Interview: London Rapper/Producer Lynx Cane Talks About His New Album "The Spirit and Its Fruits"
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“I really wanted to love every single song on the album fully before I released it, so every time I finished at least recording a song, I would just listen to it all the time.”
Big salute to you on the release of your new album "The Spirit and Its Fruits"; tell us what the title means to you and why you selected it.
Thank you! Yeah so the title is from the bible verse in Galatians about "The Fruits of the Spirit." The things listed in what that involves were the main bases and theme of this album let alone what I try to live by every single day.
I believe it's: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.
What was your creative process for the development of the 12 tracks, and how did you go about selecting the instrumentals that you didn't produce?
After releasing "Spread Love" and "Fruits" as singles in November last year, I just felt that this sound and subject matter was something I wanted to delve into more deeper. I just took it one song at a time and not try to rush things like I've done before.
I really wanted to love every single song on the album fully before I released it, so every time I finished at least recording a song, I would just listen to it all the time. On the bus, the train, whatever. If I didn't dislike it after a few weeks, I knew it was good enough for the album for me.
In terms of selecting the instrumentals that I didn't produce, that was all about trying something new and challenging. It's always fun to do that because I feel like sometimes when you produce stuff for yourself all the time, you can get a bit comfortable on how you approach a flow or something like that.
It's fun to just experiment and try new things musically like that for me, so if it was something different but still cohesive to the rest of the other songs, that's how I picked them.
Do you plan on filming music videos for any of the songs on the album? If so, which one(s) can we expect to see?
So there's two music videos released at the moment. One for "The Day of Atonement" and another for "Spread Love", with that one directed and filmed by Higher Self, that I dropped a bit before the album.
"Spread Love" especially was so fun to make. I'm planning on maybe doing a music video for "Fruits" but we'll see haha.
When someone listens to the album for the first time, what do you want them to take away from the experience?
Hope. Literally hope. What I mean by that is all things that encompass. Love, inspiration, drive, perseverance, honesty, vulnerability, everything that just makes you feel like you can be better and that you are something for the people who feel like they can't do better and that they're nothing. Obviously something like this brother can rap as well haha but yeah if it just helps to inspire people like how making this album therapeutically helped and inspired me then I've done my goal.
With this incredible album now available for all of us to hear, where are you going next musically for your current and upcoming releases?
Haha thank you again! Honestly I don't know, I just go with how I feel in the present when I'm in a creative zone. However, I have been working on a few songs recently. Hopefully some will drop fairly soon. Plus yeah, it's just been again trying new things in terms of what I'm trying to sample like German prog rock and reggae, and experimenting with song structures which has just been an experience in itself.