The Lumineers
Bob Sweeney/WXPN
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Bob Sweeney/WXPN
The Lumineers
Bob Sweeney/WXPN
- “Identical Previous Music”
- “So Lengthy”
- “Cussed Love”
- “Gloria”
- “You are All I Received”
- “Gun Music”
For 20 years, Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites have been writing songs, recording and touring collectively as The Lumineers. However, as Schultz says, their relationship goes method past that.
“It is 20 years, and we additionally grew up in the identical hometown, the place he was mates with my youthful brother,” Schultz says. “I used to be mates together with his older brother, so it is, like, I bear in mind household journeys the place you and your brother got here with us.”
On this session, Schultz and Fraites speak concerning the newest journey they took collectively: making the brand new Lumineers album, Automated. They will carry out songs from it stay, together with a track about their friendship.
“[‘You’re All I Got’] sort of talks concerning the struggles of actually, like, if I’m going this manner, he feels it with this, like, rope,” Fraites says. “Typically, it is nearly just like the rope has, like, a barb in Wes’ abdomen and vice versa. He needs to go left and I wanna go proper.”
The band additionally talks about self-producing Automated and the best way their songwriting has modified over time.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod and Will Loftus. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams and our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.
