Elena Thorne: Not Looking for Perfection
The songwriter talks about the beauty of failure, recording alone in a rented house, and why she stopped reading reviews.
Read the full chatThe best interviews are conversations, not interrogations. The Door Magazine approaches artists, producers, engineers and label owners with genuine curiosity rather than a publicist's agenda. This section collects long-form conversations with the people who make music — debut artists who have not yet learned to give careful answers, veterans who have nothing left to prove, and the producers whose contributions are rarely acknowledged. We ask about process, about failure, about the decisions that shaped a career. We do not ask about celebrity.
The songwriter talks about the beauty of failure, recording alone in a rented house, and why she stopped reading reviews.
Read the full chatThe producer behind three of this year's most acclaimed records talks craft, solitude, and why he refuses to work with click tracks.
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