Brazilian Girls return in 2018 with Let’s Make Love, their first album since 2008. Formed in 2003, the group—Sabina Sciubba (lead vocals, electronics), Jesse Murphy (bass, vocals), Didi Gutman (keyboards, vocals), Aaron Johnston (drums, percussion, vocals)—was born after the four members crossed paths at East Village club Nublu. “Somehow we all ended up at Nublu on a Sunday and it all came together,” says Johnston. The band began playing Nublu weekly, embracing a free-form ethos that helped shape their kaleidoscopic sound. “A lot of the spirit of the band comes from being so open to improvise like that,” says Murphy. Fast earning attention for their euphoric live show—and winning fans like Zach Galifianakis, who later cast Sciubba as a regular on Baskets—Brazilian Girls released their self-titled debut in 2005 and sophomore album Talk to La Bomb in 2006.
Produced by longtime Brazilian Girls collaborator Frederik Rubens, Let’s Make Love came to life over the course of several years. Since they’re now scattered throughout the U.S. and Europe, the four band members assembled when possible to write and record, piggybacking those sessions onto gigs in Istanbul and Madrid and Paris and New York. Despite the distance, Brazilian Girls consistently found their chemistry as kinetic as when they first started out. “It’s a little astounding to us because we’ll go so long without playing, and then we get together and things just happen in this very harmonious way,” says Sciubba.
Brazilian Girls bring a woozy romanticism to many tracks on Let’s Make Love. Opening the album with lead single “Pirates,” Sciubba notes of the modern-age new wave love song, “It’s a song about how we should all sleep more and sleep more together. It would change everything. Actually that's what the whole record is about. It may even be the true meaning of life." The album gets its title from a glorious anthem at the heart of the album. Like much of their latest record, the frenetic yet ethereal “Let’s Make Love” takes a more classically arranged form than the band’s earlier work. At the same time, both album and title track embody the quintessential spirit of Brazilian Girls: their strange balance of wildness and elegance, cheeky humor and fractured poetry, soulful mystique and libertine wisdom. “Right now ‘Let’s Make Love’ seems like a very good message to put into the world,” says Sciubba of the song’s inspiration. “It’s not even ‘Make love, not war’—it’s just ‘Make love,’ and nothing else.”
Verse 1 You - me in Manhattan and together living on a roof You - me are not sleeping together Sleeping together
Verse 2 You and me are not walking together going through the park You and me are now walking together Not working together
Verse 3 I count to 3 in disbelief I count to 3 how can it be? I count to 3 with my eyes closed
Verse 4 It’s only how we make it work It’s only how we make it work We make the best of it, no?
CHORUS Ah-ah Oh let us ‘ay in We lapsed dans la lune Me; they won’t let us sleep Relax de la nuit
Verse 5 Busy people walk out reach the sky as trucks are driving by Take my arm & I’m onto last exit it’s OK to wake us Busy people walk the sky as trucks are driving Take my hand and I’m of the logic that it’s OK to make up
Verse 6 I count to 5 we’re still alive I count to 5 we’re still alive I count to 5 with my eyes closed
Verse 7 Somehow we make it through the days like this one Make it through days like this one Make it through the days; I don't know how
CHORUS Ah-oh Oh let us fly in Relax dans la lune We; they won’t let us sleep Relax dans la nuit
Outtro You we and my mom have been together But not sleeping together
Brazilian Girls return in 2018 with Let’s Make Love, their first album since 2008. Formed in 2003, the group—Sabina Sciubba (lead vocals, electronics), Jesse Murphy (bass, vocals), Didi Gutman (keyboards, vocals), Aaron Johnston (drums, percussion, vocals)—was born after the four members crossed paths at East Village club Nublu. “Somehow we all ended up at Nublu on a Sunday and it all came together,” says Johnston. The band began playing Nublu weekly, embracing a free-form ethos that helped shape their kaleidoscopic sound. “A lot of the spirit of the band comes from being so open to improvise like that,” says Murphy. Fast earning attention for their euphoric live show—and winning fans like Zach Galifianakis, who later cast Sciubba as a regular on Baskets—Brazilian Girls released their self-titled debut in 2005 and sophomore album Talk to La Bomb in 2006.
ResponderEliminarProduced by longtime Brazilian Girls collaborator Frederik Rubens, Let’s Make Love came to life over the course of several years. Since they’re now scattered throughout the U.S. and Europe, the four band members assembled when possible to write and record, piggybacking those sessions onto gigs in Istanbul and Madrid and Paris and New York. Despite the distance, Brazilian Girls consistently found their chemistry as kinetic as when they first started out. “It’s a little astounding to us because we’ll go so long without playing, and then we get together and things just happen in this very harmonious way,” says Sciubba.
Brazilian Girls bring a woozy romanticism to many tracks on Let’s Make Love. Opening the album with lead single “Pirates,” Sciubba notes of the
ResponderEliminarmodern-age new wave love song, “It’s a song about how we should all sleep more and sleep more together. It would change everything. Actually
that's what the whole record is about. It may even be the true meaning of life." The album gets its title from a glorious anthem at the heart of the
album. Like much of their latest record, the frenetic yet ethereal “Let’s Make Love” takes a more classically arranged form than the band’s earlier
work. At the same time, both album and title track embody the quintessential spirit of Brazilian Girls: their strange balance of wildness and elegance, cheeky humor and fractured poetry, soulful mystique and libertine wisdom. “Right now ‘Let’s Make Love’ seems like a very good message to put into the world,” says Sciubba of the song’s inspiration. “It’s not even ‘Make love, not war’—it’s just ‘Make love,’ and nothing else.”
released April 13, 2018
Verse 1
ResponderEliminarYou - me in Manhattan and together living on a roof
You - me are not sleeping together
Sleeping together
Verse 2
You and me are not walking together going through the park
You and me are now walking together
Not working together
Verse 3
I count to 3 in disbelief
I count to 3 how can it be?
I count to 3 with my eyes closed
Verse 4
It’s only how we make it work
It’s only how we make it work
We make the best of it, no?
CHORUS
Ah-ah
Oh let us ‘ay in
We lapsed dans la lune
Me; they won’t let us sleep
Relax de la nuit
Verse 5
Busy people walk out reach the sky as trucks are driving by
Take my arm & I’m onto last exit it’s OK to wake us
Busy people walk the sky as trucks are driving
Take my hand and I’m of the logic that it’s OK to make up
Verse 6
I count to 5 we’re still alive
I count to 5 we’re still alive
I count to 5 with my eyes closed
Verse 7
Somehow we make it through the days like this one
Make it through days like this one
Make it through the days; I don't know how
CHORUS
Ah-oh
Oh let us fly in
Relax dans la lune
We; they won’t let us sleep
Relax dans la nuit
Outtro
You we and my mom have been together
But not sleeping together