Where does your alias, “Pleq” come from, and what does it mean? “Pleq” means nothing in particular. In fact, it is just a collection of letters submitted and matched entirely by accident. Secondly, I didn’t want to duplicate existing names. So the creative process took me almost a week, then I started looking on the [...]

Interview with Daniel Land of riverrun, Engineers and Daniel Land & The Modern Painters Can you provide us with some background on the locations referenced in song titles? A lot of the track titles are names of places in the South West of England that I associate with my childhood or adolescence. I grew up [...]

Prismatic and last year’s Twig and Twine both offer the listener warm, meditative soundscapes that seem to attempt to tap into the simplicity and wonder of nature. Your music seems to typify a night spent lying on the beach gazing up at the stars, or a quiet afternoon hike in the woods. Where exactly do [...]

How did you come in contact with the makers of the Vanishing of the Bees (George Langworthy and Maryam Henein)? Maryam Henein & George Langworthy asked me to. George and I had crossed paths before in Austin during the early 90s. We both worked at the same radio station. How do you feel your music [...]

If Epilogue was not the end of Bitcrush, then what was it saying goodbye to? Maybe I should explain just a bit as Epilogue In Waves was truly intended to be my last album. I simply didn’t think I was going to be able to be a full-time father plus run n5MD and mailorder while [...]