Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on life after lo-fi

Merrill Garbus – aka Tune-Yards – made her first album at home on a dictaphone. For her new one, she had to come to terms with a whole studio – including synths'I can't believe I'm so far out of those woods," says Merrill Garbus. For an artist who recorded her first album on a handheld dictaphone in her bedroom, she's come a long way. She spent much the last 10 years broke, sometimes bin-diving to survive, and travelling long hauls between barely paid gigs in her tiny Chevy. But the rel...

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