{"id":41677,"date":"2026-08-12T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41677"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:40:02","slug":"david-duchovny-on-new-album-prince-of-pieces-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41677","title":{"rendered":"David Duchovny on New Album Prince of Pieces: Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/david-duchovny-kmw-prince-of-pieces-album-soapbox-movie.jpg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1617563\" data-title=\"David Duchovny on New Album Prince of Pieces, New Movie Soapbox, and Why Comedy Needs Movie Theaters: Podcast\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/david-duchovny-prince-of-pieces-interview\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"embedPlayer\" class=\"no-resize\" style=\"border: 0px; border-radius: 12px; width: 100%; height: 175px; max-width: 660px;\" title=\"Media player\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/david-duchovny-on-prince-of-pieces-songwriting\/id1381546475?i=1000782907259&amp;itscg=30200&amp;itsct=podcast_box_player&amp;ls=1&amp;mttnsubad=1000782907259&amp;at=1001l36gv&amp;theme=auto\" width=\"100%\" height=\"175\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen via:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kyle-meredith-with\/id1381546475?itsct=podcast_box&amp;itscg=30200&amp;ls=1&amp;at=1001l36gv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4GiQLBlq0j0ZhZBwGL4bZI?si=P64n2TfPSWGUyRyM8EsUmg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/200d8c03-cf26-4eb8-a99b-f833c7b2c740\/kyle-meredith-with\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Amazon Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/KyleMeredithW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">More Platforms<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/David-Duchovny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Duchovny<\/a> has spent the last decade making the phrase \u201cactor-turned-musician\u201d increasingly useless. His fourth album, <em>Prince of Pieces<\/em>, finds him returning to songs that have accumulated over years rather than chasing whatever version of himself happens to be standing in the studio that week. Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/category\/consequence-podcast-network\/kyle-meredith-with\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Meredith<\/a>, Duchovny digs into the record\u2019s long gestation, the decade-old \u201cStay on the Train,\u201d the creative shift that began around his 50th birthday, and the increasingly blurry lines between his music, novels, screenwriting, and upcoming films like <em>Soapbox<\/em> and <em>See You When I See You<\/em>. Listen above or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/KyleMeredithW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>For Duchovny, songwriting also offers permission to use familiar language in ways his fiction often doesn\u2019t. \u201cWe don\u2019t demand kind of rigorous originality from our movies or from our songs. We want a commonality. We want to feel a history,\u201d he explains. That instinct runs through \u201cStay on the Train,\u201d which he describes as a collection of deliberately familiar father-child images built around one piece of advice: keep moving even when the scenery changes.<\/p>\n<p>Songwriting, he adds, also gives him a useful disguise. \u201cIt\u2019s also a way for me to hide my personal business,\u201d Duchovny says, describing the process of taking well-worn modes of expression and trying to \u201creinvigorate them with my own experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That same tension between the personal and the collaborative shows up in Duchovny\u2019s film work. He wrote <em>Soapbox<\/em> and stars in it opposite his daughter, an experience he calls \u201ccertainly profound,\u201d admitting that the first few takes brought an unexpected wave of nerves. \u201cShe\u2019s the best thing in the movie. So, I\u2019m so proud of her,\u201d he says. Duchovny also talks about the increasingly difficult path for independent movies to reach theaters and why certain genres still thrive communally. Horror makes immediate sense to him, but he wishes another shared experience would come back with equal force. \u201cI wish that we still had a sense of the communal experience of comedy,\u201d he says. \u201cIt would be great, you know, if you could fill a theater for a comedy again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to David Duchovny talk about <em>Prince of Pieces<\/em>, <em>Soapbox<\/em>, <em>I See You When I See You<\/em>, and more in the new episode above or by watching the video below. 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