It was years later when we were like, “Oh, we’ve been doing that, and that’s one of our strengths.” “Beauty Of The Road” was maybe the first song we wrote for this record, and that set the tone. It was years of making this music that was really fun to dance to and compulsive but if you listen to the words, maybe there’s something weaker about it. When you’re exploring yourself as an artist, you’re also dealing with things that are in life. When we were 18-year-old kids and first started writing, it was writing music to play house parties and have fun with our friends. There’s that hope that hope is the thing that keeps us alive. I think we explore (the idea) that there are heavy times, but then there is light on the other side. Samuel Herring: That’s actually something that’s always been a thing in music, too. I think, thematically, the record lends itself to the road it’s about the road and also the good albums to listen to while you’re out on the road. The three of us in a room, we just put a drum machine on and I think we favor the four-on-the-floor type of beat, so maybe that’s caused it to be more driving. William Cashion: When we’re writing songs, we don’t really talk about what we want the songs to do it’s just what comes out. Especially right now, when there’s so much negative energy out there, every time I put this album on, I feel inspired or happy. Even when the songs are lyrically addressing topics that could be interpreted as sad, there’s still this momentum and hope to all of it. One thing I noticed about it is-and I feel like this is kind of one of your trademarks: There’s this sort of forward motion to it at all times. I was very excited to get it early and feel all cool and VIP. Enjoy our convo! -Andy SambergĪndy Samberg: I’ve been listening to the new album, The Far Field, and I love it. This interview went great and is going to change the world, and the guys in the band are now my best friends. Even when their songs are about sad things, they still feel uplifting, which is hard to pull off, and because of that I listen to them a lot. They’re great, and their music makes you feel good. I first heard Future Islands while I was working at Saturday Night Live. In conversation with actor/comedian Andy Samberg, the Baltimore band sheds light on its aspirations and inspirations. The visceral, soulful synth-pop of Future Islands serves as an emotional rescue from modern life. It was listed again in late 2007 for $7.475 million, but there were apparently no takers until now.Here’s an exclusive excerpt of the current MAGNET cover story. The property last sold for $900,000 in 1999, according to Zillow, and was listed in 2006 for $9.989 million, then chopped that same year to $8.989 million. Moorcrest is in great shape now, having been recently restored to its full, multi-cultural, elaborate glory, and features "leaded stained-glass windows, copper and marble baseboards, custom cabinetry, hand-painted frescos and elaborate mosaic tiles." Its grounds total nearly an acre and include a pool, as seen in the above photo. It was eventually foreclosed-on and sold at auction in 1934 for $21,500, about a tenth of its estimated value at the time. Actress Mary Astor's mother and father, Otto and Helen Langhanke, purchased it in 1925 and lived there with Astor for nearly ten years. Hotchener designed other house in the area, as well, but this is the one she's famous for.Ĭharlie Chaplin tramped on in and rented the house at some time in the early 1920s. The four-bedroom, six-bathroom Moorcrest was designed by Marie Russak Hotchener, a rare female architect (at the time), and was originally part of the legendary Krotona Colony, a group within the Theosophist Society that tried for about a decade to build a utopian community in Beachwood Canyon, then ended up ditching the compound for Ojai. The early-1920s house, home to Maltese Falcon actress Mary Astor and little tramp Charlie Chaplin over the years, wasn't on the open market Samberg and Newsom closed on it in late March for $6.25 million. Ex- Saturday Night Live cast member and general funnyman Andy Samberg and harpist/singer/songwriter Joanna Newsom have, somewhat surprisingly, just purchased the famous Moorish-Gothic-Art Nouveau-Mission Revival estate in Beachwood Canyon known as Moorcrest, reports the LA Times.
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