Things have been quiet for Melbourne dreamy pop band Crayon Fields since their 2009 album All The Pleasures Of The World. Front man Geoffrey O'Connor has kept busy with celebrated solo albums Vanity Is Forever and Fan Fiction, but after their third overseas tour in 2010, the band took a break that turned into more of a hiatus.Thankfully they are back with their third album No One Deserves You released through Chapter Music. O’Connor gifted us the new video for album track “Love Won't Save You” and had a chat to us about pop music and Tinder.Noisey: What did you learn from working on your solo albums that you were able to bring back to Crayon Fields?
Geoffrey O'Connor: Very little, which I think is a good thing. Many of these songs simply wouldn’t work in my solo set and vice-versa. I enjoy the limitations of working with a band, in that you write songs with the instruments and idiosyncrasies of the players in mind. They are all excellent musicians and it’s a real luxury to play with them. They’ve also become more handsome over the past few years. Good for them.The different colour channels give the video an almost dreamlike quality.
I was inspired to feature that effect prominently when I saw how great it made my skin look, I think the 2015 word for that is ‘skinspiration’. I like how it clones me in different colours, each of which could represent an aspect of my character. Each clone is slightly distorted, like a bad photocopy. Every great artist does this kind of thing at some point. Andy Warhol did it with ‘Triple Elvis’, Michael Keaton did it in Multiplicity and now we did it with this.The video shows you swiping through Tinder; do you think that the internet is a good place to look for love?
I think actively looking for love in general is the least effective way to find it, though it certainly is a lot of fun. Sometimes I worry that Tinder has become so ubiquitous that people will assume you are romantically unavailable if they have not seen you on there. The other sites don’t appeal to me at all, it would be like filling out a job application for a job you are ambivalent about. I like the impulsive aspect of Tinder, though perhaps ‘like’ is too strong a word.I used it briefly, though I spent more time looking at Humanitarians of Tinder than I did going on dates. It’s always much more enjoyable to use someone else’s Tinder profile anyway, so I think I’ll stick to that until there is another influx of straight-to-Tinder divorcees and Tinder needs me again.‘No One Deserves You’ is available now through Chapter Music.‘No One Deserves You’ album launches:
Nov 7 - Sydney at the Newtown Social
Nov 14 - Melbourne at Howler
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Geoffrey O'Connor: Very little, which I think is a good thing. Many of these songs simply wouldn’t work in my solo set and vice-versa. I enjoy the limitations of working with a band, in that you write songs with the instruments and idiosyncrasies of the players in mind. They are all excellent musicians and it’s a real luxury to play with them. They’ve also become more handsome over the past few years. Good for them.The different colour channels give the video an almost dreamlike quality.
I was inspired to feature that effect prominently when I saw how great it made my skin look, I think the 2015 word for that is ‘skinspiration’. I like how it clones me in different colours, each of which could represent an aspect of my character. Each clone is slightly distorted, like a bad photocopy. Every great artist does this kind of thing at some point. Andy Warhol did it with ‘Triple Elvis’, Michael Keaton did it in Multiplicity and now we did it with this.The video shows you swiping through Tinder; do you think that the internet is a good place to look for love?
I think actively looking for love in general is the least effective way to find it, though it certainly is a lot of fun. Sometimes I worry that Tinder has become so ubiquitous that people will assume you are romantically unavailable if they have not seen you on there. The other sites don’t appeal to me at all, it would be like filling out a job application for a job you are ambivalent about. I like the impulsive aspect of Tinder, though perhaps ‘like’ is too strong a word.I used it briefly, though I spent more time looking at Humanitarians of Tinder than I did going on dates. It’s always much more enjoyable to use someone else’s Tinder profile anyway, so I think I’ll stick to that until there is another influx of straight-to-Tinder divorcees and Tinder needs me again.‘No One Deserves You’ is available now through Chapter Music.‘No One Deserves You’ album launches:
Nov 7 - Sydney at the Newtown Social
Nov 14 - Melbourne at Howler