be like 'yeah that's what the next sound is supposed to be like'. I'm looking at this playlist right now, and it has Elliot Smith, Brian Eno, Grouper and DJ Shadow on it. Nine Inch Nails is down there, and Nina Simone and Vetiver. I just try to trust my instinct, and if two or three different songs are ostensibly different from each other, and they all hit me with the same feeling, then I trust there is something common in all three of them. Then I figure out what that is, and figure out that shared ground of all those sounds. A lot of people seem keen to pin you down exclusively to R&B. Are you ever wary of getting pigeonholed, in terms of genre? TK: Not really, just because I've already made enough songs in enough styles that I don't feel like anyone can predict what I'm gonna do next. I was making weird ambient noise music, and then I started making really fucked noisy, scarred pop songs. I feel like people also don't really notice that Love Remains has all different kind of styles of music. 'You Won't Need Me Where I'm Going' is like a rock song, and 'Mr. By & By' is kind of like a disco song, and 'Walking This Dumb' is kind of like a soulful song. What about Total Loss ? TK: This record, like you said, it's got all different kinds of influences. The first song is like weird ambient soul