Nikki: Yeah I was gonna say, did they kind of factor into other songs? Like bits and pieces, rough drafts?Дustin: We would reuse ideas, it was more like a sketchbook. We didnвЂ™t throw everything away though, it was a lot of recycling. We just kept writing to the point that literally all of those songs, we lived with them for so long, that they just got phased out. We just kept being like вЂњoh letвЂ™s write some moreвЂќ because it never felt finished. Jack: I think thatвЂ™s how it became so new-sounding.Дustin: I mean we had a finished album 3 or 4 different times and none of those songs made it onto the one we put out. NB: And you feel like that gave you the freedom to really come into yourself? We had so many songs and we had like a whole album finished of different songs and we just trashed all of those.

Jack Doyle Smith: I think the blessing of this album is getting to take our time. Address these two years, maybe, of demos and really wrap our heads around what was the best version of all of that, down to eleven songs. We were able to spend that much more time saying, вЂњoh, hereвЂ™s a writing session we did for a few monthsвЂќ take off three or so months, and come back to it. Because of that, we were able to take our time. Tommy Davidson: It was the first time that Dustin was releasing on his own label, Bayonet, with his wife, Katie Garcia, the manager. So, I think a big thing was that we werenвЂ™t even thinking about an album, just a song at a time, and we had no idea if it was going to work with the other ones in an album context, but that doesnвЂ™t really matter because the point is that weвЂ™re just making something that we like. Stylistically-weвЂ™re always listening to and getting into new things and we were sharing songs and getting inspiration from textures. Nikki Barnhart: What was new about making this album from anything in the past?Дustin Payseur: There were a lot of huge changes actually, the biggest one being that it used to be just a solo project for me, and then, you know, Jack and Tommy, we wrote together for this record. Not that I had any doubt, but now I have concrete evidence that they are probably, almost definitely, the chillest guys on the Brooklyn scene, and have pretty dope style to boot.

We also talked aboutВ how many вЂњpostsвЂќ we need to put after вЂњshoegazeвЂќ now, (perhaps accidentally) normcore younger cousins, why we canвЂ™t stop thinking about our elementary school cafeterias, whether New YorkвЂ™s still got it (it does), and most importantly, their true feelings on both the beach itself and kickstarting the вЂњbeachвЂќ band-name trend. Martens show at Elsewhere and talk about what changed in the making of their latest album, Somersault,В was pretty cool. IвЂ™ve loved Beach Fossils for a really long time, so the chance to interview them before their Dr.

The fossils song