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Album: Adventure (2015)
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  • This confessional song features Madeon's own vocals. The track came together during a marathon 24-hour studio session during which he found himself in a vulnerable state, grappling with creative frustration. The French producer explained to Digital Spy: "I like to lock myself in the studio for 24 hours and do this thing called a '24 hour EP'. I do that once a year. I wake up in the morning and I start a clock, and I have 24 hours to write three or four great songs and make an EP from scratch without sleeping, without leaving the room, without really eating - a really intense physical thing."

    "It's a really important part of my process, and a lot of my favourite, better, songs came from that because you get into this very sensible, fragile zone," he continued. "So I was doing that and I was reaching that point where, about the 16th hour, where you feel like the worst musician ever: you can't do it anymore, you don't want to do it anymore, you want to quit but you don't."

    "I was just there at the piano kind of sobbing, and I did this song, 'Home', and because it had to be done in that time frame, I had to record it myself," Madeon added. "I had a microphone lying around, and I plugged it in and I did it. And I felt, 'Well, I like this song, but I think it'd be weird for someone else to do it'... you know what, it's fragile and I think that's touching, I'm gonna keep it like that'. And so I kept those takes and this attempt, and I guess that it maintains that proximity and that personal element of the album."

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