Tune-Yards looking forward to taking Electric stage

Merril Garbus tells Ed Power why she’s so looking forward to performing at Electric Picnic

MERRILL Garbus was worried. It was early 2013 and Garbus, creative force behind alternative pop outfit Tune-Yards, had been touring for 18 exhausting months. She needed a break — and yet nagging voices in her head were striking up a chorus: ‘Could she afford to take time away? Would people forget her?’

“I’m quite an over-achiever,” she says. “I see these other bands touring, like all the time — Haim, Future Islands, and so forth. I was totally freaked out about going away. It was scary. The thing is, I really, really needed to. I couldn’t carry on.”