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different story. Days Gone By introdu- ced their brooding grooves, Battle Lines carried the weight of rock and guitars, Desire stretched into conceptual club territory, and The Silence in Between reflected the heaviness of a world on pause. With BLINK the question was inevitable: is this the next step in a lineage, or a reset altogether?
Tom: “I think each album is innately a continuation of the journey, an evolu- tion. BLINK feels like our freest album yet, our most mature. We are more con- fident in who we are and what we want to be, and we are comfortable there. Not comfortable in a lazy sense, but in a sense of confidence. I feel like we really got out of our own way and didn’t overthink this one. We let ourselves be very free in the making of it, and we also took what we learned from the previous steps of the journey. The lyrics are very honest, very direct, and really personal. They’ve always been that way, but this new chapter of life has given us a new perspective on life, on music, and on how much we love making it and are grateful to be able to do it.”
Jimmy: “If anything, this record felt more focused. We knew we wanted to make things for the dance floor, but also that felt very musical and song orien- ted. In the past we might have thought of those as separate, but this time we felt like, no, this goes together and this is who we are. That’s the confidence Tom spoke about. BLINK is us realizing that we’re on this beautiful journey, and we want to soak it all up and enjoy it as much as we possibly can. We’re super proud of the record and can’t wait for the world to hear it.”
Part of that confidence came from learning how to collaborate with inten- tion. What began tentatively on earlier projects became a sharper tool during The Silence in Between, and now feels integral to their creative process.
Jimmy: “It feels like we really learned how to collaborate on The Silence in Be- tween. We view collaborators like plug ins in the sense that each person has their own unique set of skills. It’s our job to choose the ones we need for certain goals on certain songs or ideas, just like you would use a plug in for a specific sound. On this album we felt more con- fident in how to use collaboration, and we really set out to treat it as a tool in that way.”
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Tom: “It’s part of the confidence thing. We both know what we’re good at and how strong our partnership is, so we knew how to choose the collaborators who could amplify and highlight that. Shaun Frank really worked well with us on a few songs, helping us achieve one of our main goals, which was to reach certain production standards without compromising song craft. He has this rare blend of musicality and engineering chops that fit perfectly with what we do. He pushed us into new spaces, but always in a way that made us feel more like ourselves.”
PHILOSOPHY AND PERSPECTIVE
Beyond the milestones, beyond the charts and stages, Bob Moses think of music as something closer to a mirage. The chase never ends, the magic ne- ver quite belongs to you, yet that is exactly what keeps them moving forward. BLINK captures this philoso- phy at a moment when their lives as artists and fathers intersect, forcing them to confront time, memory, and legacy with sharper honesty.
Jimmy: “I think it’s all one big mirage that can’t be caught. That’s the beau- ty and the frustration of the creati- ve process. It really is just about being a channel for it and tuning in as best you can. You’ve gotta be grateful when you get something good and pure and powerful. That’s what all creative people are trying to do really, to tune into that frequency and catch magic. It sounds hokey, but there’s not really a better way to describe how it feels.”
Tom: “We’ve had a lot of great times and written a lot of music we’re proud of. It feels like we’re just getting started. We’d always encourage people to chase that magic because there is no better feeling than catching it. We grew up with music being the most powerful thing in our lives, our god so to speak, and it’s the way we’ve always made sense of the world and of life. To be able to make music from an honest place in ourselves and to have that go out into the world and have that same effect on other people is the ultimate gift and is definitely worth the chase. It’s some- thing we are very grateful for chance to do.”
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