III
As BANKS prepares to release her third LP, titled simply, ‘III,’ everything has gone from black and white – one extreme verses the other – to something more muted, something with more room for nuance.
“Maybe it’s a kind of adulthood,” she muses, noting that she recently turned thirty. “It’s like, all the colors were already there, but now I know how to paint with them. Black and white are still around but so is, like maroon.” She laughs. “Maroon is okay!” She pauses again, thinking. “This record, it’s really about this transition between a girl and a wise woman,” she explains. “And all the in-between messy, gritty steps that takes.”
