Blonde Redhead’s Simone on Sit Down For Dinner

“Life changes fast,” Joan Didion once wrote. “Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

When Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino encountered this passage from Didion’s memoir of grief, The Year of Magical Thinking, in the early pandemic months, Makino was thinking of her own parents far away in Japan; the then-lost ritual of congregating for dinner with family; and the heavy, omnipresent feeling that life could change in the instant for any of us.

She narrated these feelings on a pair of songs which helped title Blonde Redhead’s 10th full-length: “It’s sort of about death, but the music is so alive and groovy,” Makino says.

The legendary dream-pop band returns with their first album in almost a decade, the sumptuously received Sit Down for Dinner.

RTRFM’s Pam Boland caught up with the bands drummer and keys player, Simone Pace.

Check out Blonde Redhead’s website  for more information on tours and music.