- About halfway through the album process,
we had a different title
that we went into the album recording,
like, we thought it was gonna be a different title,
but then halfway through, we weren't really thinking
that the music represented the title that we had in mind.
It was something that Cole randomly saying
during a writing session for a song
and he was singing and then he just went,
"Tell me that it's over, tell me that it's over."
And we're like, "OK."
And then that became the actual lyric in the song.
And I remember just bringing up to Dylan,
"What if it was called, 'Tell Me That It's Over'?"
And then it was kind of a light bulb moment, you know,
and then we basically just committed to that and found,
you know, meaning in the songs for that title.
So it all just kind of happened very naturally
and just, kinda, like, it was like, that is in
"I Don't Want To Talk" and we should call it that.
And it just, it felt
like a cool album title to us at that moment.
- Hey, MTV News, we're Wallows,
and these are our top five bands.
- My favorite band is The Beatles
because that is why I play music,
that is why I'm in this band,
that's why I'm talking to you right now.
Because when I was about 10 years old,
my dad played me all the Beatles records.
And I was like, "Whoa."
It was this amazing experience hearing
'Sgt. Pepper's [Lonely Hearts Club Band]'
for the first time on vinyl.
And you know they're my favorite singers,
my favorite songwriters.
So yeah, The Beatles are definitely number one.
- One of my favorite bands is a band called
The Cleaners From Venus.
I'm still kind of new to their music,
sort of discovering them more recently
but they are just really, really ahead of their time.
You know, you hear their songs -
What is it, from, like, eighties?
- Yeah.
- Eighties, and they sound like
a lot of the alternative sort of guitar music
that's being made today.
So clearly, you know, their DNA is, you know,
they were pretty influential.
So I don't think that music would be the same,
some of more, my more favorite modern bands
wouldn't be the same without that band
just kind of existing.
- Third favorite band in no particular order here,
we're not going in order, is I got to say, it's really hard.
I can name off like literally at least 25 bands right now
but I'll just roll with Arcade Fire.
Arcade fire is, I think, just in our DNA,
like, we grew up all just, like, worshiping that band
at different points in our lives.
And I feel like it's a very influential band on our music.
They have, sort of, larger than life feeling albums
and super anthemic and emotional
and just not afraid to really go there.
And I feel like that is inherently sort of in our music.
Like, if you put on 'Nothing Happens' or something
there's a lot of Arcade Fire influence in that.
And Cole and I shared, like, when we were 14, we
went to Coachella for the first time in 2011,
Arcade Fire headlined that year and that was, like,
a really pivotal moment for us as little, like,
young musicians just seeing this, like,
unbelievable live show.
And they dropped all these balloons on the crowd.
It was like, it's a pretty,
it's an iconic Coachella headline performance, but -
- It was insane.
- Another one of our favorite bands, in no particular order,
is The Libertines. Classic British band.
One of my favorite songwriters of all time.
Pete Doherty is in that band.
He's one of my favorite singer-songwriters ever really,
and huge influence on our early music and early writing.
And I think their first two albums are some of the best
of that era and of all time.
So I think, and they're just amazing live performers
and just, like, true artists.
I really do think they're true artists to that degree,
just fantastic musicians.
- Last but not least the band Vampire Weekend.
We all grew up, you know, sharing, you know,
just a love for their albums.
You know, we had the honor of working
with our producer, Ariel [Rechtshaid],
who worked on their third and fourth,
'Modern Vampires [of the City]'
and 'Father of the Bride.' Knowing 'Modern Vampires'
and then when 'Father of the Bride' came out,
that's really when we started to pay a lot of attention
to Ariel's work, I think, and you know decided, like,
wow, it'd be really cool to work with this person someday,
and it happened. We've also done a few shows here and there
with them and have gotten to meet them, which, you know,
the teenager inside all of us is, you know,
freaking out over that if we could somehow -
- Yes.
- You know, communicate that message to our past selves,
you know, it'd be insane and yeah, just something
about that band is so collegiate feeling.
So when I hear those records it's nostalgic for, you know,
school and being a teen transitioning
into my adulthood and yeah, just they're legends.
- I think bands that have, like, each, kind of, member
brings something different to the table,
I think probably makes up the best band.
Like examples, The Beatles, The Clash, I think bands
that, like, each member has their own distinct style.
- Strokes.
- Strokes, yeah I mean, I think also the bands
that aren't willing to settle in a sound you know,
bands that are willing to progress and try new things
and not really let any, kind of, preconceived notions
of what your sound is or what people think your sound is
get in the way and it should only be writing
from a place of inspiration or where you're at in your life,
so, to some degree.
So I think that's probably what makes the best band,
and I hope that we are, you know
achieving that to some degree.
- I think The Beatles and Radiohead
are the perfect examples of that.
- If they had
been afraid to experiment or, like, listened to the haters,
if you will, they, we wouldn't have
some of the best music of all time so it's -
- Yeah, they have longevity for that reason.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
- We've always made music that we like and are proud of,
but for me personally, I feel like this is the first time
that I'm listening to something that I, like, know
without question that I would, like,
if I heard it from someone else and it's a good feeling.
It's hard to achieve that, you know, where you're, like,
but I, like, it's hard to come at it
from an unbiased perspective and sort of imagine a world
in which you're reacting to it if someone else had made it.
And I think that we just are really proud
of every aspect of this record.
And I really like to stand by it.
Our fans have, like, really been really responsive
to the projects we put out, particularly our album,
'Nothing Happens' and I think it's nice to see
that these people are open to letting this album in
in the same way they let in 'Nothing Happens.'
So I hope that in three years time,
'cause 'Nothing Happens' is three years old,
these songs are resonating with them
and have a special place in their heart,
in the same way that the song off our previous projects do.
So that's what I hope is, like, in the long run,
it's just as special to them 'cause this to us is, I think,
our most special to us personally that we've made yet.