Odawas: Blue Depths
Odawas have finished their next album, Blue Depths. Aiming for a release late this year through Jagjaguwar, Blue Depths is the first Odawas album to only involve Michael Tapscott and Isaac Edwards. The new album will take Odawas into a more ambient direction.
Michael Tapscott shared with Puddlegum about Blue Depths and the influences leading up to the new album:
We tried releasing and promoting Raven and the White Night in a different way than is usually done and the result was very positive, so hopefully we can keep some ingenuity in the process again.
As far as it being different from the last record, I don’t want to be one of those artists who says that it is a big change in direction and then the album comes out and it sounds pretty similar to the last. I feel like it is a different sound, it is the first time Isaac [Edwards] and I worked alone, and it was a lot of fun to make. I played a lot of keyboards which is a bit of a first…
We were influenced a lot by The Blue Nile, Eno‘s After The Heat album and Stars of the Lid, trying to find the connections between ambient and pop. In a way, I think the Blue Depths is the first step in this direction, and hopefully each album is merely a stepping stone and learning experience for the masterwork to be finished the day before I die, a long time into the future.