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Episode 46 - Close Talker
Close Talker are a trio (made up of Will Quiring, Matthew Kopperud, and Christopher Morien) from Saskatoon who trade in tightly arranged indie pop full of start-stop tension and well crafted sounds. After releasing an album and an EP in 2013, they worked with Jace Lasek on their second album Flux and then decamped to Regina in Winter to work with Royal Canoe's Matt Peters on their third full-length release Lens, which came out this past April.
We gathered in the gallery at the Saskatoon Public Library to talk about middle names, elementary school altercations, hockey card manipulation, their origins in Oh Victoria and as a wedding band, their contentious cover of "Fox on the Run", the evolution of songs from demo to done, the impact of doing music full-time on day-to-day life and relationships, coming up with ideas through jamming, the thin line between prog rock and R&B (it seems), recording in January - in Regina - and the effect of the season on their sound, the rigors of touring, Cracked Pepper Spitz as fuel, @wokeuplikechris, the "meal in Zwolle" and other notable tour meals, grooming and the taboo of a moustache, the process of writing new songs, Matt's weird memory (there are Fargo quotes), and more.
Song - "Hold Up, Rewind"
Close Talker on Bandcamp: https://closetalkerband.bandcamp.com
Their website: http://closetalker.ca/