Madison Beer on the ‘Full-Blown Meltdown’ That Shaped ‘Silence Between Songs,’ and How Lana Del Rey Changed Her Approach to Music
variety.comThania Garcia Madison Beer had already handed her sophomore album to her label when she frantically called her producer, New Zealand-born producer Leroy Clampitt, to tell him that she wanted to turn the whole project around.
That was nearly a year ago, long before “Silence Between Songs” became the 14-song collection of psychedelic rock-inspired dream pop released today on Epic Records.
Beer and Clampitt had just individually received the first test pressings of the set and after playing the album in full Beer went to bed. “Then, I woke up in the middle of the night and realized: ‘This is not good enough,'” Beer tells Variety, recalling the “full-blown meltdown” that ultimately led her to return to the studio.
Before he picked up Beer’s call, Clampitt had spent the night at a concert with the test pressings hidden away in his bag. “I felt really weird carrying around like a bunch of vinyl, but I got home and I took a photo and sent it to her like ‘Yo, look what I just got!’ and that’s when she told me she needed to talk,” he remembers. “She felt so strongly about it and I trusted her; if she doesn’t think it’s right then we go back to the drawing board.
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