Dirty Loops played London's Elextric Brixton on Nov 27th 2023 where I was able to grab some time to chat to bassist Henrik Linder about the band's incredible musicianship, song writing choices, and how they've improved live over the years.

0:00 Coming Up
0:37 Context
0:59 Start of Interview
1:19 Balancing simple songs with technical play
2:15 How Dirty Loops songs are written
3:08 Writing slap bass parts
4:45 The "Follow The Light" bass solo
5:34 Henrik's bassist influences
6:31 Why bass?
7:58 Next To You song discussion
10:48 When to solo in a song?
12:29 Has playing live changed song approach?
12:46 Sounding bad live
15:06 How do you keep improving skills?
18:23 Collaborations outside Dirty Loops
20:52 What's next for Dirty Loops?
21:36 What makes a song 'suck'?
23:06 Outro

Be sure to checkout ‪@dirtyloops‬ on tour by checking their dates here: https://www.songkick.com/artists/4527...

And as mentioned in the interview, some recent work that Henrik has been playing on outside of Dirty Loops are:
Icelandic singer Stina Agustsdottir: https://open.spotify.com/album/436YOQ...
Icelandic guitarist Mikael Mani: https://open.spotify.com/album/0sKGZ3...
David Sunnerfors: https://open.spotify.com/album/6xKFpJ...

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