You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,
and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishi K. Shirwe.
In this episode, Jimmy LaValle from The Album Leaf breaks down his song, The Outer Banks.
The Album Leaf is primarily a solo project, but for The Outer Banks,
Jimmy collaborated with members of the Icelandic band Sigur Rós.
Coming up,
Jimmy strips the song down to its parts and talks about the value of letting go of control during recording.
Here's The Outer Banks by The Album Leaf on Song Exploder.
My name is Jimmy LaValle and I do The Album Leaf.
Sigur Rós in 2001 asked me to tour with them.
I had never heard of them at the time and it was when The first record came out.
Yeah, I'm not going to even say it.
I think that's how you say it.
Basically, I guess they picked up my record that was out at the time in 2001,
which was One Day I'll Be On Time at a record shop in Iceland.
Then they all heard the record and invited me on tour.
2001 was my first tour with them.
2003 was my second.
Kind of my backing band for that 2003 European tour turned out to be Carrie,