INT: I awakened yesterday singing The Narcissist. Do you will have any type of formulation or tips for making something go down easily?
Damon: Nicely how’s that track on My Truthful Woman? “a spoonful of sugar helps the drugs go down”
INT: The sugar include the melody?
Damon: I don’t know. It’s definitely not on the lyrics, the lyrics are not often uplifting. Spike Milligan was an excellent comic author and on his grave stone he had inscribed ‘I informed you I wasn’t feeling properly’ (laughs) It’s the joy and unhappiness of life. That ultimate victory that makes individuals chuckle. And that’s sort of the essence of melancholy: the belief that you're dying your greatest life.
INT: What’s the significance of the title of the album?
Damon: Darren is a good friend of everyone within the band. He represents all of us. Darren is everyman.
INT: Properly… did he undergo one thing significantly just lately?
Damon: Properly all of us go through vital issues. Clearly as I wrote the songs I assume I went via some vital things as nicely. I'm a licensed sad-55-years-old. I’m not afraid of unhappiness you already know.
INT: Is there an general emotional framework to the album?
Damon: I feel once they catch you sure songs will play together with your feelings quite heavely. Songs like The Everglades will snap individuals on the face at one point.
INT: Do you've gotten any type of trepidation about writing weak lyrics or exposing your self?
Damon: I suppose that in some ways this (report) is my weak. Vulnerability… by singing about it you’re someway easing it. The vulnerability is diminished by your potential to precise it.
INT: Writing songs… does it assist you to to know your feelings or speak about it?
Damon: Sure but I don’t wish to make all of it about myself. I exploit the place I am in my life and the way I feel to talk about other things typically.
By way of Damaged Report podcast. 2023.
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