Sofi Tukker Discuss New Album, ‘WET TENNIS’ and World Tour [Interview]

Sofi Tukker are again & taking 2022 by storm with new & thrilling music to grace our ears and the extremely anticipated announcement of their incoming full studio album WET TENNIS dropping April twenty ninth. The primary releases to the WET TENNIS album embrace the tremendous danceable and extremely catchy, ‘Unique Sin’ and now their most up-to-date collaboration with Mahmut Orhan, ‘Forgive Me’ that includes emotional violin melodies & darkish mysterious tones. With a sonically various and color exploding album on the horizon and an enormous US/European tour going down this summer season, we had a second to meet up with these two tremendous proficient musicians. A singular alternative to listen to what they’ve been as much as and dive into the deeper particulars for this subsequent thrilling chapter into their blossoming musical catalogue.

First inform us a bit of backstory behind the most recent monitor ‘Unique Sin’ and its inspiration and creation?

We wrote authentic sin in the course of the pandemic. We realized that for us and for lots of people who have been caught inside throughout quarantine, we regularly took out our frustration and anxiousness concerning the world on the folks we love probably the most. We have been making all kinds of errors, not as a result of there’s something inherently flawed with us however as a result of we have been residing via a troubled time. It’s a music about having grace with ourselves. Remembering that we aren’t born sinners. We don’t need to repent. And we don’t need to apologize for our wishes. We’re merely a bunch of freaks attempting our greatest.

Unique sin options an unbelievable music video that includes lush nature, fluorescent tennis gear and highly effective color schemes, the place do you guys draw inventive concepts to your music movies and the way does this course of go about? Do you might have sure inventive buddies which direct and assist with these movies? How a lot inventive collaboration with different artists takes place in your movies?

We had an unbelievable crew of inventive collaborators and buddies for this video. We first got here up with the idea collectively in a room with our inventive director for the undertaking, Amber Park, and our stylist, designer Johnny Wujek. We then introduced on the genius Aerin Moreno, who’s the director for the video. We knew we wished the video to be just like the backyard of eden of the Moist Tennis world. And we knew we wished to be carrying tremendous colourful brilliant tennis outfits. It happened from a whole lot of conversations, and pictures and concepts bouncing forwards and backwards between us all. It took us some time to nail the video, truly. The video took us some time to excellent as a result of we wished to seek out the right steadiness between the Moist Tennis world and aesthetic and in addition staying true to the lyrics and vibe of Unique Sin.

We love the WET TENNIS acronym for the LP: When Everybody Tries to Evolve, Nothing Unfavourable Is Protected. This sounds prefer it has a deeply acutely aware which means behind it, are you able to guys inform extra concerning the private religious, emotional or acutely aware journey that has impressed such a strong message?

Through the pandemic, day-after-day we have been confronted with a selection: both we will let this cripple us, let this make us unhappy and depressed and anxious… or we will profit from it. We will dance it out in neighborhood. We will pour ourselves into DJing and constructing the freak fam. Whereas detrimental issues are certain to occur, we’ve a option to not get caught in it. We have been so impressed by the freak fam, the neighborhood of those who joined us each single day for our livestream units, and their capability for positivity and optimism. Loads of the music comes from this place, too. We wished the album to really feel and sound enjoyable and brilliant, however beneath that’s a whole lot of acutely aware selection and intention.

What sorts of sound design, manufacturing and varieties of tracks can we anticipate for the remainder of the WET TENNIS Album?

We wrote a LOT of music throughout the pandemic however we deliberately put the songs on the album that general felt actually optimistic and hopeful. If we’ve a extra introspective moody monitor on the album, then it’s all the time adopted by a brilliant dance occasion monitor. Now we have some extra acoustic model tracks on it and a whole lot of home music. We have been impressed by DJing day-after-day and there’s a bunch of nods to the freak fam all through. There are a pair collaborations however principally it’s simply the venn diagram of each of our brains bouncing concepts and sounds forwards and backwards.

It’s so thrilling to see the WET TENNIS reside present hitting the US, Europe Canada and Australia,  what recommendation would you need to keep so recent on tour, retaining your private vitality excessive and to thriving with tour life calls for?

We work actually onerous to thrive on tour. We deal with ourselves like skilled athletes. Earlier than every present, we spend an hour and a half warming up and understanding — and we all the time calm down, stretch and ice after the exhibits. We ensure to sleep and nap as a lot as we will, Soph is sober, and we keep maintaining a healthy diet. Our rider is principally vegatables and fruits and this tour we’re gonna deliver an air fryer on the tour bus :). Gotta keep recent to placed on the absolute best present each evening!

We completely cherished ‘The Freak Farm’ livestream expertise which has continued to be such a tremendous expertise all through lockdown and past connecting folks for the love of your music and creating deeper connection throughout such a tough time, what have been your best private takeaways from this expertise? How did this alteration you guys as folks? Did it change your conceptions of how one can join with followers in another way?

The freak fam appears like a miracle. We went via what may have been the worst and loneliest time of our lives, and as an alternative it was stuffed with neighborhood. We had by no means felt so linked to folks all world wide. Everybody actually grew to become like household. We have been there for one another, and proceed to be now, via a lot hardship and life adjustments. Whereas earlier than the pandemic, folks would collect at our exhibits, and possibly make a pal or two, folks linked day after day, actually attending to know one another–and never simply in particular cities. It actually grew to become a world neighborhood. We now actually perceive the facility of consistency, and the facility of a collective in lifting one another up.

We’re simply nonetheless originally of 2022 which is hopefully going to be a brand new yr and a break from the pandemic narrative, would you guys share with us some private objectives you might have for this yr or possibly even some new resolutions and whether or not you might be retaining to them?

Now we have so many objectives for this yr! We’re going to be touring the world and being with folks in particular person, however we need to ensure to keep up the web reference to the freak fam. We need to placed on the absolute best present each evening, and actually placed on probably the most distinctive present, in contrast to any we’ve ever seen or heard of. It’s half reside present–half recreation. It’s tremendous participatory and we wish everybody to depart that evening saying, wow that was top-of-the-line nights of my life. I felt so linked and joyful and alive.

With the music panorama altering so drastically for the reason that pandemic what recommendation would you guys have for producers, artists or duos on the market now which are pushing to interrupt their music to an even bigger viewers?

This recommendation has remained the identical all through our complete profession and we all the time try to take our personal recommendation: make music you’re keen on. Don’t make music for some imaginary listener or some imaginary concept of what you suppose folks may like. Make music that you just genuinely need to hearken to and could be thrilled to play on stage evening after evening for the remainder of time.

What could be your message of inspiration for the freak fam and music lovers for 2022?

The acronym for our album: When everybody tries to evolve nothing detrimental is secure. Know that you just all the time have a selection. Shit is gonna occur. You’ll be able to both develop and evolve from it–or not. There are folks on the market who’re right here to assist you and imagine in you. There are different freaks right here to make you are feeling much less alone in that course of, who will encourage you and maintain you accountable to creating all of life really feel like a progress alternative.