Psychic Hotline

Well, you've been able to make all these big, important decisions on your own because you own your own label.

Let's talk about Psychic Hotline a little bit.

How has having complete control over your music helped you out in other ways?

I mean, here's the thing.

How do I talk about this without sounding corny? Like it's just really nice.

I feel like the role of a record label has shifted a lot over time.

I'm curious what inspired you to start Psychic Hotline.

Partially it was just because we needed a place to put our first record.

The Durham, North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn have spent over a decade making some of the most distinctive and beloved electronic pop around, earning themselves two Grammy nominations, hundreds of millions of streams, and collaborating with an eclectic community of artists, including Arooj Aftab, Maggie Rogers, and Tyler Childs, just to name a few.

Last week, they returned with Our Infinity, their fifth studio album and the first on their very own label, Psychic Hotline.

Recorded across four years in their Chapel Hill studio, Betty's, it is their most ambitious and expansive record yet, bringing in six different drummers, a rotating cast of extraordinary collaborators, and a spirit of experimentation and improvisation that runs through every track on this record.

Today, on the podcast, we are sitting down with Amelia and Nick to talk all about Our Infinity and how leaning into experimentation and improvisation shaped these sessions.

Mm-hmm.

100%.

The exciting thing about Our Infinity as well, for this record, it is, um, being put out on your own label, on Psychic Hotline, which I then imagine there's a whole different sense of freedom.

There's different things that you can do, or you get to kind of choose and steer the way that this record is not only, like, put out, but I guess perceived and everything like that.