HAIM on Dont Save Me

Don't Save Me was kind of like a, it was like a big deal for us
Because we had only released Forever and, um, when we released the Forever EP
We put it out for basically our friends
Like, we didn't think anything of it
We weren't like trying to, you know, do crazy things
We just wanted to show people that we could actually record
After being a band for six years and never releasing anything

Yeah, I think we just wanted a residency
That was like, that was our goal (yeah, that was like the big-)
In LA there's like-
'Cause you know the Monday night residencies in LA
Like, every venue basically on the Eastside opens its doors for free
And there's like one band that plays the whole month
And then they have like openers
So we would always do like, we would be like the openers for people that had the residencies
So we would be like "One day, one day we'll have our own"
"One day we'll have a residency at The Echo
And that still didn't even happen
We like released the Forever EP and were like "Can we have a residency?" and they're like-
"No"
And we were like "Cool, thanks"

Uhm, but uhm after the Forever EP came out
Yeah, we came to London for the first time and played London and-
Did The Great Escape and
Did all these amazing things and-
And then people were like, "Okay, where's the next song?" and we were like-
"What?" (like what are we? Why?)

Like we have the Forever EP and everyone was asking for new music
And we were so surprised 'cause we were like "Why?"
And so we went to Sunset Sound, which is like a legendary-
Yeah, it was like our first time in an actual really nice recording studio and-
It's like the dopest room ever
Prince did Purple Rain in there
Yeah, no big deal

Yeah, in that room
NBD, Petty did like, all of Damn Torpedoes
I sat on every chair
I was like "Maybe Prince sat on this chair"
I stepped on every-
Every crack (every crack)
Every part of the studio
But yeah, it's just, you know, it's kind of this iconic studio in L.A.

We literally did the Don't Save Me EP in like a week
Which was like, so fast for us
Like it was like the quickest thing we'd ever done and-
But it was really fun
It was so much fun