In the past, we would go on tour, then we’d have a couple of weeks off, and making everything at home whereas with this, we were going on tour but we had more time at home and more time to be in the studio. We worked with Mike Crossey ( The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, Twenty One Pilots), who helped us elevate what we’re good at and improve on what we’re not good at. I would send these guys the skeletons and then we spent four times as much time packing on the muscle. PK: I can divide songs into two sections: You have the skeleton of the song and then you have the backbone, the meat and the muscle. How did it come together? What was your state of mind during writing and recording? Some were good and some weren’t as good, then we realized this is an album.ĭescribe the recording process for Malibu Nights. It was a piano, vocal or a GarageBand demo of a song. I was writing every single day and at the end of every day, I would send them what I would call skeletons of songs.
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I just didn’t really feel like chilling and I needed to go into the studio everyday. We played 135 shows last year, so the schedule was to chill, relax, try a few things if we wanted to and then go into the studio late July or August and work on album two. What prompted such a quick turnaround for Malibu Nights? It comes less than two years after your debut album, LANY. I want us to stay true to who we really are.”Īhead of the release of Malibu Nights, LANY touched base with Billboard to discuss how this album differs from their self-titled debut, why this project is their bravest work yet and what their hopes and expectations are for the album. “I always want to stay the same as 2014 even though I want to progress, evolve and get better.
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Because of their extreme dedication to their craft, LANY is now stronger than ever, and have successfully managed to stay true to what fans have come to love about them since their formation four years ago. “I think it’s important no matter how big we get to stay true to how we’ve done it in the past,” says Klein.