![]() 2 were recorded at the same time as all the music on Pt. It was just a crazy process of me wanting to be motivated slash being depressed and missing my best friend.”īoth Astasio and Smokeasac point out that the songs on Pt. I would get goosebumps, and I literally felt like he was standing behind my back watching me do this. It was so intense around the time when I was making the music. He was there with me the whole time I was doing the production.” Smoke continues, “Even to this day I feel his energy around me. In a weird way I felt like he was there for me. “I had an a capella and I was in the studio working on a song for 10 hours a day. “There were days where I was in the studio by myself working on these productions,” he remembers. Smokeasac says he also felt the support of Peep throughout the process. “I would have actually gone crazy, but George was there to support me.” “If I had to work with another producer, somebody that didn't know Peep, I would have probably lost my mind,” admits Smokeasac. Astasio’s guitar expertise and Smoke’s knack for melodic, trap-tinged instrumentals brought the two together on a musical level, but their bond grew much deeper than the album itself. Over the course of nearly a year, Smoke and Astasio, who were working on the project in Los Angeles and London respectively, stayed in constant communication. For the first time, I could separate them and tidy them up, because the guy was very guerilla with his approach.” 1 I had to work with all his vocals all together. “Finally, for the first time, I had his vocal. I went back to a little shed in the back and had a drink of something and stayed up all night listening to it as if I was riding with him,” Astasio recalls. “As soon as I got that laptop, I drove off into the country to the place where we did that video for ‘Benz Truc k’ with the church. So Astasio got to work and took the recordings to the small town of Northleach, England, where Peep had shot one of his most iconic music videos. But now, he had unprecedented access and the time to mix Pt. 1, Astasio was forced to work with all the vocals-harmonies, ad-libs, and topline-combined on one track. For years, Peep had been in the habit of recording songs himself in GarageBand, and frequently tracked vocals in his apartment. The process began in earnest when Peep’s laptop was sent to Womack, who backed it up at an Apple store and delivered the contents to Smokeasac and Astasio. “And at the time when I had announced about it, I wasn't ready to finish it, but I wanted the fans to know it existed.” ![]() From the second it happened, a million things were going through my mind and one of them was obviously, ‘All right, I have to make sure I do my best to keep his legacy going,’” Smokeasac says. “I just felt obligated to let the fans know that there was more to come-that it wasn't just, like, ‘Oh, there’s no more music.’ I wanted there to be hope. When Smoke tweeted about the record, he was still finding the strength to begin work on it. Initially, Come Over When You’re Sober was meant to be a single project, so the vocals were complete, but his collaborators needed to assemble the material. Smokeasac first announced the record on December 7, just a few weeks after Peep’s tragic passing. 2, he immediately threw himself into completing the record. Astasio is a veteran songwriter and producer with credits for Zayn Malik, Britney Spears, and Iggy Azalea, and he had grown extremely close with Smokeasac and Peep during their time recording together in London. He was first introduced to Peep by Stennett, his wife, who worked with Peep under her company First Access Entertainment. ![]() The task of finishing the project was a tremendous challenge for Astasio, as well. But I knew that I was going to get around to it.” Recalling an excruciating grieving period that followed news of his friend’s death, Smoke says, “For the first three months, I didn't even look at my laptop or make music or anything. 2 was a deeply personal, grueling process. Peep, born Gustav Elijah Åhr, was the first artist who ever purchased the producer's beats back in 2014, and the two were side by side as they went from sleeping on the floor of an Airbnb to touring the world. For the past year, one goal brought them together: executing the vision Peep had in mind for the album before he passed.įor Smokeasac, working on Pt. The team behind the record-Peep’s right-hand man Smokeasac, frequent collaborator George Astasio, business partner Sarah Stennett, and mother Liza Womack-assembled the project as a labor of love. 2, the sequel to Lil Peep’s acclaimed debut album, arrives one year after the artist’s death last November. ![]() ![]() 2,” remembers Lil Peep’s close friend and producer Dylan “Smokeasac” Mullen.Ĭome Over When You’re Sober Pt. “The last conversation that I had with Peep was on his tour bus, and we were talking about Pt. ![]()
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