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When Jack Tatum began work on Life of Pause, his third full-length to date, he had lofty ambitions Don't just write another album; create another world. One with enough detail and texture and dimension that a listener could step inside, explore, and inhabit it as they see fit. InchI desperately wanted for this to be the kind of record that would displace me,Inch he says. InchI'm terrified by the idea of being any one thing, or being of any one genre. And whether or not I accomplish that, I know that my only hope of getting there is to constantly reinvent. That reinvention doesn't need to be drastic, but every new record has to have it's own identity, and it has to have a separate set of goals from what came before.Inch What came before a rightfully acclaimed, much beloved display of singular pop craftsmanship. Tatum's dreamy, unexpected 2010 debut, Gemini, was written while he was still a student at Virginia Tech University. It's equally disarming follow-up, 2012's Nocturne, marked the first time he'd been able to bring his bedroom recordings into a studio, to be performed and fully realized with the help of other musicians. There has been a set of wonderfully expansive EPs in between-each hinting at new directions and punctuating previous ideas-but with Life of Pause, Tatum delivers what he describes as his most InchhonestInch and InchmatureInch work yet, an exquisitely arranged and beautifully recorded collection of songs that marry the immediate with the indefinable. InchI allowed myself to go down every route I could imagine even if it ended up not working for me,Inch he says. InchI owe it to myself to take as many risks as possible. Songs are songs and you have to allow yourself to be open to everything.Inch After a prolonged period of writing and experimentation, recording took place over several weeks in both Los Angeles and Stockholm, with producer Thom Mon
