Caryn Ganz from the New York Times sat down with Hayley Williams to talk about life, music and her upcoming debut album Petals for Armor. “There’s a moment in our lives where you open the door and you see what’s behind that door and you can never un-see it again,” she said. But she wasn’t the only one to discuss the project – Taylor York also said a few words. “It’s not like she uses pain as some sort of a gimmick or some sort of like a vehicle, just to get a good song. She really wants to say something.”
In the interview Hayley mentions a title of a new, unreleased track, an uber-poppy song called “Dead Horse”: “I came close to stifling my creative process because I didn’t want to live up to those expectations of what it looks like when a female leaves a band and makes a project on her own.” She also revealed that Boygenius – the project of Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker – are set to feature on the album!
Here you can find the interview. Photos taken by Tim Barber. Extra photos available here.