Well, Woodsist later decided they were too busy to do a co-release and let me go. Anyway, the song got posted on Pitchfork and was announced as a forthcoming 7” to be co-released by Woodsist and Captured Tracks. Payseur also had this to say about the “Vacation” 7-inch: “My sister actually took the photo of me in Prospect Park in 2009 when she came to visit and I always liked it, it’s a double exposure film photo from a medium format camera.
These songs quite literally saved my life as well. When someone tells me that a song I wrote saved their life, that’s the most meaningful thing I could ever hear, it’s the reason I do it. It’s always there and it’s always necessary. No matter how much time has passed, that hungry feeling never goes away. “I still feel like it’s just the beginning having this band helps me grow and constantly teaches me new things. Nobody knew who I was so I thought, “what is there to lose?!” Well it turns out the answer is you have nothing to lose, and all of a sudden you turn around and you’ve been putting out records and touring for ten years.
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My goal was to channel it without changing it or owning it, the music was free to do what it wanted. “I was trying not to have any control over the music, to just let it come out of me. I was meditating a lot and learned that meditation could teach you to be at peace with these feelings, so with this album I wanted to create an environment where people could disappear and get lost for a little bit. I felt like the world was a cold, hard place and I knew a lot of other people felt that way too.
I was burned out and needed to write songs that made me feel better. In my mind I was escaping New York, I was escaping loneliness, I was escaping hunger. Being hungry and lonely and terrified and naive made me passionate about making music because I had nothing to lose.
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I was new to New York, my apartment was horrible, it was full of mice and always flooding, I had no money to buy groceries so I was just starving all the time, but I was constantly working on music and that’s all that mattered. Also below are Beach Fossils upcoming fall tour dates with Wild Nothing, which probably won’t happen, but you never know.įrontman Dustin Payseur had this to say about the reissue in a press release: “Wow, ten years… what the fuck? A friend recently asked me if it feels like it’s been a decade since the first Beach Fossils record came out-the answer is yes and no. Check out “Time” below, followed by the reissue’s tracklist and cover art. New York-based band Beach Fossils have announced a 10th anniversary reissue of their 2010-released self-titled debut album and have shared a previously unreleased song from the reissue, “Time.” The reissue will come with a 7-inch for “Vacation,” with “Time” as the B-side, as is due out this fall via Bayonet (the extra release date is TBA).