<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\nHow did you guys meet?<\/strong><\/p>\nPho<\/em>: I used to throw a party with a couple of friends. Alana came and interrupted me while I was mixing. I pretty much ignored her but she was persistent. Then we got together and made a song.
\nAlanna<\/em>: It was really bad. We\u2019ve grown a lot since then.
\nPho<\/em>: When we started, I would do a re-edit of some interesting music, and Alanna would add vocals or sing a new song over it. We did a dancehall version of Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and we did a sort of 2-step version of Staring at the Sun by TV on the Radio. We started like that, but that was five years ago. It\u2019s changed a lot; it started off as a DJish project, now it\u2019s a live band.
\nAlanna<\/em>: I wasn\u2019t aware of the irony of putting \u201cindie rock\u201d with dancehall, or even the fact it was supposed to be clever to do a 2-step version of a TV on the Radio song. It was just the music that we liked and the resources we had. <\/p>\nWhich influences would you cite?<\/strong><\/p>\nPho<\/em>: The best way we can think of is that we\u2019re trying to do a Talking Heads to all the urban music of the last twenty years. When you listen to Talking Heads you can see how they loved disco and Fela Kutti and all that stuff; but they wanted to write songs in the rock tradition.
\nAlanna<\/em>: From my experience as an R&B singer, there\u2019s a lot of music that I love but almost every song is a love song or a love-gone-wrong song, where as with Talking Heads, they\u2019ll make you dance to a song about poverty or the government but you don\u2019t realise because its so rhythmic and uplifting.
\nPho<\/em>: Our record doesn\u2019t sound like Talking Heads at all, but it\u2019s about applying that way of thinking to if you love Timbaland or Bangladesh or Dancehall. <\/p>\n