Jack Antonoff readily admits that the pandemic “drastically” affected the completion of Bleachers’ new album.
Ensconced in New York, he couldn’t go many places last year and started to worry if he would ever be able to play live again. Or at least the way he prefers a Bleachers concert to unfold with “everyone very sweaty and on top of each other.”
But the Grammy-winning super-producer (long ago of Fun.) who routinely bounces into new projects, whether with Taylor Swift, St. Vincent or Lorde, harnessed that worry and frustration – and, at some points, joy – and corralled his Bleachers bandmates into a room.