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Hi Gideon, welcome back to VENTS! Can you talk to us more about your latest single “Dealing”? Did any event in particular inspire you to write this song?
Yeah well New York pretty much turned into a ghost town. So it is sort of an abstract rendering of NYC during the darkest moments of the pandemic conveyed through the lenses of a few different predicaments…. a couple stranded in New York….a man sitting alone….street of sickness which people barely traverse. That kind of thing.
The single comes off your new album ‘Watchya Gonna Do’ EP, which is one of the other tracks on the EP – what’s the story behind the title?
That tune is sort of about emerging from the isolation of the pandemic? Will we change? Will we appreciate things differently? Will we lose the sweatpants? Will we be any better?
How was the recording and writing process for this new EP?
Pretty darn collaborative. We huddled up in a studio in the woods and just crafted these thing in for if a basic skeleton of words and chords. I think from a sonic standpoint we really used modern technology in a restrained but cool way.
We know you are a big fan of Steely Dan. How would you say the band influenced your writing?
They taught me jazz harmony and pop music can mix. They taught me that being painstaking about the recording process is worth it. They taught me that sonic perfection is something to reach for in the studio. They taught me that abstract lyric writing can be more powerful than linear and literal storytelling. They were the bomb.
Where did you find the inspiration for the songs and lyrics?
Life. Pain. Joy. Just kidding. Not really.
What else is happening next in Gideon King’s world?
I’ve been teaching myself to make pizza and sushi.
