We're just gonna have to hear these songs, pick our first impressions and see what it sounds like when we play them with spirit and joy.” And that, he says, is what they did. And Wilson recalls thinking, “We don't need to work hard to recapture anything, either. When the three got together to record You’re Not Alone, they kept that in mind.
I didn't need to feel like I want to prove anything.” He says that when he and his bandmates get together to play, that’s what Semisonic sounds like.
“So I didn't have any hunger for updating Semisonic. “I feel like I'm as updated as I want to be,” Wilson says. Wilson says that as he discussed the future with Slichter and Munson, “there was an unanswered question floating over us: ‘How are we going to update our sound?’”īut they didn’t labor too long over the idea. And that idea hung over Wilson and his bandmates as they contemplated the group’s reactivation. When listeners hear new songs like the soaring title track and the riffing “Basement Tapes,” they may find themselves thinking that Semisonic has picked up right where it left off in 2001. “They’re songs that I love and I think are really, really special,” Wilson says, “but they just didn't rock the way these songs do.” “The 10, 11 and 12 tracks are good,” he says, but “they didn't hang together the way the central five did.” And some of the other songs lacked another qualitry common to many of Semisonic’s best tunes. “I realized that it's okay to do that.”īut with 20 songs written – and at least 14 of those recorded – why isn’t Semisonic releasing a full album instead of an EP? Wilson offers multiple reasons. “And when I was writing songs for Semisonic, I realized that I didn't really have to work too hard at that,” he says. We were much more like flower children,” he admits with a laugh. We never were portraying someone who was cooped up in their basement, full of anger. “Semisonic never did that we never sounded like that.” Instead, he suggests, his band displayed “a hopeful quality and kind of an openness. “That father-hating, lonely vengeance, dreams of glory vibe,” he says. Wilson chuckles as he summarizes the defining characteristics of grunge, the rock style du jour at the time Semisonic debuted.
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