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"   Photo: Hippos in Tanks  If the best ideas come to you the moment before you fall asleep, Sleep \u221E Over is the greatest way to get you back to that state of mind. Austin-based Stefanie Franciotti&amp;#039;s dreamy synths and hypnotic vocals recall the most moving effects of Kate Bush or a Lynch-like soundtrack. Having just released her debut LP, Forever, on Hippos in Tanks, we caught up with Franciotti to talk psychoanalysis, Now and Then, and who&amp;#039;d attend her ultimate sleep over party. ELLE: Tell me a little bit about the cover art for Forever. It looks like a bronzed statue of a woman bound?Stefanie Franciotti: I actually bought it as a present for my boyfriend. It&amp;#039;s a paperweight. And I just thought it was really funny. It wasn&amp;#039;t something he could take to his office or anything, but I saw it and I was immediately drawn to the imagery behind this tiny, tiny statue of a lady who is just bondaged-out, and couldn&amp;#039;t really do anything to help herself. The statue itself is interesting because she gets a lot of pleasure from that. ELLE: Have you always been so into dreams? Or have they always played such a big role in your music?SF: I&amp;#039;ve always been very aware of my dreams. I make strides and efforts to remember them in great detail and it works. It&amp;#039;s not something that I think people can access unless they&amp;#039;re making an effort to access those memories. In college I read a lot of Jung and Freud, psychoanalysis has always been very interesting to me. I guess it&amp;#039;s just always had a lot of importance for me. ELLE: Listening to this album felt like such a release, what were you trying to express?SF: It&amp;#039;s really hard to say because it was such a trial by fire making it. I was doing a lot of writing while I was recording and I was also meditating a lot and trying to just clean my head up, so maybe that came out. ELLE: If you could invite anyone, living or dead, what would your dream sleepover be like?SF: Like a literal sleep over? I&amp;#039;d invite Seth, which is, I don&amp;#039;t know if you&amp;#039;ve heard of Jane Roberts? She&amp;#039;s an author and a medium and she communicates with this spirit called Seth that disseminates the way that the universe works. Basically, he&amp;#039;s an entity that tells it like it is. So I&amp;#039;d want to invite Jane Roberts and Seth by proxy. And then I&amp;#039;d want to invite Carl Jung, Buffy the vampire slayer. Maybe the girls from Strawberry Switchblade. We would eat a lot of junk food, try to contact spirits and jam, and smoke weed. ELLE: You wore a jumpsuit during a recent performance in Montreal, what do you feel most comfortable in on stage?SF: I think in reality my day to day is very sloppy, it&amp;#039;s not what I wear on stage. There&amp;#039;s an intentional effort to get dressed up when I go out but I really am a homebody. I am a nanny, and I never leave my house. The jumpsuit was loaned to be my by roommate who is part of my touring band and she has her own vintage store so she just hooked me up with that. ELLE: Are there fabrics or colors that you&amp;#039;re drawn to?SF: I just got these really great stockings I found when I was looking through historical fashion. There was this advertisement for this stocking company that made these stockings with snakes embroidered on them. I thought they were really great so I went on the computer and searched and there they were. I guess I get my fashion ideas from the past. But you know to be quite honest: Tumblr. ELLE: I looked at your Tumblr. I liked the Now and Then shot\u2014is there one character you most identify with?SF: I would say Christina Ricci&amp;#039;s character if I had to pick, only because she made a concerted effort to hide her woman-ness as a child, which was me when I was a kid. Now I&amp;#039;m more about embracing it. But definitely as a young girl I felt uncomfortable about the shape of my body and I wanted to cover it up. I identified with that kind of insecurity. ELLE: So what&amp;#039;s next for you?SF: I&amp;#039;m planning on recording when I get back again, just trying to pop off another record as soon as I can. I think there&amp;#039;s a lot of industry related waiting related to album releases and there are seasons and periods that are appropriate for albums to come out. I don&amp;#039;t really want to subscribe to that, just continue to work at my own pace. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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