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Freeload/Q+A: Rusty Santos Talks About The Present + Get Weird

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Rusty Santos has recorded, mixed, mastered or produced some of our favorite music of the last five years: Animal Collective’s Sung Tongs; Born Ruffians’ Red, Yellow & Blue; Panda Bear’s Person Pitch; White Magic’s Day, Twilight, Night EP; and many, many more, including his own solo albums. So we were obviously pretty excited to hear the results of his new band The Present, with friends Jesse Lee and Mina. Those results are, unsurprisingly, both challenging and totally jamming. The Present’s World I See extracts all the weird details you didn’t even know you loved from the aforementioned albums and turns them into six songs that shift between spare piano twinkles, ambient noise experiments and hazy surf guitar, as evidenced in the eponymous track downloadable below. We are planning on listening to this record every time we need to clear the air this fall, but first, we wanted to talk to Rusty about how it went down and what he’s been up to. And since New York is the most synergistic city in the world, our former editor-in-chief, Alex Wagner, has booked The Present for tonight’s installment of the New Museum’s Get Weird series.

So read the interview, go Get Weird, and buy World I See when it comes out next month.

Download: The Present, “World I See”