Emily A. Sprague may be best known as the primary songwriter and vocalist for the band Florist, who have released five albums since 2016. But she also composes and records ambient-adjacent electronic music, primarily using modular synthesizers, and is about to release her fourth instrumental album, Cloud Time. I'm a big fan of her music, and we had chatted previously about our shared love for surfing, so I wanted to talk more about her process...
Interviews
Robert Lang
By Geoff Stanfield and Larry Crane
"They said that the little man couldn't do it. 'Oh, you can't dig 35 feet below your home.' But I did it, one step at a time, man." Thus began our conversation with Robert Lang. Outside of Seattle – in Shoreline, Washington – there's an iconic recording space built into the side of hill that's been around since 1974. It's called Robert Lang Studios. Seattle artists such as Foo Fighters, Sky Cries Mary, Alice in Chains, Tad, The Posies, MxPx, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mark Lanegan, Death Cab for Cutie, Harvey Danger, Queensrÿche, and Sir Mix-A-Lot have all worked here, not to mention that it was the site of Nirvana's final recordings. The Wedding Present, Mastodon, Portugal. The Man, The Afghan Whigs, Peter Frampton, and so many others have come to work there as well. For years, I was curious as to this studio's origin and how this underground marvel could have come to exist. Geoff Stanfield and...
