We had the pleasure of interviewing Amtrac over Zoom video!
All things take time, and time changes everything. For Amtrac, it was the Extra Time alone that made all the difference.
Just as lockdown created a very real before and after on the face of our global culture, the producer born Caleb Cornett can use the pandemic to mark the moment he moved from just another producer to a full-on album artist.
He’s released two full-length albums and a slew of varied singles and EPs, not to mention marquee collaborations with Diplo and Leon Bridges, remixed everyone from Ellie Goulding to Zhu, Two Door Cinema Club and Duke Dumont. He runs his own label, Openers, named in a nod to the way he’s managed to straddle both the bright lights of the mainstage world and the taste-making underground without ever losing sense of who he really is—and still, he’s never felt quite as focused as this.
Emerging from the ambiguity of lockdown with a honed-in perspective, Amtrac rededicates himself to the art of the full-length LP. Extra Time is a 13-track exploration of forced introspection, a cohesive story of confinement and confusion that finishes with a surreal feeling of hope.
While the world huddled indoors and washed cereal boxes in a strange mix of fear and bewilderment, Amtrac gathered his synths, computers and headphones and set up a little studio in his Los Angeles loft. In just a few months, he wrote what would become the main skeleton of Extra Time.
It may be his third official album, but it’s his first to capture a true moment in his life, coming together not as a myriad of pieces made in separate times and places, but as one singular snapshot with a common theme.
Tapping into his love of film scores, Extra Time plays with cinematic peaks and valleys, swimming in shades of uncertain mood with pulsing rhythms and uneasy lyrics. Musical intermissions allow space to breathe between rushing tracks, while the cover art and music videos mirror the indie film aesthetic.
Extra Time is a journey spent toiling toward something, though one is never quite sure of what. It’s about being in the guts of the moment, and the payoff that you make for yourself.
It’s the beginning of a new chapter, born from a moment of trial that hints at triumphs to come. In the end, Extra Time pays homage to where he’s been but walks boldly into a new artistic future.
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