Peter Björn and John on Trying to Make the 'Perfect Album'
Between individual side projects, multiple artist collaborations and the creation of their own record label/artist collective, Swedish trio Peter Björn and John have kept plenty busy in the five years between the release of 2011's Gimme Some and their seventh LP Breakin' Point last month.
Now with an extensive album tour underway, the three have made their way to Australia for the much-anticipated Splendour in the Grass music festival, along with a pair of sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. We caught up with John on what it's been like sharing creative spaces with other artists and crafting the band's bold new sound.
It seems like you guys have set aside your guitars a bit and are more focused on making a studio-produced pop album... what inspired this transition? We smashed every electric guitar on our last tour so all that was left was some vintage keyboards and a tambourine. So we bought three cheap acoustic guitars and sat down in a small room and started to write songs like 3 singer songwriters. The main focus was to write classic pop songs that would...