INT: I awakened yesterday singing The Narcissist. Do you have got any sort of method or tips for making something go down easily?
Damon: Nicely how’s that music 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 advised you I wasn’t feeling properly’ (laughs) It’s the enjoyment and unhappiness of life. That remaining 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 importance of the title of the album?
Damon: Darren is a good friend of everyone in the band. He represents all of us. Darren is everyman.
INT: Properly… did he undergo one thing considerably just lately?
Damon: Nicely all of us undergo vital things. Clearly as I wrote the songs I assume I went via some vital things as properly. I'm a licensed sad-55-years-old. I’m not afraid of unhappiness you realize.
INT: Is there an general emotional framework to the album?
Damon: I feel once they catch you sure songs will play together with your emotions fairly heavely. Songs like The Everglades will snap individuals on the face at one level.
INT: Do you have got any type of trepidation about writing weak lyrics or exposing yourself?
Damon: I suppose that in many ways this (document) 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 make it easier to to know your emotions or speak about it?
Damon: Sure however I don’t wish to make it all about myself. I exploit the place I am in my life and how I feel to speak about different issues typically.

By way of Damaged Document podcast. 2023.