HAIM on Let Me Go

Host: Let Me Go is also a bit of a live favorite.

Este and Danielle: Yeah.

Host: Was that a hard one to record?

Danielle: It was. Well it wasn't too hard to record-

Alana: It wasn't The Wire hard.

Este: Nothing, nothing is The Wire hard.

Alana: It was-

Danielle: We kinda just wanted to keep the live element and we played it live in the- that was one that we just kind of like played live in the studio and-

Alana: I got to play this dope organ, it was like this huge organ. I remember kind of screwing up on purpose cuz I just kept, I wanted to keep recording it cuz it just sounded so cool. Ariel was like-

Este: "Alana!"

Alana: "Play it right this time!"

Este: I was playing the um-

Host: "Why did the Don't Save Me album take so long, Haim?" "Alana with her organ!"

Este: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Alana: "Alana took five years to record her organ part!" Um, but yeah that song was really fun, at least really fun to record for me because I got to, it was kind of like I got to try out so many keyboards and organs for the background part. But, um yeah with that song it was just really important for us to keep it live and not really screw it up, just screw around with it cuz I think it's just really straight forward.

Host: It's the drums part you play live as well?

Danielle: Yeah, it's not on the record because we feel like-

Alana: Well we just like, we keep, we like to change up the drum part every time we play it and we didn't really want to put it, I'd rather it be a surprise every time and not just like on the record. It's kind of like yeah just always, that part always evolves. And so yeah it's just not, it's more of a live surprise than a record surprise.

Host: That's the great thing about having an album and then going to see a band live. If it sounded exactly the same, you could just stay at home

All: Yeah.

Host: Just turn it up a bit louder. Save yourself twenty quid or whatever.

Alana: Yeah.

Este: Right?

Host: But you get to be more, you know, experimental in the studio, put in different sounds, turn the songs into something else and then when you play them live, you can do the same thing in a different way.

Alana: Exactly.

Host: I think that's the good thing about your album, is that it-

Este: Now you're talking like a Haim sister.

Alana: Yeah.

Este: Now you're talking like a Haim.