Thomas
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Post by Thomas on May 7, 2020 13:20:21 GMT -5
Amy Lee on Evanescence's first new studio album in 9 years and the one thing the music business really needs to remember
In the current edition of Music Week, Evanescence star Amy Lee takes on our Aftershow feature to reflect on her life and times in music. From Grammy wins to selling more than 23 million albums worldwide – with sales of the group’s 2003 debut Fallen selling 1,348,108 copies in the UK alone – it has been quite the journey. Late last month, Evanescence released Wasted On You – the brilliant lead single from their upcoming album The Bitter Truth. While the group reimagined their old tracks with orchestral and electronic flourishes for their 2017 outing Synthesis – you can read Lee’s Music Week interview on that project here – The Bitter Truth will be their first new studio record in nine years, which will be released incrementally throughout 2020. In her Aftershow interview, Lee talks about her battles for creative control, why she used to struggle with their smash hit Bring Me To Life being their calling card, and gives an update on making their new album under lockdown… “We have a handful of songs that are already mixed and finished and ready to go,” Lee told Music Week. “They’re all different, but I think so far the one thing that ties them together is it’s going to a place that’s even more raw. The last thing we put out was our orchestral and electronically-driven reimagining of old songs on [2017’s] Synthesis. That was incredible, as was the experience of performing with a live orchestra, but it took a lot of work on an internal level. By the end of it we were all really ready to get back to rocking. I don’t want to say our new album is stripped back, because it’s not – it’s big, powerful and luscious. But we haven’t done any orchestra [parts] on any of the new songs, and that’s not because we couldn’t get together with one because of the pandemic! We’re still writing our new music and the pressure’s definitely on now we’ve released Wasted On You. We lit the fuse and now we’re screwed [laughs]…” Here, in an unread extract of our interview, Amy Lee delves deeper into the making of their new album… Wasted On You wasn’t originally going to be your comeback single – how big a decision was it to change the plan?You said the “pressure’s on” to release the album now you’ve unveiled the first single – how much of it is actually done? Is it being finished under lockdown?Following on from your orchestral and electronic experiments on the Synthesis album and tour, you said you’re ready to "get back to rocking" on The Bitter Truth. What’s at the heart of that change? Evanescence have always taken their time between releases and avoided the treadmill of recording, touring and releasing every two years. How important has that been to the band? What do you think would have happened to you if you had kept churning records out?
You spoke about how you once used to feel uncomfortable about Bring Me To Life being the group’s calling card. What is your relationship with it now? Finally, you said you’ve had to fight constantly in your career to ensure creative control. From that experience, what does the music business need to remember more often? Source
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nz
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Post by nz on May 7, 2020 13:58:43 GMT -5
Thank you, Thomas! Great interview. Everytime I read an interview with Amy answering any questions in it, I just connect. It feels so natural, every single time. I wonder which song from the vault found its home on this record? I have a feeling it's going to be Perfect Dream.
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Post by princeofpersia on May 7, 2020 14:22:38 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing! So excited to hear more tracks of this album. It's gonna ROCK!!! \m/
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