Interview: Lockett Pundt of Lotus Plaza/Deerhunter

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Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt is making his live solo debut this Tues. night when Lotus Plaza opens for the Books at Eyedrum.-

Chad Radford:  Tell me about how the Lotus Plaza album, The Floodlight Collective came together and what you had in mind as you going in to it?-

Lockett Pundt: I didn't really have a whole lot in mind when I sat down to write the songs on the album. I have a hard time getting things done when I have something specific in mind in regards to song writing. Most of them were just a simple idea that sort of blossomed into a song. They all sort of have their own environment. I would go into a song with a guitar loop or drum track and it would either take off, or nothing would come of it. I think the only song in which I had a very clear view of how I wanted it to sound was "Antoine." I had a Joe Meek sample that I played at a few different speeds creating this crazy out of phase percussive thing and I heard the song from the beginning. Other than that, I just had fun writing songs and had enough to put together an album.-

Did you write the songs on the album on your own or was it a group effort that involved anyone else?-

I did everything myself. Brad Cox plays drums on "Different Mirrors." He thought it might sound better adding drums over the drum loop in the song and he added it on the first take. I thought it sounded great.-

How did you approach it differently from a Deerhunter record?-

I write a lot more lyrics myself, which I don't do all that much in Deerhunter. I tend to write more personal I suppose. I never really try to write a song either way, I think it just sort of happens that one is a better Deerhunter song than one I would use personally. In my songs, I definitely like the parts and instrumentation to remain as how they are, but with songs that are introduced to Deerhunter, I like the guys to write their own parts or do them how they would. That's the main difference in the approach to me.