​everything matters (when it comes to you) - commentary

"Right, so here we are

Hello beautiful people, this is San, San Holo.
Welcome to the 'album1 (commentary)' album.

I don't even know where to start... This album has been such a beautiful chapter of my life, both the writing and touring side of it. I thought it'd be cool to tell you guys a little bit more about the songs, you know? About what they mean to me and maybe a little bit about the process behind it.
As you might know, I wrote most of the album at an AirBNB in Echo Park, LA. No fancy studio or expensive equipment, just a laptop, some old tape machines and a bunch of guitars. Often times, surrounded by beautiful, genuine people I am happy to call my friends.

Let's start with, um, with the first song, of course: 'everything matters (when it comes to you)'...

With 'album1', I really wanted to bring back the guitar in my music. I've studied guitar; I used to play guitar in bands; I was a guitar teacher for many years but when I started producing music as 'San Holo', I kind of stopped playing because I was just so inspired by the entire electronic music world and instead of a guitar, I grabbed a keyboard or a drum machine to express myself. However, I really started to miss the sound and vibe of guitars and one night on tour I was messing around on my guitar because I was feeling kind of weird. You know how that goes. At some point I played this thing:

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I don't know why, but it just felt like something special that I had to record, so I record it. Then it kind of evolved to:

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And then I stopped recording and I went on with life and I forgot that I recorded it and I think almost a year later, when I started writing 'album1', I rediscovered it and realised this was the intro to my album. There's a little guitar harmony later on in the song that I was pretty about when I wrote it. This is guitar 1:

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And together with the second guitar, it sounds like:

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Something like that...

About the lyrics: I sampled the line 'everything matters when it comes to you' from a song an old song my friend Appleby made. I actually put a part of this song in there as well, if you listen closely:

"Everything matters, when it comes to you
Every-"

It's kind of like a 'thank you' to him but yeah... 'everything matters' is just a song for someone you really care about. Everything matters when it comes to you."