Artist Interviews

Q&A: Dag för Dag

By | Published on Wednesday 3 March 2010

Dag för Dag

Formed in 2007, Dag för Dag are a Swedish-American indie band based in Stockholm, with the core being brother and sister duo Sarah and Jacob Snavely. The band first toured in 2008 with The Shout Out Louds, and have since gone on to support The Kills, Wolf Parade, Lykke Li, Handsome Furs, Wintersleep and Cursive. They released their debut EP ‘Shooting From The Shadows’ last summer via Saddle Creek Europe, and their debut album, ‘Boo’, came out last month on Cargo Records. Ahead of a gig at The Garage in London on 8 Mar, we caught up with Sarah to find out more.

Q1 How did you start out making music?
I started out playing violin at the age of five and have always been fiddling around with some sort of instrument. But Jacob and I didn’t come together as a musical pair until late summer of 2007, when we were given the free use of a rehearsal space, and then a lot of pent-up musical desires came out!

Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Past demons, reverb, and the joy of the live show.

Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
Most happens in our rehearsal space. In general, one of us starts playing something and the other joins in, while we each write our own lyrics quite separately from one another. We are always amazed that they work when we put them together! We have quite specific rhythmical ideas, and direct the drummer initially, but definitely do allow him to write his own parts once the basic structure of the song has been established by us two. Songwriting is fortunately a rather effortless process for Jacob and me together… some sort of sibling witchcraft must certainly be involved.

Q4 Which artists influence your work?
PJ Harvey, Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade, The Walkmen, Yo La Tengo, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi

Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Imagine no one’s watching you. Let your heart react to its truest extent. And I hope this person is seeing us live. If not, I would urge the person to check out one of our shows, where Dag för Dag can be much more understood and accessed, where we can explain the sounds through the tools of the stage.

Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
To play play play record record record release play play record, and keep going on until arthritis slams the music out of us.

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