![]() ![]() THOM: I was really looking forward to playing that again and it was doing really well at triple j. #Alisa xayalith how to#And that song Alisa was talking about, we took some of those old demos and we were like: "ok, now we know what to do with them, now we know how to fix them".ĪLISA: Yeah, or like contextualise them in this new sonic world where we were going.ĪLISA: Well! We got to play a show for Wine Machine festival in Australia before everything closed down. And we took that approach with all the other songs, so Sunseeker sounds like that as well, there's a big kind of group vocal and then we perform the group vocal like a sample! But that song, Recover was like: "oh! This is it! Now we know which way we're going". But then the way we actually approached tracking this idea became the way that we produced the album, we recorded a bunch of us singing, turned it into a fake sort of choir and then we recorded all of these instruments all around her house, like in her hallway, used her grand piano.and we took all of these really raw live recordings, faking big groups - and then we sampled them! And we used those samples in a totally electronic way, we were like: "cool! We're done with all the live instruments, now we're just gonna use the computer". And then she sings the chorus of Recover. So, he being like a producer/co-writer, which was nice, I got to take my hands off the computer, which was fun! And so, him and I were waiting for Alisa to come back and she kind of like burst into her house, and storms into the room and she's like: "I've written a song on the drive over here". I was waiting at Alisa's house with our buddy, his name's Simon Oscroft, and he was kind of taking over for me in running the sessions. It was kind of interesting to actually put together both the writing and production for it, they were part of the same writing day. That was the first song we were like "oh cool! This is the way we'll take everything else". THOM: Yeah! It was really like the stylistic approach to the production and the tone of Recover. And then that was kind of like the coat-hanger song that all the other songs hung from sonically.and mood-wise. And so, we kept writing, kept writing, kept writing.and we didn't really hit our "eureka" moment until Recover was written. We'd written a song called Monument, and I was like: "this is a great song, but I just feel like we're missing something". And it's this uniquely cultivated journey Xayalith and Powers have traversed together that ultimately comes to vivid fruition on the pair's upcoming fourth album Recover, capturing acceptance, love and inclusivity amid a neon-clad sonic world overflowing with pop fizzes, synthy plumes and a whole lotta charm.ĪLISA: Well, there's a song on the record.ĪLISA: But going way, way, WAY back. Presently parked on three full-length albums (with a fourth just literal days away), as well as countless awards, critical acclaim and touring with some of the biggest names in the biz - it's safe to say The Naked and Famous are a group well-versed in surviving and thriving amid life and the industry's broader highs and lows. But for Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers, aka the powerhouse duo behind the Kiwi alt-pop sensation The Naked and Famous, even a relationship breakup between the two wasn't enough to tumble the dizzying orbit the group have been mounting since forming back in 2007. For many, the thought of spending time with an ex-partner after a breakup is not something generally relished. ![]()
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