A-Sides Interview: Richard Patrick of Filter Discusses Bowie, Crazy Eyes Album, and Longevity

Reconstruction requires deconstruction. The institutions must be razed in order to clear space for the future to flourish. You tear down the old and build up the new. Filter founder, singer, guitarist, and producer Richard Patrick knows this dance well. It’s what established the group as a multiplatinum industrial alternative luminary, and it catalyzed their seventh full-length album, Crazy Eyes [Wind-up Records]. “Filter is the mind,” he exclaims. “It’s your interpretation or my interpretation. Our thing