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CHVRCHES and Robert Smith join Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to discuss their new collaboration “How Not To Drown”.
CHVRCHES tell Zane how the collaboration came to be, what it was like to work with one of their major musical influences, and the emotional experience of hearing Robert Smith on a CHVRCHES song.
Robert Smith talks to Zane about how he approaches collaborations, and provides an update on when fans can expect new music from The Cure.
Robert Smith Tells Apple Music About Collaborating With Other Artists Like CHVRCHES and Gorillaz…
I mean, I'm not quite sure now how many years I've... There's not that many over the years, but I think once you do one, people sort of think, "Ooh, hang on.” I went through a period of just listening to a lot of different kinds of music, and I was really intrigued by the idea of me trying something else without taking the band with me, just doing something. I've never liked the idea of doing things on my own, like a solo artist. I've always railed against it because I like the idea of a band. I think it kind of suits my character and it's much more comfortable to have... It's like, "Us against the world." That sort of mentality. I've never wanted to kind of step away from that. But as I got more confident, I suppose, maybe starting about 10 years ago, I just thought, "Well, rather than take the band with me whenever we do these kind of weird things..." I started doing some weird things. This isn't one of them, obviously. This is not a weird thing by any means. But yeah, it allows me just to kind of try other things. And I mean, I've only done things with people that I really like a lot. So, unfortunately, it's one of the hardest things saying no to people, because sometimes there are people send me stuff and I do really like it and I like them, but I think, "This isn't going to work.” I think the collaborations that I've done in the past, very few of them, I can't really think off the top of my head, have been collaborative in the sense that there's someone else singing with me. I think that's what made the difference. I mean, with Damon, he was just kind of burbling away in the background. I didn't know he was there. This is very different because, I mean, it's Lauren singing and then I'm kind of like... So it's more of a duet. It's a kind of old fashioned sort of way of doing things.