On the TVs inside the restaurant, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is burning.
Koenig doesn’t live in this neighborhood; he simply likes this spot and some of the shops nearby.
The 35-year-old singer-songwriter has a hard time admitting he lives in Los Angeles at all.
He’s got stuff in storage.
“There’s no part of the world that I understand better.”
“He’s the rare dude where we just take our time,” Koenig says of Rechtshaid.
The producer says the album was “ultimately a product of proximity and friendship.
Another major tentpole of the project: duets.
“I always knew I wanted there to be these duets.”
That first take is still what lives on the record in its final form.
“He’s very precise,” Haim says of Koenig.
“He means business in the studio.
He’s serious in a good way, like, ‘Let’s get this down.’
But he gave me the freedom to put my own twist on things.”
An added goal was making a “true double album,” a vision forFOTBfrom its earliest days.
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Personal history and the way the light hits and smells, all that stuff,” he says.
I like the weirdness of that, but…" He noticeably trails off.
“Our family’s the most important thing in my life.
This sucks,'” Koenig says.
They’re all gonna hear the music through different lenses."
Like his bandmates Chris Baio and Chris Tomson, Koenig worked on a lot of outside projects.
The next six months “are going to be pretty wild,” especially for this first-time father.
“I’m going to be experiencing all sorts of emotions for the first time,” Koenig says.
“It’ll take some figuring out.
