“We want to stay true to our thing, connecting with the audience through our lyrics and harmonies.”
recording the album with Mike Mogis. He’s an incredible producer and his studio is insane. It’s a huge room with killer equipment. When we were working on the demos for the album we realized some of the songs called for a bigger arrangement, like an epic, grand, movie soundtrack sound. We wanted to explore playing more with outside musicians to create an emotional dynamic range, without of course overshadowing the message of the songs and our vocals. We’re really happy with the end result. What is your songwriting process and how easily does it flow? Tere is no real method to what we do. All songs are written in different ways. We try to be as emotional and
intuitive as possible when writing. Te more we start analyzing the more tricky it gets to write, especially lyrics. Inspiration can strike at any time so we have a lot of little audio recordings in our phones. Usually a song starts with Klara - she figures out a line or a verse. Ten we get together and finish the song. We always write with just vocals and a guitar. Your voices blend beautifully. Do you think being sisters gives you an intuition that you may not have shared with other vocal partners? Te fact that we’re sisters makes it so much easier to harmonize. It’s a very intuitive, automatic process. We have similar tones and phrase in a similar
way. Usually it’s whatever harmonies I think of when we write a song that we end up using in the final recording. For us, figuring out the harmonies is the easiest part of arranging a song! Whenever we sing with someone else we’ve realized how tricky it is to follow them. Tere’s a lot we can take for granted when we sing together as sisters. Who are some of your favourite exponents of vocal harmomy past and present? Tere are so many! We’ve been inspired by old country brother duos like Te Louvin Brothers or Te Everly Brothers. We of course adore Simon & Garfunkel. Tey have some of the best harmonies in the world. It’s also great to listen to other sisters who harmonies. For example Kate & AnnaMcGarrigle, Te Staves and Te Roches. Fleet Foxes are a big inspiration as well. Do you have a favourite song to perform live (that you're BOTH agreed on)? It’s always special to perform ”Ghost Town”. It’s a song from our first record that means a lot to us both. We perform the song completely unplugged, step away from the microphones and ask everyone in the room to be silent. It’s such a cool part of the show where we really get to interact with the crowd. It’s an icebreaker. It’s awesome to see thousands of people being completely quiet for 5 minutes. You are only 21 and 24 respectively, yet there's a maturity and 'worldly wise' streak running through your lyrics and performances. What do you put that down to and do you think there is, in fact, something in the old cliche about Scandinavian melancholy? Oh …we don’t know. We always get told that we have ”old souls”. It’s a strange idea for us. We don’t think we’re any more mature than other people our age. We’ve always loved writing stories and listening to music that relies heavily on the lyrics. We think we’re just inspired by other country music which in general tends to have pretty dark themes. Tere probably is something to the cliche
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