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(2/27/08): “We did figure out where each song fit best and the natural build of the record, putting ‘Some Things Last a Long Time’ kind of in the middle there as a little moment of rest or moment of clarity or some other insight or something like that. So we did really focus on it, it wasn’t random. …with that song, it just feels like a Beach House song. Something in it is haunting and obsessive but really gentle and delicate. Actually, we saw Daniel Johnston play last night in Baltimore and I got to meet him. I got to shake his hand and tell him that I was in a band that covered his song. It was just really crazy timing because our record’s coming out tomorrow and then he performed ‘Some Things Last a Long Time’ with a piano player from Baltimore playing these chords that I know so well and just singing by himself and shaking and holding the microphone with this small fragile voice. It was just the essence of that song, and we didn’t want to damage or beat that essence or try to think we could do it better. That’s not the point. When you cover music, it’s because you have an instantaneous attraction or connection to that song as an artist. Words can’t often describe it. So for that song, it was very emotional immediately, and our record is a very emotional record, I think. We just wanted to capture a little bit of its essence, not take it too much further than it is, and it ended up that that was one of the last songs that came together. It’s not that long, and we don’t do the whole song, …Which in the original version there is that essence, something going away and something being there on the wall and lasting. The chords are so simple and that’s also what attracted us. We being two people and not having a lot of other members and having two instruments, we’re trying to work from a pretty minimal level and trying to create things out of nothing, creating something more than would be imaginable from two people.” ~ Victoria, Ear Farm
(8/2/08): “We were listening to a lot of Daniel Johnston on one tour, and I think it was Victoria who said we should try and cover it. I think it was the same impulse as a seeing a kid playing with a toy and thinking ‘I want that’. It never really worked, but finally in the studio we re-did a few things, and thought ‘this feels like something we’ve done’.” ~ Alex, The Lumière Reader
(?/08): “I don’t know if he’s heard it. Victoria and I are huge fans of his. Last time I saw him was a year and a half ago. I didn’t say anything to him, but I think Victoria went up and said ‘Great job, just so you know we covered your song,’ and maybe gave him a CD, but I don’t know if he’s heard it.” ~ Alex, Owl and Bear
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