La Vérité
What inspires La Vérité to continue creating music?
We keep writing albums because of a mutual love for writing and performing our music, our art. If we stopped playing music, then it would be difficult to maintain some sort of creative significance out of our lives.
Your last release, This Divine Desolate City, was a great success, what’s next?
Well, our new album, “Elephant,” (Ed: See review here) is due out this March, then we’re hoping to play a lot of shows this summer, and start writing again. We’re also hoping to tour the states again and hopefully Europe within the next two years.We’re all going to school, and have other priorities.
Post Rock generates creative (and often lengthy) band and track names, how does La Vérité come up with these?
I think we usually title the tracks without regard to length, but we usually try to use titles that represent the song as accurately as possible with regard to emotion.
How does La Vérité decide which tracks will be on a release? testing them at gigs, or a different method?
We generally halt shows for an extended period of time for a writing binge. The songs we create in that period generally make it onto the album, not to say that we don’t carefully choose which songs make it. There have been several songs (especially on this release) that we have cut from the album completely. We root our decisions based on how much we bond with each song.
What have you been listening to recently that you would recommend to your fan base?
We all listen to a lot of different music, and a lot of it doesn’t necessarily reflect on what influences us. But, some of our favorites are: Radiohead, This Will Destroy You, Stars of the Lid, Bon Iver, Passion Pit, Tool, El Ten Eleven, Pompeii, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Bob Dylan, Owen, Mos Def, Atmosphere, MF DOOM… I think that’s a pretty fair representation of our music taste.
The obligatory political question: Can politics (whichever side of the road) solve global social problems? Discuss
I don’t think so. Politicians, in America, anyhow, haven’t really seemed to get anything right, to be honest, in the last decade or so.
The obligatory digital media question: We all know that digital downloads (legal or not) are changing the music business, would you say this is a challenge or an opportunity, and why?
Opportunity, without a doubt. It’s more important to us to have our music heard than to make a profit, though both are necessary
