Episode 46 - Close Talker

Close Talker are a trio (made up of Will Quiring, Matthew
Kopperud, and Christopher Morien) from Saskatoon who
trade in tightly arranged indie pop full of start-stop tension
and well crafted sounds. After releasing an album and an EP in
2013, they worked with Jace Lasek on their second album Flux and
then decamped to Regina in Winter to work with Royal Canoe's Matt
Peters on their third full-length release Lens, which came
out this past April. 


 


We gathered in the gallery at the Saskatoon Public Library to
talk about middle names, elementary school altercations, hockey
card manipulation, their origins in Oh Victoria and as a wedding
band, their contentious cover of "Fox on the Run", the evolution
of songs from demo to done, the impact of doing music full-time
on day-to-day life and relationships, coming up with ideas
through jamming, the thin line between prog rock and R&B (it
seems), recording in January - in Regina - and the effect of the
season on their sound, the rigors of touring, Cracked Pepper
Spitz as fuel, @wokeuplikechris, the "meal in Zwolle" and other
notable tour meals, grooming and the taboo of a moustache, the
process of writing new songs, Matt's weird memory (there are
Fargo quotes), and more. 

Song -  "Hold Up, Rewind"


Close Talker on
Bandcamp: https://closetalkerband.bandcamp.com


Their website: http://closetalker.ca/