News

Minor Alps, on the question of more music and that song they worked on in Europe:

Juliana Hatfield : On n’a pas de projets. Matthew a commencé à travailler sur le prochain Nada Surf donc il va surtout faire ça et on n’a pas de projet après ce soir, notre dernière date. Aucun projet.

Matthew Caws : Si ! On a commencé à parler d’un enregistrement ! On a cette reprise…

Juliana Hatfield : On a aussi écrit une chanson sur scène.

Matthew Caws : Ah oui ça aussi !

Juliana Hatfield : On a écrit une partie de la chanson et on veut enregistrer cette reprise qu’on joue en live donc il y a ces deux idées.

Matthew Caws : Oui, c’est cool ! On ne sait jamais, peut-être que ça pourrait aller ensemble : on a ce refrain qu’on a écrit au début de la tournée et on ne sait jamais, ça pourrait être le couplet ce qui serait énorme. Parce que... c’est dur à dire. On a écrit le couplet le plus joyeux du monde… et puis il y a la reprise…

Juliana Hatfield : Il y a toujours d’autres trucs qui peuvent mener à des futurs trucs…

The full interview (en français) from the final night of the recent European tour in Paris can be read at Froggy's Delight. There's also a review of the show.

Thomy Keat's photo portraits used in the interview can be viewed in higher res at Taste Of Indie.

Matthew Caws, on the cover art for 'Get There':

It’s a photograph from the Olympic Peninsula, near Seattle. It’s not an Alp. We actually were messing around with a lot of photos of the Alps themselves; there were some really cool ones, night time ones, but it was hard to make them work. They were awesome, but really weird and dark. I’ve actually had a bad experience with that in the past, with a Nada Surf record we did called Lucky. You don’t always know how it’s going to print; you’re looking at your computer screen and thinking it looks great, but obviously the screen is generating light. You get the real thing and think “oh, man. This is not how I thought it was gonna look, it’s really fucking flat.” We love that picture too, though. It’s a nice fit, I think.

Dating back to their Manchester show in April, there's an interview with Juliana and Matthew published today at Drowned In Sound.

Juliana is billed to appear as part of a variety show at The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York on June 18, 2014.

'Meet Me In The Bathroom And Tell Me All Your Secrets' is curated by comedian Dave Hill and tickets are available via Ticketfly.

Another German radio interview at Radioeins (archived), including a live performance of 'I Don't Know What Do With My Hands'.

Towards the end of the interview, Juliana and Matthew say that although there are no firm plans for Minor Alps in the future (Matthew is returning to work with Nada Surf after the tour), they are "working on a new song".

Whoop.

Juliana's cover of Elliott Smith's 'Needle In The Hay' (from the previously announced Wes Anderson tribute album 'I Saved Latin!') was premiered by Paste in 2014. The same recording can now be heard and downloaded on American Laundromat Records' Bandcamp page.