{"id":14806,"date":"2017-10-18T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14806"},"modified":"2017-10-23T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:39:12","slug":"louise-burns-uses-full-band-to-get-new-sounds-on-young-mopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/10\/18\/louise-burns-uses-full-band-to-get-new-sounds-on-young-mopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Burns uses full band to get new sounds on Young Mopes<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver\u2019s Louise Burns says that once she started writing material for what would become her most recent album, she couldn\u2019t stop. The end result is Young Mopes<\/i>, which came out in February and landed itself on the Polaris Prize long list earlier this year. But Burns admits now that even though it was easy to get started, it was a struggle to get the album finished.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started writing for the album, I didn\u2019t know if I even wanted to make a new album. I was going through a weird time in my life, having a sort of quarter-life crisis in a sense,\u201d says Burns. \u201cWhen I was writing them, though, I really wanted to focus in on making the songs good and catchy, with no ulterior motives. By the end of the writing process I kind of realized it was my way of saying goodbye to my old mentality and opening up a new one into the future. I\u2019ve been seeing things in a more positive light.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Louise Burns accidentally channelled \u201980s sounds on her new album (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Burns says that although the songs on the album sound very \u201980s, she didn\u2019t really take inspiration from many places. Most of the songs on there were her exploring the pop side to her music, and things just happened to come out sounding like they did back in that decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just sort of got more in touch with my pop songwriting style,\u201d she says. \u201cI just decided, \u2018Fuck it, I don\u2019t care about being trendy, I don\u2019t care if it isn\u2019t the coolest sound, I just want to go with what I like.\u2019 I really just ended up selecting a little bit from artists that I liked, like Kate Bush and R.E.M.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young Mopes<\/i> is the first album that Burns has worked on with her new band. She says that it was a whole new process for her in terms of getting ready to record the album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had that experience before, doing pre-production and going over parts before we actually went into the studio,\u201d she says. \u201cBeing a solo artist, I would just play with things myself or hire people to do things that I wanted them to do, but this time, a lot of it was all together as a band. [Guitarist and former Ladyhawk member] Darcy [Hancock]\u2019s guitar playing, I think, is just so important to what I do at this point, I don\u2019t know what I would do without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before this album, Burns was doing her thing as a solo artist. She says that she enjoyed working solo, as it gave her control, but she admits that juggling schedules with people who have other projects on the go can be tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t really anything hard about being a solo artist,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m a control freak and I really like to be the one who\u2019s making the decisions, so, obviously, I didn\u2019t really have any problems with that. I think the most challenging thing was making everyone\u2019s schedules work. I work with some really talented people who all have a lot of shit going on with their own projects, so it can be tough to juggle schedules, but we make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burns says that travelling the globe on tour has given her the chance to form some good connections and play to a variety of audiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started touring when I was 15, so I guess the whole \u2018seeing new places\u2019 in regards to Canada has kind of worn off. Having said that, there are now places that I feel really connected to and really enjoy going back to, which, honestly, is almost everywhere I go. I\u2019ll play anywhere\u2014I\u2019m going to Australia in November, and I really want to get back to Japan,\u201d she says. \u201cI tend to pick up shows in weird places, since it keeps things interesting for me; I\u2019ve played in China and Spain and even Germany. The audiences all are so different; I think a lot of artists that go to China, for instance, go as cover artists. So, since I don\u2019t really do covers, a lot of people didn\u2019t really know who I was, but they were still really polite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Louise Burns
\n8 pm Friday, October 20
\n$11, Lucky Bar
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Vancouver\u2019s Louise Burns says that once she started writing material for what would become her most recent album, she couldn\u2019t stop. The end result is Young Mopes, which came out in February and landed itself on the Polaris Prize long list earlier this year. But Burns admits now that even though it was easy to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-18-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14809,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806\/revisions\/14809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}