Both Peter Katis and our own Peter are perfectionists, so they were insisting that every take had to be absolute perfection. Scott: Some! He’s a bit of a perfectionist. You can wander into the studio when you wake up, go lay some tracks down. Really cool and chilled out and we stayed in his house up in Bridgeport where the studio is based. Some of his albums he’s done are real different sounding so we liked the fact that he seemed really versatile and could make anything sound awesome. Scott: He’s done varied sort of work as well. Turn on the Bright Lights, the first Interpol record, is amazing. Pete: I liked basically everything he’s touched. Come check out my studio.”Īlisa: What album of his that made you appreciate his work. Scott: We never thought he’d even respond to us, but he emailed back and said, “Yeah, I’m into your sound. Pete: We liked his records and asked him if he wanted to make our record. Īlisa: You recorded this new album with Peter Katis of The National and Interpol fame. The first two tracks off of the EP are from the same album sessions and then the other two are home recording type demos, like the “Bible Belt” version and the other track was actually something that Pete and Matt recorded in our basement in Stratford. That’s so English of youĪlisa: Did you record the Weights and Measures EP around the same time that you recorded the Shallow Bed full-length? Pete: People playing tennis in the background.Īlisa: Ah! That’s why it’s called the field recording. You can hear birds chirping and stuff in the background. Matt: We set up in a little park near our house and recorded it. It was completely acoustic and kind of different to how we play it live. We just ripped the audio out of it because loads of people knew that version. Pete: The audio on EP of “Bible Belt” is from that video that we did online. That was a funny one, coming from just a half hour studio song to our most well-known song, I guess.Īlisa: It’s on a couple of released, right? You released it as a single? It was our first big online that we ever had. That was one of the first things where we got loads of hits. Pete: We did an acoustic session of it online, right at the start. We had the shell of it, Matt and I, and then we decided we needed another track for the EP so we churned it out in about a half an hour. That’s the old us coming through.ĭry The River, "Bible Belt," Shallow Bed, live in Studio AĪlisa: The song “Bible Belt’ is one of the first songs that you guys wrote together? Matt Taylor: Now we’re all playing this chilled-out music. Peter Liddle: I don’t know if I’ve ever said that, but it’s pretty accurate. The buzzy band, which landed on the BBC's Sound of 2012 longlist and wraps its Stateside tour this month, recently played a session for WFUV and The Alternate Side which you can hear now in WFUV's archives.īelow, check out interview highlights plus a live video of Dry the River's "New Ceremony" and an audio stream of "Bible Belt."Īlisa Ali: I heard that you described your music as folky gospel music played by a post-punk band? That heavier alter ego shows up frequently on Dry the River's confident debut, Shallow Bed, out now in the UK and set for release on April 17 in the States on RCA Records.ĭry the River - singer and former medical student Peter Liddle, violinist Will Harvey, drummer Jon Warren, guitarist Matt Taylor and bassist Scott Miller - also have a new EP, Weights & Measures, out now, which includes the title track, an acoustic version of "Bible Belt" and a Josh T. Although the genesis of British band Dry the River was rooted in Americana, folk and gospel, there's a muscular, harder-rocking edge that also defines the quintet.
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