I met Jack three or four years ago, I met Wave seven years ago, Dew tells EW.
We made a bunch of tracks that just resonated and realized we had an album.
Me and Kendrick are very intense people in the studio.
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We want everything to be perfect.
But with this, it just flowed smooth.
In a totally non-cynical way I usually feel the opposite, like the lights getting sucked out of me.
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It was a documentary of a period of time and a group of people.
It means a lot to me that this album is the sound of three friends.
That feeling is in the sound New Jersey music is one of serious melancholy and serious hope connected.
This cant be it.
There has to be something bigger and we have to find it.'
Thats always been ingrained in Antonoffs music, but never more so than with Red Hearse.
Everything is really bold and really sad, he says.
I feel like its cheating to be in music and come from Chicago, he says with a laugh.
Sounwave credits growing up in Compton with finding his sound as a producer.
Its real and hard and raw, and thats in everything I do.
I was the only producer in the whole school, he says.
Things I would never do, Jack would do, and vice versa.
If I do something and it sparks Jacks idea and that sparks Sam to do a crazy harmony.
Sounwaves Compton background is what brings the dirtier aspects to Red Hearses music.
Theres a lot of sandpaper because of our sonic differences and different sensibilities.
The idea that we come from different musical backgrounds is probably the only reason why this thing works.
Red Hearse comes out Aug. 16.
