I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to … - Kieran Hebden

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My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.

Kieran Hebden

I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was really hectic and turning much more confrontational. So when I started working on Everything Ecstatic, that was very normal for me. I think it was a departure, but people read it as an escape from something, whereas every record I do is, I feel, a departure.

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