Mother Jones sat down with Ahmir Thompson a.k.a ?uestlove and this is how he explained their new album, Undun, that's coming out on the 6th of December 2011"Mother Jones: So, tell us about Undun, the Roots' new album.
Ahmir Thompson: Shit, you're the first person I'm talking to about this. I'll put it this way: It's our first ongoing-narrative album. In other words, it's like listening to an audio storybook or a movie. The hardest thing about sticking to a narrative is the Tarantino-esque way that we're gonna break the structure. We're trying to figure out, "Well, what if we told the end first, and the beginning, and then the middle?"
MJ: And what's the story about?
AT: That part I'm keeping secret. Where I see How I Got Over kind of introducing the idea of a midlife crisis, like, "What do you do as 40-year-old into hip-hop?" and Rising Down as kind of the American's anger at his government, and Game Theory as a mournful kind of reflection on loss, this story will basically be like the best of those three outlines. And whereas those albums were about us, this album is told in character form.
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