In a brand new inerview with Vulture, Moist Leg spoke to David Byrne about songwriting, touring, the Isle of Wight and extra, and Moist Leg’s Rhian Teasdale additionally spoke about protecting Speaking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” observe reside.
When requested how he cam throughout Moist Leg’s music, Byrne mentioned, “I don’t bear in mind. It may need been on some web site. It may need been in {a magazine} that talked about you guys. Like lots of people, and I’m actually not alone right here, I clicked to take heed to the early songs — the 2 that had been launched first, “Chaise Longue” and “Moist Dream” — and I cherished them. Instantly added them to my playlist of what I used to be listening to that month. I used to be not alone there, I quickly found. It was sort of like, “Get in line!””
Talking about protecting Speaking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”, Teasdale mentioned, “It was only a tune that I’d grown up with my dad enjoying round the home. I believe it’s a cool tune that’s actually enjoyable. It’s an attention-grabbing tune to tackle as a girl. It all the time instantly hits otherwise if you take a tune that’s written from a male perspective after which a girl sings it. It simply sounds completely different. I believe among the finest covers are those that someway you’ll hear one thing completely different in them. That was fairly a straightforward one for us to land on.”
Byrne added, “I don’t [perform “Psycho Killer”] fairly often now. It was the primary tune I wrote and I sort of did it simply to see if I might write a tune. And I found, Oh sure, I can! After which I began instantly writing songs that had been completely different than that. Although that one was extremely popular. I bear in mind I assumed, I wished to write down about this dramatic topic in a non-dramatic means. I wished to write down from inside this particular person’s head. It was not going to be a slasher film. It was going to be a bit of bit calmer than that. No less than that’s what I used to be pondering. I initially wished it to be extra of a people tune. We did a model with cellos and acoustic guitars and issues like that and that was the way in which I imagined it needs to be — this people tune versus a rock tune. However that model wasn’t so common.”
Final month Barack Obama included Moist Leg’s “Angelica” in his 2022 summer season playlist.
