{"id":285,"date":"2024-12-11T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:41:46","slug":"baths-reckons-with-his-sexual-appetite-on-sea-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/baths-reckons-with-his-sexual-appetite-on-sea-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Baths Reckons With His Sexual Appetite on &#039;Sea of Men&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81NTI5MDE0MS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc4MzU2ODI4NX0.0Sy9ErUiqWwXT_W9LU6K_QcmmKaKCcOBNcpNbeMu5zw\/img.jpg?width=3000&amp;height=3643&amp;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarnal is a normal mode,\u201d sings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bathsmusic\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Baths\u2019<\/u><\/a> Will Wiesenfeld on his latest single, before continuing: \u201cFucking all the men in droves.\u201d Aptly titled <a href=\"https:\/\/hypeddit.com\/baths\/seaofmen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u>\u201cSea of Men,\u201d<\/u><\/a> the unfiltered, new song is a preview of his forthcoming album <a href=\"https:\/\/bathsmerch.myshopify.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em><em>Gut<\/em><\/em><\/u><\/a>, due out February 21, and sees the musician writing \u201cfrom the stomach\u201d with \u201cno regard to personal embarrassment or relatability.\u201d Beyond sex and romance, Wiesenfeld bravely dives head first into the spectrum of his \u201cpersonal shortcomings,\u201d from \u201cdreamless living\u201d to \u201charmful fantasies\u201d and \u201cdissonant self-identities,\u201d as he describes.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"09f4bc5163d46da801a05a7a8aa63fe1\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"20cc2\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img-25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSea of Men\u201d music video, premiering today on <em>PAPER<\/em>, delivers something with \u201cimmediacy,\u201d a word Wiesenfeld uses frequently to explain the world of <em>Gut<\/em>. Rather than a dark, mysterious feeling, the self-directed film aims for a classic look, as the band performs in a bright white space before an audience. He has nothing left to hide, unleashing everything on this project \u2014 a fearlessness visualized by the video cast circling around him seated at the center, as he stares deadpan into the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Below, <em>PAPER<\/em> talks further with Baths about \u201cSea of Men,\u201d and the \u201cdisarmingly forward, maybe even belligerent\u201d nature of <em>Gut<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"ea14bb661fd459058ea316ac78477304\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baths - Sea of Men (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M5g9V6nI0jI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><em>Gut<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong> is your first album in seven years. What did you learn during that time that you&#8217;ve put into this project? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure that I\u2019ve grown in plenty of ways, but it\u2019s hard to take stock of my life as a whole and say anything definitively. I\u2019m literally just living one day to the next. I\u2019ve certainly taken in more art, books, movies, games, music. Maybe one thing I\u2019m more certain of than ever before is how important exercise has become to my mental health \u2014 that my mood on an exercise day versus a non-exercise day is tangibly different. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You mention there&#8217;s newfound honesty in this project. How did you tap into that and why now? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had to come to terms with how intensely sex governs my thinking, in all aspects of my life. Like I\u2019m proudly out and gay and all of that, but it\u2019s still embarrassing how pervasive my sexual thoughts are, or my self-analysis and criticism of those thoughts. Making a new record that reflected something honest about the most recent chapter of my life meant addressing those feelings, living inside of them \u2014 attempting to understand my sexuality and isolation by not diluting how those things exist for me, and chasing that same immediacy with the lyrics. <\/p>\n<p>Musically, <em><em>Gut<\/em><\/em> reflects my more recent listening, but obviously gets funneled through whatever weird process I have, which eventually got to a place that fueled the emotional push I was trying to get across with the lyrics. It wasn\u2019t exactly a natural process to get to that cohesion, but I do think I found it in the end.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"5ea420475804dbe1313261474a8c74be\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"a1330\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img-26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyrically, what&#8217;s the story behind &#8220;Sea of Men&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story of it is more fun to leave to the listener, but I can share that it was obtuse, messy and laborious, where my love life and songwriting exist in an exact parallel. I think a good lyrical summation of \u201cSea of Men\u201d is \u201creckoning with my voracious sexual appetite.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you think &#8220;Sea of Men&#8221; is a development of where you&#8217;ve been and a reflection of where you are now, musically?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSea of Men\u201d doesn\u2019t make an effort to change how I feel or express myself through music, but it does take on a palette or medium that is less familiar to myself and the Baths repertoire. I\u2019m a fan of all sorts of rock, but especially the sort where artists are doing something different, and that electricity was a driving inspiration. Like, the idea of a \u201cband-sounding record\u201d was the inciting concept, but I can\u2019t help myself, and I always fold in all the other things I find interesting along the way as well. In part <em>Gut<\/em> was an effort to prove to myself that I\u2019m capable of a sort of music that I hadn\u2019t actively pursued before, but it very quickly just became \u201ccorrect\u201d to have the album sound the sort of direct way that it does, and I didn&#8217;t have to focus on it as conceptually as I did at first. I could just sort of build the world of it from the inside out once I realized I was comfortable there.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8d332ffb0bc554e80e60f97a3ad5c500\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"2e435\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img-27.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"0ebac39306830d91d7d247a1f5cb6652\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"eaa04\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img-28.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"1e33bec6458aa3b4fcb5fcc471bd7a55\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"2a3b7\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img-29.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"708f75ad156736a1fb254ad0f707a93a\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"0ff57\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img-30.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>I love this video. How did you approach it, creatively, and as an extension of the song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted immediacy. That\u2019s one of many keywords in my explanations around <em>Gut<\/em>: immediate, nude, adult (and unadulterated), relentless, angry. I wanted the video to feel sort of stark and simple, where the thing you take away from it is essentially just very visible people. Maybe movement, like an edit-enhanced performance that gives the video and the song itself a solid symbiosis. And I wanted the look of it to be defiantly bright. A lot of music videos, including my own, are often darker and obfuscated, but I want to not live in any deep mystery about the music of <em>Gut<\/em> or the world built inside of this record. There\u2019s no part of me that has anywhere left to hide, sort of. It\u2019s supposed to be disarmingly forward, maybe even belligerent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;re the different people featured in the space? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I put out a \u201cclose friends\u201d call on Instagram and these are the friends who responded <em><em>[laughs]<\/em><\/em>. That casting was remarkably one of the easiest parts of the process. Everyone was great, thoroughly amicable and great with taking directions when needed. As it so happens each and every one of them are fantastic artists in their own right, and contributed some great ideas too.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"bd911840700011320f513ccd074d4fd5\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"84291\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img-31.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>How does &#8220;Sea of Men&#8221; represent this project as an early taste of what&#8217;s to come?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I think it has a good balance between the extremes of where<em> Gut<\/em> ends up. It\u2019s got band elements, but rides like more of a pop song, has some experimental sounds and moments. It\u2019s a taste of the sort of skeletal structure of the record without giving too much away about where it diverts, both sonically and lyrically.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s no part of me that has anywhere left to hide, sort of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Photography:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tonjethilesen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tonje Thilesen<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCarnal is a normal mode,\u201d sings Baths\u2019 Will Wiesenfeld on his latest single, before continuing: \u201cFucking all the men in droves.\u201d Aptly titled \u201cSea of Men,\u201d the unfiltered, new song is a preview of his forthcoming album Gut, due out February 21, and sees the musician writing \u201cfrom the stomach\u201d with \u201cno regard to personal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierohair.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}