Amber Arcades - aka Dutch-born musician Annelotte De Graaf - spills the beans on her new EP '
Cannonball', out this June. Recorded in New York, it sees her team up with Bill Ryder-Jones for a track ('
Wouldn't Even Know'), and reflect on relationships of the past, providing a kick-off point for her upcoming full-length.
Hey Annelotte, how are you today?
I'm good! Just waiting around in the backstage in Vera (awesome legendary venue in Groningen, the Netherlands) till we can start sound checking… Tonight is the first show of our joint Dutch tour with Moss, should be fun!
You've a new EP due – what's ‘Cannonball' about?
It is a collection of songs that reflect on the nature of romantic relationships as I've experienced them over the last couple of years. The push and pull, growing away from and towards each other again at different times. The things I seek in them and project on them.
How did you decide what you wanted to include on the release?
I had a couple of new songs finished when we went on tour in the US last September. We ended up having some days off in New York so I thought it would be great timing to work with Ben Greenberg again in the studio. We basically recorded the songs I had finished at that moment, and I was kind of thinking to wait with releasing them, write some more songs and record them and then to make a full-length record out of it. But it turned out these songs matched up really well, and I felt like they were a complete unit already, both musically and lyrically. Plus I liked the idea of being able to start from scratch again for the full-length and to be able to explore some new themes in that again.
