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I think Jacknife even messaged him on Instagram or something. And then Jacknife had introduced me to Open Mike Eagle's music. So I thought, "Why don't we just ask them to come and sing it?" So we put together an email, sent it to Mokoomba and a week later they were in the studio recording. So we recorded it in and started using what they were doing as a sample and of course when you use a sample you think, "Okay, we're gonna have to clear this with them, make sure they're okay with it." So I was looking up contact information for them and I see they're in L.A. I can't remember if it was him or me who had just bought the Mokoomba record, but it was on and I was playing the record the same time he was editing a song we were working on. Mokoomba was the first one to happen and that was just such a quick crazy story. īaltin: How did the collaborations come about? But stuff that he's played me in the last couple of months that really stood out is people like Open Mike Eagle, who ended up on the record Mokoomba, who ended up on the record. So every morning we'd have coffee and listen to records. Jacknife has the most insane record collection and he has new records arriving every single day and a turntable right in the middle of the room. And some of it is really starting to slip into the most played lists and charts and that's amazing to see. And I think that the rate and the quality that music is being released at right now has opened people up to this alternate option. Trimble: All the time, there is so much good music out there. Also it's just more exciting to try something you haven't done before.īaltin: Was there stuff you listened to in the last few years between records that really excited you? And I guess that's why I don't want to tread old ground cause I've been there and I didn't get what I was looking for. I don't need to do this anymore." It's a constant experiment. You never reach that point when you think, "Okay, it's done, my work is done. I guess for most artists that never happens. That's why I keep making records, cause I haven't made the thing I want to make yet. Whatever it is is inside me and trying to come out somehow. And I'm almost certain I'm striving for something. Do you see recurring themes in things you write? As a writer I don't really want to be treading old ground and putting out the same ideas.īaltin: There is a literary train of thought that every writer is mining the same theme and just trying to get it right. That's something I'm eternally grateful for. He'll always point out when I'm doing something too similar to what I have done before. I've done that in places before in songs and Jacknife is very good at pushing me into places I haven't been before. It was me doing my Paul McCartney impression. I'd been sitting with it for a very long time and I liked the song. There's a reason why it's not a whole song. Timble: "Break" is one of the oldest songs that ended up on that record. So were the songs written together or over a period of time? It starts off dance-y, then you have "Break" and the last song is very different sonically. So we did three, four weeks in London.īaltin: The record has a diverse style throughout. Then when I feel like we've got songs in a good place, then we'll book a studio and make a record and the band comes in. And most of it starts in my place and I'll write, do demos, I'll go to Jacknife, take those things out there, we work on them together.
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This one, maybe a year, 18 months in the making.
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So it's no longer a case of writing a record, going in the studio for two months, then finishing a record. So it's a lot easier, it's a much more organic process. Because I've been working with Jacknife so long we've become good friends as well. Trimble: It was kind of all over the place. It doesn't necessarily feel like we're right in the middle of what's going on in Topanga, it feels separate, which is really nice whenever you're making a record.īaltin: So how much of the new record was made in L.A.? His place is quite secluded, so it's more about that aspect of it, about getting away from everything else. So I do most of my studio work with the same guy, Jacknife Lee, who's also Irish. Trimble: No, I've been working up there since 2011. It's nice to see a different side.īaltin: Will the new stuff you've been writing in Topanga be your hippie record? And you feel like you know somewhere, but then it is huge and vast. It's strange, I haven't lived in LA, but I've been coming here several times a year for the last 10 years or so. I was over here doing that in Topanga, so I was staying in the Palisades. right now and specifically to Westwood? I think this is the first interview I've ever done in Westwood.Īlex Trimble: We finished the record almost a year ago, but simply we've had time, I had more songs, so I've just been working on those while we've had a little bit of down time.