Sloppy Jane Finds Digital Noise in Roy Orbison

Rob Orbison

Greatest Hits (Monument)

Sloppy Jane Finds Digital Noise in Roy Orbison: Sloppy Jane, aka Haley Dahl, told us about her love for a Roy Orbison compilation.

Sloppy Jane: At the end of high school, I had a very sweet boyfriend who liked to dance to Roy Orbison’s Greatest Hits while he cooked us both breakfast. At the end of our relationship, he gave me a burned CD of it that I listened to over and over in my car until it was full of scratches and scuffs that started to heavily affect the music.

(Monument)

At the vocal and instrumental climax of the song, “Only the Lonely,” it would disintegrate into horrifying, digital noise that was startling and heartbreaking. After about five minutes of relentless distortion, the song would resume and finish where it left off.

This particular CD is my favorite record of all time, and really informed the kind of music that I wanted to make — music defined by contrast, where ultimate grandeur and beauty is intertwined with ultimate ugliness and dissonance and heaviness- each making the other more impactful.

Sloppy Jane Finds Digital Noise in Roy Orbison: Sloppy Jane’s Madison album is out now.

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