They applied the same principles to the rest of the songs, recording themselves as a big group and sampling that. The Naked and Famous Return, Dance Away the Shadows in 'Sunseeker' Video: Watch It’s something I’ll always be recovering from, something I’ll always be thinking about.” “That grief is such a singular grief specific to me. “There are moments I wish I could share with her, like buying my first home or introducing her to my boyfriend,” she says. They laid a lot of ideas down at Xayalith’s Silver Lake home, but nothing was “it” until she sang about the mother she lost in childhood. Oscroft joined the band in L.A., and Powers’ girlfriend, indie pop singer-songwriter Luna Shadows, got in the mix, too. If we were going to work with collaborators, I wanted them to be with people that I had real chemistry with.” It’s a great process, but it’s very exhausting … and the vast majority of them are very uninspired. meet a new person every day and write a new song. “There’s a whole circuit of people doing it in L.A. “I was a bit jaded by the process of collaborating with strangers,” Powers says. The songs were meant for a solo project, but Xayalith heard TNAF in their hooks. A fellow Kiwi and lead guitarist for the band Midnight Youth, he’d been close with her and Powers for a decade. Xayalith took a trip to New York City to write with her friend Simon Oscroft. Sonically, it glows with a warm, golden light even as their voices build beautiful tension by repeating the phrase “nothing changes.” “It’s not personal, every time you leave I have to heal.” The layered vocal chorus comes in bright over a tropical rhythm. “It’s just everything you make me feel,” Powers sings over an electric ballad beat. The song “Easy” captures these slow battles. Any confrontation we have or disagreement can become a perfect stalemate, which doesn’t go anywhere.” “Alisa and I, we have to work everything out between the two of us, which means we have a democracy of two, which is a benevolent dictatorship of two. “I had to do a lot of cost-benefit analysis of what the band means to me,” he says. “I fully support their decision and completely understood why they wanted to do it … but when they left, it was like, ‘Wow, these guys have been in this band through all of my formative years.’ What does this mean? What am I doing? Does Thom want to leave the band, too?’” “I just totally had a freak out and panic,” Xayalith says.
as a band, but after the tour of Simple Forms, the background trio spread their individual wings and flew away. They toured the world together, grew up together, and even emigrated to L.A. They had the important job of mitigating the band leaders’ creative differences. Aaron Short, Jesse Wood and David Beadle didn’t just conjure kaleidoscopic chords on stage. She and Powers have always been the musical brain, but The Naked and Famous was a five-piece band. “It’s cool to be able to be in your thirties and have written an album that’s a lot more colorful and has a lot more hope and healing running through it.”
“It’s really cool to have an album that isn’t just about heartbreak, devastation, sadness and loneliness, which is basically the last two records that documented our mid-twenties,” Xayalith says. Music won in the end, and today (July 24), fans are gifted a 15-track package that dares to be cheerful in the face of sorrow while expanding the band’s sunshine sound. Friends were lost, Powers almost died (more on that later), and six months went by where Xayalith and Powers didn’t talk to each other at all. It’s had a messy birth, fraught with starts and stops, fights and joyous outbursts. The Naked and Famous Celebrate Debut Album's 10th Anniversary During Billboard Live At-Home…
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