When this album started, I was really into experimental post-punk groups like “The Pop Group” and ‘James Chance & The Off-Whites’, and I was also very inspired by Miles Davis’ early 70s records. Particularly “On The Corner”. There’s freewheeling nature to that music that feels so open and untethered, yet also so groovy. Great rhythms!

More recently I have been listening to a lot of progressive rap like ‘Playboi Carti’ and hyper-pop like ‘100 Gecs’ and ‘SOPHIE’