Steve Angello Discusses Wild Youth, Possibility Of A Swedish House Mafia Reunion And More In An Interview

With the first chapter of Wild Youth already out, and the second chapter set to release today, Steve Angello has been a busy man. After Swedish House Mafia‘s split, the Swede has been concentrating on his solo career, working hard on his debut album ‘Wild Youth‘, giving his record label SIZE a whole new direction and much more.

In a recent interview with We Got This Covered, Angello talks about Wild Youth and why it took him so long to complete the album:

I felt that I needed more space in between the music and the visual content. It’s a new time now and people consume music differently than a couple of years ago. Each song tells a story and if you want that to be told you have to give each song its time and space. It’s hard enough to penetrate the masses of information coming though on daily basis. My choice was simple. Let’s give it more time, let’s tell the story the way it was meant to be told.

Discussing the delays in the album, he explains:

I wasn’t satisfied with my creative attribution to the album. It had such an important meaning that I felt like I hadn’t given my all and therefore I scrapped almost of half of the album and re-did most songs. I have 20 years of experience and I want to hear it in the music. Imagine being one of the biggest chefs in the world but you still go work at McDonalds. It’s kind of like that.

When asked about his friendship with Eric Prydz and the possibility of another collaboration with him, this is what he had to say:

We’ve been friends for almost 18 years now and Eric is one of the best electronic music producers our world has ever seen. He’s incredible and has always been since the beginning of our careers. We won’t collaborate again though. We do, however, still have some unreleased music from 2001.

Any interview with the former members of SHM is incomplete without the question of a possible reunion, and Angello didn’t give a concrete answer on being asked about what would it take for him to be onboard for a Swedish House Mafia reunion

Well, isn’t that part of the mystique surrounding the question and answer – we haven’t discussed it. We haven’t even thought about it. We haven’t said we’ll never tour again, but we also haven’t said we’ll tour again, either. We’ll just have to see what happens.

Source: We Got This Covered