Nickel Creek took a nine-year break between albums. Sara Watkins talked to nprmusic about why the band needed to “let it rest” — and its return album, ‘Celebrants.’
To your point, do you have a sense of what each of your perspectives brings to the band? Do you feel that you each have a kind of role, in any sense?We don't really think about it. Our perspectives are built in. We realize it's a rare thing. We know it's there and the joy that happens and that we all feel when we come together, that's the fuel.or something — people take turns on watch; there are all of these roles and you cycle in and out.
At the top of our conversation, you all noted how the pandemic afforded you the time to make this record. I could hear inklings of the pandemic lyrically on the album, too, in songs like"Holding Pattern" and"To the Airport," woven into this broader meditation on human connection. Does the idea of the pandemic creeping into the LP resonate at all?One of those [songs]? Absolutely. The other one? Absolutely not.
It sounds like there's so much letting go involved. You let go of an individual idea to the group, let go of revising when it's time to record, then fully let go once the music is released. It's not yours anymore.The letting go process was ongoing on this album, I think, because of the sequencing that we wanted to hold true to. We tried to be open to adjusting anything until we recorded it. We were open to reconsidering lyrics.
That openness you're talking about — has that always been part of the spirit of the band? Is it something that has grown stronger with time and age?We've never really had the time to be able to do that. But also, yeah, I think personally, as you grow up, you learn to hold loosely to your ideas. As you get older, you can kind of keep your ego more in check and not identify so much with your ideas.
A pair of songs I kept thinking about were"Goddamned Saint" and"Goddamned Saint, Reprise." The first track tells this story of one's world being made larger by music, but then veers into darker territory that mirrors today's political climate. Its reprisal seems to retain that darkness, but then takes a turn for the light when the narrator passes the torch to a younger generation.That one started with just that little soaring melody.
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