Obsidian

Obsidian is Will Wiesenfeld’s 3rd full length album under the solo project ‘Baths’. Obsidian provides a stark contrast to the often upbeat themes and bright rhythmic elements of Baths' debut LP Cerulean. Wiesenfeld has stated that although he was already working on an album with darker themes, much of the inspiration for the mood of the album came from his experience with a severe case of E. coli, which left him mostly bedridden and in pain for weeks.

I got really, really sick with E Coli for upwards of like three months and I was bedridden. It was terrible. I wasn’t totally bedridden: I was moving from my bed to the couch to the toilet. After all that shit happened, I needed eight or nine months of recovery. It was the worst thing ever. There is never a good time for that to happen, but I was right on the precipice of trying to start new material. Only once I simmered out of having that illness did I get back in the swing of things and start working on the record.

The idea for the album was already there, but the illness provided – not inspiration, exactly, certainly not any feeling like ‘Oh, this is so great’ – but this feeling of nothingness and being so uninspired and trapped in the house and too tired to even get up and and drink Gatorade. That was interesting to me.