The Summer of Muna
In the landscape of modern artists, who meet the pressure of maintaining attention spans and streaming numbers with constant content, Muna are trying to stay old school. “There are some people who are total maximalists who just put out a ton of music and in that, inevitably there will be genius and moments of transcendence and you inundate the market with your music,” Naomi McPherson says. ”That’s just what’s expected of contemporary artists because you need to keep your streaming numbers up so that you get a check in the mail every couple of months to be able to live your life. But yeah, we’re just a little old school, I guess, of wanting to make bodies of work that tell a story and capture a moment in time.” The band, composed of McPherson, Katie Gavin and Josette Maskin, released their fourth studio album, “Dancing on the Wall,” in May. One of the differences in the making of the new record was that the band built a proper studio space for the first time, rather than working out of their basements (or a friend’s basement, or “some nook in someone’s house”). “It kind of was a natural progression of also what’s good forFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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