She added, on working with this new creative team, that she had “never had so much fun in the studio, I’ve never laughed that much,” noting that this brings a “lightness” and “hope” to the new music.Elsewhere during the interview, Beth told NME about how the pandemic allowed her to fully embrace boxing, which she’s been doing for four years now.
She described it as “one of the best disciplines I’ve ever had to learn” and even spoke of her first ever official fight.“I had to step on the ring to realise I was a nice person,” she said. “Because to be a boxer you to need to unleash that beast, that visceral almost killing instinct.
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