Carina Round discusses the new Puscifer album "Normal Isn't", their creative partnership, how motherhood transformed her songwriting, the emotional experience of revisiting The Disconnection and much more.
Topics Include:
- New Puscifer album "Normal Isn't" and concert film drop February 6th
- Puscifer described as dark multimedia project with interconnecting 20-year storyline
- New characters introduced: Belendia Black, Fanny Gray, the Synth Whisperer
- Writing began post-Existential Reckoning; Mat keeps a magical idea folder
- Maynard learned Logic software, contributed more initial musical sketches this time
- Carina waits for lyrics—word rhythms shape her vocal approach entirely
- Mat masters specific gear per album: Fairlight, Synclavier, custom guitars
- Carina sang through Eventide effects unit, letting it shape melodies
- Mat designs all stage plots, lighting, and visual concepts himself
- Carina recently started improv classes—facing her worst nightmare on purpose
- Mat discovered her at LA show; V is for Vagina hooked her
- Maynard conveys mood clearly while leaving lyrics open to interpretation
- Humbling River audition taught her: no preciousness about ideas here
- Maynard's response—"as long as it doesn't interfere with me"—was freeing
- Having an eight-year-old son completely changed her creative process
- Revisiting The Disconnection live revealed surprising wisdom in her youth
- Music became her way to connect rather than dissociate emotionally
- She bootlegged her own Interscope album just to have it on vinyl
- Kids today skip songs constantly—no commitment to full album journeys
- Rare Ocean Blue pressing was a happy accident—only 13 copies exist
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