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. This one, maybe a year, 18 months in the making. 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.

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