\u201cWorking in kitchens as a teenager you\u2019re exposed to all sorts of classic rock, you know, Queen, Bowie, The Beatles, The Beach Boys and AC\/DC, all the \u201990s stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cSo, I mean, it was just kind of like a collection of music that really turned me on to rock and roll in general. When you\u2019re hearing these songs that are now obviously ubiquitous, like when you hear \u2018Stairway to Heaven\u2019 for the first time and it kind of melts your brain. The musical discovery when you\u2019re a teenager, discovering this treasure trove for the first time, and all these like, amazing compositions, you know, what an incredible mind-bending experience, it\u2019s like coming-of-age stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n Art believes that his sound is ever changing as he grows and shifts as an artist. He describes his music as an amalgamation of genres.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a pastiche of new-wave glam, new romantic, post-punk psychedelia, krautrock. You know, there\u2019s obviously some straight up, I guess… \u201970s and \u201980s [sounds] and all the subgenres within, like, if you throw all those in a blender that\u2019s kind of my sound to date,\u201d said Art. \u201cI\u2019ve been obsessed with jazz and pop music that uses interesting chord phrases and chord combinations that are a little bit more complex than just minor-major. I\u2019m really going deep into trying to find a way to bring in these esoteric, sort of compositional sound themes of expression and weaving them into a pop blanket.\u201d<\/p>\n Art says that \u201cMidlife Crisis\u201d is one of the most meaningful songs to him on After the Headrush<\/i>. He says that he uses an unexpected ending in that song to encapsulate the human emotion behind a midlife crisis.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s some lyrics that are quite self-referential,\u201d says Art. \u201cInstead of the song ending when it should, I thought it\u2019d be funny to kind of add a coda, add a two-minute jam out to it where it gradually speeds up, which sort of personifies the anxiety and mounting pressure of a midlife crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n While creating this album and even newer songs, Art has a method that involves movement and getting out of the house, so if you bump into him on the streets and he seems stern, don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s all about the creative process.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I\u2019m writing I\u2019ll go and run and listen to the work in progress… It will, oddly, spark some crazy creativity,\u201d said Art. \u201cWhen meditating on a song it\u2019s in the form of listening to it on a walk, listening to it on our drives, or a bike ride. If you ever see me walking with a very tense expression on my face, there\u2019s, like, a Rubik\u2019s cube of chord progressions and melodies circulating in my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PHOTO-4-ELIJAH-SCHULTZ-CREDIT.jpg\")
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