Chromeo – Adult Contemporary LP

A big thing for us is to always be true to ourselves and where we’re in life at the moment when we make a record
Now let me explain further
Our second album ‘Fancy Footwork‘ was created at the height of the bloghouse era while 2014 LP ‘White Woman‘ was us in bridal mode, celebrating our 10-year milestone as a duo making them “basically married”.Fast forward another 10 years, and we’re in our ‘Adult Contemporary’ phase. It had to be something a little more slick and mature and the subject matter had to reflect that which is where we are currently at in our livesNow, it’s like ‘OK, how can you reconcile the funk, fun, dance, lighthearted music with real issues that have to do with adult relationships?’ That became the brief on this album.

I feel like we’re all reckoning with what it really means to enter actual adulthood, and how to navigate that. The question we asked ourselves while creating this record was ‘How do you stay funky in your 30s and 40s while navigating these real-life situations ?

Also, ‘Adult Contemporary’ is such a funny album title. I don’t know if this is my best album but is this really our best album title. That’s for sure!

On this album, P and I we’re like, ‘Let’s take it back to the days of being your mom’s basement, let’s just do everything ourselves and go back to how we used to do it’

I was able to find my voice again but it’s different now because I’m more comfortable singing and I’ve had more experience. What came out of that were just these songs about relationship topics that people our age deal with.

I realised that if you can be sincere and funny, at the same time or sincere and cheeky at the same time, that’s really the challenge

Being funny for the sake of being funny and ironic? that’s corny. Being fake sincere or a tear-jerker, it’s like,’Yo, who are you bro?’ Like, look at the world we live in. The goal is to strike that balance. You always have that duality and I feel like we really cultivated that with this album