If you think about it this will most likely be the last song before the album. After this song there's only 3 weeks left!
And then we still have 9 new ones left. I like getting the songs and each time she's dropped one they've received rave reviews and its building hype for her album.
The difference between this and Goddess release is that after all the promo singles, only 6 (7 in the Deluxe E.) songs were new out of 15 (18) (). We had Brain, Drowning, Beggin' For Thread and Goddess + ALL the tracks from the EPs released years before.
This time there isn't any EP track and although the tracklist is not very long, we still have more songs to listen. Plus, all the songs are new so the experience won't be that weird this time.
Any idea about what song will be released if it's true? She has been talking about Mother Earth recently or maybe the track with the puzzle line
The difference between this and Goddess release is that after all the promo singles, only 6 (7 in the Deluxe E.) songs were new out of 15 (18) (). We had Brain, Drowning, Beggin' For Thread and Goddess + ALL the tracks from the EPs released years before.
This time there isn't any EP track and although the tracklist is not very long, we still have more songs to listen. Plus, all the songs are new so the experience won't be that weird this time.
Any idea about what song will be released if it's true? She has been talking about Mother Earth recently or maybe the track with the puzzle line
Very much agree. These newly released songs for the Altar will not impact my listening like Goddess did.
The difference between this and Goddess release is that after all the promo singles, only 6 (7 in the Deluxe E.) songs were new out of 15 (18) (). We had Brain, Drowning, Beggin' For Thread and Goddess + ALL the tracks from the EPs released years before.
This time there isn't any EP track and although the tracklist is not very long, we still have more songs to listen. Plus, all the songs are new so the experience won't be that weird this time.
Any idea about what song will be released if it's true? She has been talking about Mother Earth recently or maybe the track with the puzzle line
She gave a new interview and talked about To The Hilt:
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BANKS’s sophomore record is a gripping artistic experience. Stretching past the seduction of 2014’s Goddess, BANKS explores a quietly explosive tension with The Altar. In a fury of songwriting, she laid her fears, doubts and contemplations on the altar to be confronted, shed and reincarnated. Another cocoon to crawl out of and observe as the past. Another body of work that reflects her signature sound of shadowy electronic soundscapes. That lingering darkness woven into all of BANKS’s songs is at the forefront of The Altar from the disarming chorus of “**** With Myself” to the vulnerability of the closing track “To The Hilt”. Her raw, fearlessly unguarded lyrics are the backbone of her albums and what her listeners clutch to. She is this generation’s model of a female songwriter who embraces her pain and transforms it into poetic melodies that mean something. But her fearless and unguarded lyrical approach is a stark contrast to Jillian Rose Banks in person. Jillian is soft-spoken, humble, genuine, shy and a self-proclaimed highly sensitive person. She gives off a sweet, approachable energy while quietly, her guard is up, protecting her emotions that ripple under the surface.
The last song on the record, “To The Hilt”, reminded me of a secret song. Like back in the ’90s when people used to do secret songs on their albums so that the last track finishes and you think the album is done and then, out of the quiet, an unlisted song starts playing. And usually scares the hell out of you [laughs]. It kind of reminded me of that because it’s the last thing you hear of the album, it’s the only song with just piano and vocals for instrumentation, and it’s so vulnerable.
B: That’s so cool, I like that. A secret song. It is special to me, that song. It’s sacred to me. It just feels… [pause] It felt like it needed to be the last thing you heard from me. It’s a bit gentle. It also doesn’t fit in between songs. It needs space because it’s so emotional. It needs time to breathe and to be digested.
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It’s funny that you went there with that response because I was going to ask you about how you’ve mentioned that performing requires you to give all of your energy to the audience and I wanted to ask you what you go through afterwards, so that’s really interesting that you just brought that up! I also wanted to ask you about the song “Mind Games” because you’ve said that writing that song was an important step in making the album and also that it made you feel exposed. Can you talk about that song?
B: Yeah, it was like one of those memories that you can look back on and know that it was an important day, it was like a benchmark of a time. The day that I wrote “Mind Games”, oh my god, I was so happy. The melody just made me so happy and I knew that it was going to be on the album. The verses felt like they came from one certain perspective and then on the chorus I went to this new perspective. It felt really exciting because it’s like, I dare you to see me now. I can’t put my finger on why, exactly, it’s just everything about making it was just a special day. It’s funny because my sister loves when I send her songs that I just started. “Mind Games” is her favourite song on the album. She’s not remotely in the music business whatsoever so she doesn’t really know how anything works, and to be honest, neither do I, at all, it’s all so strange, but she would say, “When is ‘Mind Games’ coming out? When is ‘Mind Games’ coming out? When is ‘Mind Games’ coming out?!” [laughs] She loves that song.
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It’s funny that you went there with that response because I was going to ask you about how you’ve mentioned that performing requires you to give all of your energy to the audience and I wanted to ask you what you go through afterwards, so that’s really interesting that you just brought that up! I also wanted to ask you about the song “Mind Games” because you’ve said that writing that song was an important step in making the album and also that it made you feel exposed. Can you talk about that song?
B: Yeah, it was like one of those memories that you can look back on and know that it was an important day, it was like a benchmark of a time. The day that I wrote “Mind Games”, oh my god, I was so happy. The melody just made me so happy and I knew that it was going to be on the album. The verses felt like they came from one certain perspective and then on the chorus I went to this new perspective. It felt really exciting because it’s like, I dare you to see me now. I can’t put my finger on why, exactly, it’s just everything about making it was just a special day. It’s funny because my sister loves when I send her songs that I just started. “Mind Games” is her favourite song on the album. She’s not remotely in the music business whatsoever so she doesn’t really know how anything works, and to be honest, neither do I, at all, it’s all so strange, but she would say, “When is ‘Mind Games’ coming out? When is ‘Mind Games’ coming out? When is ‘Mind Games’ coming out?!” [laughs] She loves that song.
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That’s awesome! There are so many good songs on The Altar! I really like “Weaker Girl” a lot, I think that’s my favourite. That’s going to be my new song for when I need to feel empowered.
B: Oh GOOD! That makes me really happy. That’s like, my heart. Can you imagine? At shows?! Like, everyone singing, “IMMA NEED A BAD MOTHER****ER LIKE ME!” When I wrote that, that’s all I was thinking was, I’m just going to hold the mic out and have everyone sing.
). We had Brain, Drowning, Beggin' For Thread and Goddess + ALL the tracks from the EPs released years before.
