Re-issue: Kelela - Rewind

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In November 2015, I interviewed Kelela about her song “Rewind,” from her debut EP, Hallucinogen. Since that EP was released, she's gone on to collaborate on songs with Gorillaz and Solange, and released her first full-length, Take Me Apart, which was named one of the Top 10 albums of 2017 by Vulture, Pitchfork, Cosmo, and a bunch of others. So I wanted to go back and revisit Kelela’s episode, which originally came out in January 2016. Here it is:

Kelela is a singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. In 2015, she released Hallucinogen EP, and landed on critics lists in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Pitchfork, and more. In this episode, Kelela takes apart her song “Rewind.” To make the track, she worked with five different producers, picking and choosing each for what they could best contribute to her overall vision for the song. This interview was recorded live in San Francisco at Fusion’s Real Future Fair.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece,
0:05.0	tell the story of how they were made.
0:06.7	I'm Rishikesh Herway.
0:09.0	In November 2015, I interviewed Kaleila about her song Rewind from a debut EP.
0:17.3	Since that EP was released, she's gone on to collaborate on songs with Gorillas and
0:20.6	Salange and she released her first full length, Take Me Apart, which was named one of the
0:24.4	top ten albums of 2017 by Vulture, Pitchfork, Cosmo, and a bunch of others.
0:29.7	So I wanted to go back and revisit Kaleila's EP, which originally came out in January 2016.
0:35.0	Here it is.
0:39.4	Kaleila is a singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles.
0:42.9	In 2015, Trulist Hulusonajin and landed on critics lists in the New York Times, The Washington
0:48.2	Post, Pitchfork, and more.
0:50.6	In this EP, Kaleila takes apart her song Rewind.
0:53.5	To make the track, she worked with five different producers, picking and choosing each for what
0:57.4	they could best contribute to her overall vision for the song.
1:00.8	This interview was recorded live in San Francisco at Fusion's Real Future Fair.
1:05.6	Now here's Kaleila on Song Exploder.
1:07.8	I take my chances and know that I'm falling.
1:11.5	I'm best when I'm next to you.
1:14.5	Because I'm heating up all your weight in my mind.
1:18.0	I know that I'm stalling to leave me behind.
1:22.2	I had the intention to make a Miami-based inspired song that gave me butterflies or that
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