Michael Stipe offers update on his debut solo album: “I have a deadline now”
nme.comMichael Stipe has revealed that he is still working on his debut album, despite a number of delays in his creative process over the past 12 months.
In a new interview with New York Times, the former R.E.M. frontman reassured fans that his previously announced solo album is still in the works, but that personal circumstances including family emergencies, house moves and a bout of Covid have slowed the process.
He also described the effect of his “terrible” writer’s block, but added that after meeting with his mother, he now feels pressure to deliver. “I have a deadline now,” he said. “I could keep working on this record for a decade and let my insecurities get the better of me.” “We can say for the piece that I finished the songs,” he told the newspaper. “And by God, I will finish them before the piece comes out.
How about that? Let’s leave the piece closing with: I finished the songs.” Last December, Stipe confirmed that he was working on his debut album, saying at the time that “it should come together next year”. “I’m working on a solo album, my first.
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