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“It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.”

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Faris Badwan

Faris Badwan, born on September 21, 1986, is a versatile artist active in various fields. His professional category is not clearly defined, but he has delved into music, performance, and visual arts. more

“I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.”

Thinking Knows Feels Shows Quitting Our Time Consistently Drummer

Author:Theresa Wayman

“We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.”

Feels Years Wanted Records Growing Fans Needed Band Findings Labels Los Angeles Record Labels

Author:Theresa Wayman

“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.”

Years States Whole Shows Song Half Records Happened Changed Happenings Trade West Rough Coast West Coast

Author:Theresa Wayman

“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs, because they were determining how they needed to lock in together, and Stella was still kind of learning and figuring out her parts.”

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Author:Theresa Wayman

“I feel like that for the next album, we're going to know what we're doing for each song even more than what we did for this one, just because we'll have really fleshed them out as a band before recording.”

Knows Feels Song Next Band Albums

Author:Theresa Wayman

“We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there going: "oh god, I don't want to interrupt this, but... we've got to get things moving along..." We're just easily distracted because we want to be writing all the time!”

Men Want Writing Moving Sound Band Sitting Frustrating Distracted Jam

Author:Theresa Wayman

“That's very hard because there's three of them that mean a LOT to me equally. 'Lissie's Heart Murmur' was one of the first songs that we ever wrote - it was one of the first songs, at the very very very beginning of our band and I've always wanted to see and hear that song recorded and turned into something and it finally was and is!”

Firsts Heart Mean Hard Wanted Song Three Band

Author:Theresa Wayman

“We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to me because it's actually - we've had that song for many years now and it's changed so many times, it's been through every reincarnation of our band with every drummer, with sometimes with me playing drums, it was when we were a three-piece, every incarnation of the band that we've had we have played that song.”

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Author:Theresa Wayman

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