Step Back was probably the only song on the record that was directly influenced by another song. Step Back Luscious Jackson, Naked Eye & Beck, Sexx Laws – MC I really wanted it to sound as wild as the guitars in this track. It was a huge reference when I was trying to find the right sound for the solo. O-Katrina! is one of my fave Black Lips songs and I absolutely love the guitar sounds in it. I’ve always been a huge LTC fan and have always dreamed of writing a song as fun as this cover. When I wrote Talk it felt like the energy and ‘vibe’ was pretty in line with fun, 90s pop. There is no song that captures the energy and fun of 90s female-led punk-pop than Letters To Cleo’s cover of I Want You To Want Me. Talk Letters to Cleo, I Want You To Want Me & Black Lips, O Katrina! – MC I think both those songs have a common ‘vibe’ but I didn’t really ever think about that until after recording and mixing the track. The Go-Go’s We Got The Beat was a reference that really how I made sense of the song in my head. I really wanted it to sound ‘chant like’ in the chorus and like something that people could scream out loud while they were driving, or something. Icona Pop’s I Love It was definitely the main reference for the chorus. Once it was done and we were ready to record it, I really felt like I really wanted it to feel like it was bursting with energy. When I wrote Feelings (the song), it all really came flowing out and it was written really quickly. I really think they are criminally underrated – just check out the manic urgency on this track! Definitely the vibe I had in mind originally for Bring My Walls Down.įeelings The Go-Go’s, We Got The Beat & Icona Pop, I Love It – MC Stone-cold Aussie classic – can’t seem to avoid their influence when coming up with tunes! I saw these guys live loads of times, and they were/are a fantastic live band as well. Bring My Walls Down was the first song we had for the album and the first song we tracked and once we’d finished it, I remember feeling like I wanted to make it sound like ‘a drunk cheerleader’. Something that was both gentle but also brutal at the same time. This was the first reference I found that really felt like it captured what we were trying to get across with the song. In particular, to this song Bring My Walls Down. Sleigh Bells’ sound played a really big role in the way Feelings (the album) shaped up overall. These are all really special songs to me because at each point in the songwriting process, they were either comforting or motivating me and inevitably, influenced the way this album came together.” Bring My Walls Down Sleigh Bells, End of The Line – MC “It’s probably a slightly broader pallet than most people would imagine, but I think the common thread across all of these songs is the balance of sweetness, attitude, power and pop. Their crowdfunding brought back a band born in the crowds of New York.“This is a collection of songs that influenced our album Feelings,” says singer, guitarist and lead songwriter, MC. The band financed its new album with a pledge drive online. "We're in Brooklyn and we're still making it work," Cunniff says. The band kept that lighthearted feel despite more than a decade off - a time of having kids and trying other careers. Luscious Jackson's new album, Magic Hour, sounds like a conversation between friends. In the years that followed, the group would begin playing in clubs themselves, have their songs heard on the radio and sign to the Beastie Boys' label, Grand Royal. "There were probably 20 of us, all underage, running around to clubs." "I remember meeting Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys in front of the UK Club at a Bad Brains show," says Cunniff. "It was all kind of colliding at the same time."Īnd in that mix in the early 1980s, the musicians made connections that served them for years. "We were all about 13, 14, and it was an amazing time, as far as not only bands playing but also the early rap scene and the breakdancing scene," Glaser says. Mark's Place, and I believe Kate, as well," Cunniff says. The group, known for the hit " Naked Eye," includes Glaser, drummer Kate Schellenbach and singer-bassist Jill Cunniff.
Glaser's lyrics suggest her connection to New York - a city where people still walk for miles, or meet people on the sidewalk the way the members of Luscious Jackson once did. "And you're just like, 'How can any human being cross the street that fast?'" You do step off the curb and then it changes to red," says singer-guitarist Gabby Glaser.
traffic light might give you three seconds to cross the street. The narrator lies awake longing to be in California, though it becomes apparent a New Yorker like her really wouldn't fit in: "It only takes just a little to get yourself lost."Ĭalifornia, we're told, is a land unfriendly to pedestrians, where an L.A. "3 Seconds to Cross," a new song by Luscious Jackson, begins somewhere in New York City.
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