For the first time it feels like people have attempted to get inside my head an join me on this journey. All I ask is that if you are going to write about it, at least listen to it properly first, and that is the one thing I am most happy about with regards to reviews. So if that is the case, it really shouldn’t matter either way whether people like it or not. For the first time, I can honestly say I would not change a note on this record. The key for me this time round was to be entirely happy with the record I’d made no matter what. One can inflate your ego and turn you into an smug arse, the other can take you down a dark path to depression. PM: “Great reviews can be just as harmful as bad ones. How important is it for you for your work to be critically well received? Q: You have just released a new album – “Lodge” – its reception has been comprehensively favourable. So really, I was just trying to go back to who I was before.” I never used to make music that way, so why did I suddenly feel like my music had to be fulfilling a job description all of a sudden? So changing my name to ‘Lone Wolf’ started as a way to try and make something more ambiguous than just Paul Marshall, but it ended up being like a demon I had to please. All of a sudden after I got signed, I found I wasn’t really very comfortable making music within some kind of binding of ‘I really hope so and so likes it’ or forever asking myself ‘is this going to sell?’ ‘will people like this?’ etc. I used to be a guy who wrote music, went out and played it for a few people, really enjoyed it, then I’d make more music etc. PM: “Largely, I had had enough of being a part of ‘the wheel’. Q: You dropped the Lone Wolf moniker/project, but then returned to help stop the sale & subsequent conversion of The Lodge! Were you intending to drop out of music permanently or were you walking away from that musical persona? I’d just rather be known as Paul Marshall, and each work be described as what it is, rather than try to nail me to a genre/stereotype.” I am indeed a singer-songwriter in the most obvious sense, however I feel like there is a grey area in which ‘singer-songwriter’ translates to ‘folk’ very easily. I feel like just because the first album I ever made was acoustic, I have then forever been carrying the ‘folk’ pigeonhole on my back, and I do not feel that is an accurate representation of who I am, especially if you listen to ‘The Lovers’ for example. You sing and you write your own songs, so why do you feel that you are not a “singer-songwriter”? Is that a push against being labelled / boxed in? Q: I notice on your Twitter blurb – Not a ‘ singer-songwriter’. It is an intriguing start to the journey of “Lodge”. ![]() ![]() It is electrifying in it’s complex simplicity – complex of feeling, simple of language, full of space, sparse of sound and yet not. “Will the wilderness fall asleep, if I speak? I’ve been waiting for you to come, and hold me, in your leafy arms, but I’m frightened by your love”
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