"The intention we had before Dusk Stays was simply to make music with each other as friends. Fabian, Diego and I grew up in the same city never having known each other. We met in college and bonded over our shared musical interests. We really admired how some of our favourite bands, like Grizzly Bear, had locked themselves up in a house to make music. In Grizzly Bear’s case, it was in Cape Cod to write their album ‘Yellow House’.
So we figured 'Why not try it ourselves?!'

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That summer, we went back to Mexico to try an isolated music-making session. I remember sitting around a table to talk about what was going to happen over the next week. After we all shared our piece, we quickly realized that we were all on completely different pages. So then we figured ‘Let’s see where this takes us!’

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The end result of that week was Dusk Stays. Dusk Stays is the serendipitous combustion of everything we had to offer musically at the time. In it, you can tell that everyone was able to contribute what they wanted from the beginning.  

It became so much more than what we could have imagined when we melded our ideas together. The act of making music on the spot in a safe and confined space, under the limitation of a week to complete a record, allowed us to collectively let go of our insecurities and simply speak through our music. Letting the music tell us what to do was liberating. Once we were done, we were pretty proud of what we had achieved."

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- Michael Beckhart

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