Feelin Kinda Free Tracklist
Feelin Kinda Free is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band The Drones.
Frontman Gareth Liddiard says the title is aptly named “because we’re hippies now”
The record is really out there. We’ve recorded some pretty whacked out shit in the past but certain annoying factors have always gotten in the way of us going full throttle, in that respect. I think the fans who go for that whole guitar-and-songwriting schtick might get a shock.
Maybe not, I don’t know. But the people who like us for our weirdness and who know what we personally get into will think we’ve finally done what we were supposed to do.
The whole thing was to not have blues guitars in it.
I’d been listening to really old four-track tapes from the ‘90s that me and [former The Drones member] Rui [Periera] made, and they’re all totally bizarre, and actually really similar to this record.
It was almost as though having two guitars playing American-ish, country-ish, blues-ish guitars music – that was a stretch for us. We had to learn how to do that. But just being completely fucking weird is so natural.
I said to everyone “OK, I’m going to quit fucking music if I have to keep playing this fucking blues guitar.” It was a relief. Everyone was on side, everyone was cool.
