![]() This project has really tested my character, and I’ve learned how to trust myself and follow my instinct. “There are some times now where I’m able to let things be rougher around the edges, and it’s been fun calling all the shots. With a beautifully dreamy melody and glittery synths, the new track produced by Tyler Spry, Doug Schadt and Simon Oscroft captures the creative freedom she has been feeling. Creatively we have our own niche, but it’s been really liberating writing songs and building them in a different way.” There were some things I couldn’t explore in the band. Generally, there’s so much discussion around the sonic palette, production, writing, and lyrics. “I feel like The Naked and Famous have a lot of guard rails, just being in a band. I just put myself back in school and used that time to learn to be more self-sufficient, and it’s really paid off.”Įxploring her own personal narrative, the latest single High Fidelity is a love song, and the new EP in its entirety an ode to the love song. “Basically, I hate relying on other people, I like to get things done – and if I can do it myself, I’ll do it myself. I wanted to be on the right side of that fence!”Ī 30-day course in songwriting and production left her confident enough to record her own demos. “You could just see who could thrive using Zoom, and being self-sufficient in the studio vs people who weren’t. Coupled with extra motivation provided by the global Covid lockdown, Alisa took things a step further and started learning how to do her own production. She describes it as really digging in, and relishing taking complete control of working on her new own new releases. “It has always been something in me, but the pandemic was the perfect catalyst to explore that.” Her new project sees her returning to realise that solo dream. ![]() TNAF exploded surprisingly quickly from being local indie darlings to a bona fide international touring act, with all the complications that entails. Then she met Powers and they started the band which she fronted. A massive fan then of Bic Runga and other singer-songwriters like Feist, Fiona Apple and Bjork, she thought that was her pathway. When Alisa first got into music, as a young woman back in Auckland, she wanted to be a solo artist. “1000%! I’ve fallen back in love with writing music, it’s fun again! This project has restored the joy, and has been a healing process.” Now, some 18 months later, at the end of 2021, it’s very clear Alisa has gone through a monumental positive transition. I was anxious, I had low-grade depression, and I wasn’t sure about music anymore.” “I wasn’t mentally well after the record. With no contractual obligation to record another, Alisa is candid about how hard the last album was to make, and how much they all needed a break once it was done. The Naked and Famous released their fourth studio album ‘Recover’ in July 2020. Only leaving the house to walk her dog Ginger, or head down the road a few minutes to see ex-partner (and TNAF bandmate) Thom Powers, most of her time lately has been spent in the studio, writing and recording. Made with the support of NZ On Air Music.īased in Silverlake, about 15 minutes from Hollywood (which she describes as like mashing Ponsonby with Grey Lynn), Alisa Xayalith describes her life in Los Angeles as mostly confined to her immediate bubble. Felicity Farrell talked with Alisa about her debut solo EP, and brand new single High Fidelity. Already firmly part of New Zealand music royalty with nearly 15 years of local and global success under her belt as part of The Naked and Famous, Alisa Xayalith has recently emerged as a solo artist under her own name.
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