A lot of my other music is pretty heavy for me and it’s really personal and darker. So it was about uplifting you as much as anyone else? It reminds me of the simpler time of riding in your mums car and going to soccer practice or whatever. Everybody was depressed and dreary and I remembered that song because my mum always used to play it in the car when I was a kid, if someone asked ‘what’s the most positive and helpful song you could think of right now?’, I felt it would always be that song. Then I was just back at home thinking, there’s nothing to do. I was supposed to be on tour, we did two shows and then the rest got cancelled. “I decided to cover it right after the pandemic really started shutting everything down in America. What inspired you to cover ‘Put Your Records On’ in the first place? NME caught up with Rutter to discuss his wild break and this juxtaposition. Quite the contrast to the soulful cover that brought the artist to the fore. The sparse and pensive lo-fi record brings together heartworn vocals and pensive keys with brutal fragility. Now though, Rutter operates as a solo outlet after his past members left on Mormon missions and he drifted away from the religion, something which has been a driving force in the emotionally dense indie-pop.Ģ019’s debut album ‘Her And All My Friends’ tackles some of those feelings from that turbulent period head on, including his girlfriend moving to college and emotions of loss and struggle. Pre-viral fame, Ritt Momney was a modest Salt Lake City based indie project taking their name from a tongue-in-cheek spoonerism on Utah’s Republican Senator and former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a moniker which stuck after a throwaway suggestion from an old bandmate. The trend rapidly spread and his version now boasts a whopping fifty million listeners on Spotify. This particular viral surge came about when a user put the track over a makeup video on a TikTok, with a hastily done ten second makeup job transitioning into works of art that have had hours put into them. It was a move born out of the bleak misery of lockdown, meant simply to offer an uplifting escape for himself and listeners, but it also became career defining moment for the Salt Lake City artist. In April Jack Rutter cut loose from his usual introspective indie with a, er, cover of Corine Bailey Rae’s, ‘Put Your Records On’.
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