/BLEEDTHROUGH
/Q+A [IN PROGRESS]

Q: What is this?
A: I already explained that somewhere else.

Q: Why are you doing this?
A: It started as a drunken boast to my friend Shaun. I’d just gotten the Matthew Good art in the can and announced that as a Christmas present, I was going to make him this could-have-been record; audio, packaging, everything. I also made a lot of threats to the government and set a few fires. I’m not allowed in that Build-a-Bear anymore.

Q: Are you going to take this seriously?
A: Probably not.

Q: […]
A: […]

Q: [begins leaving]
A: Listen, at its core, this is a gift from one minutiae-obsessed Nine Inch Nails fan to another. That meant creating a product that held up to a level of scrutiny bordering on psychosis. From the conceptual throughline to the legal copy, everything about Bleedthrough is meant to feel like it fell out of an alternate universe.
I’ve always wanted to build out a large body of work for a client like this. Actually, for this client.

Q: Okay, so some of these questions came from the internet. Which you know, because you personally screened them for anything that could make you look bad. Okay, Reddit user arachnophilia wanted you to explain your song choices.
A: In the record’s alternate timeline, the last thing fans heard was a single-disc live album in 2002. That point of demarcation helped define what couldn’t be on the album. The selection narrowed further when the narrative significance and tone came up. The songs needed to serve the proposed themes and feel right in the context. For the better part of half a year I thumbed those song names around a playlist on my phone trying to get them to tell a story. This is it.
These are also twelve songs that I love.