What has changed in your music-making process from when you started to the way it is currently?
We’ve streamlined the process, we know what we’re good at and we try to avoid the trap of spending days and hours on every little detail. This album took roughly six months to make, a personal record for us.
Your sound has always been alternative, but judging by your new single there seems to be a lot more dance elements present. What influenced this creative path?
Well, the title track is actually rather misleading in terms of the album’s overall sound palette. Skerm is actually the most melodic and “smoothest” body of work we’ve produced. Louis makes 90% of the rough beats, so the specific timbre of the album is largely a result of what he’s been creating musically over the past 18 months.
Bittereinder performing at the Skerm album launch. Photo: Hendro van der Merwe
