Tag: Megan Washington

Listened Batflowers from Wikipedia

Batflowers is the third studio album to be released by Australian singer-songwriter Megan Washington.

Washington’s new album feels like another example of what the current context makes possible. Where Charli XCX used what was available to capture the moment, Megan Washington uses the opportunity to release an album that she did not realise she could release. Like Thelma Plum, Washington scrapped a previous attempt unsatisfied.

Place between Bat for Lashes and DIANA.

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Washington embraces fun and fear, and a world tour from an Adelaide studio

Andrew Ford talks with Megan Washington about her new album.

Listened Washington embraces fun and fear, and a world tour from an Adelaide studio by Andrew Ford from The Music Show

Andrew, I enjoyed your conversation with Megan Washington about her new album, Batflowers.

Megan’s comments about fear and risk reminded me of something that Kevin Parker discussed in an interview with Zane Lowe. Parker spoke about intentional putting himself in challenging situations. As he stated:

I’m the most creative when I’m uncomfortable.

I was also intrigued by the conversation around versions and how the final vocal for Catherine Wheel came to be recorded on a phone. This had me thinking about something that was mentioned in the first episode of Prince: The Story of Sign O’ The Times. Lisa Coleman explained Prince’s thoughts on demos or experimenting:

Prince didn’t like the word “experiment” because he felt that it sounded like you weren’t finished if it was an experiment. So forgive me for calling them experiments, but I felt very experimental when I was playing.(source)

Because of this, everything went to tape. As Susan Rogers explains:

If he’s going to be playing and singing it’s going to go to tape and it’s going to be the canonical version as far as he is concerned. He didn’t demo things.(source)