Re-issue: Vagabon - Water Me Down

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Last year, Vagabon released her third album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, which I’ve been listening to a lot. So I wanted to revisit an episode that I recorded with her back in 2020, about her breakout song "Water Me Down." The episode also features the voice of Eric Littmann, who co-produced the track. He passed away in June 2021, way too young. Vagabon’s new album is dedicated to him. If you haven’t heard this episode before, I hope you like it.

When Laetitia Tamko started making the second Vagabon album, she really wanted to produce the entire thing on her own. It would be a new sound, and producing was still a relatively new skill to her, but she wanted to tackle it head on, and do it all herself. On this song, though, "Water Me Down," Laetitia actually has a co-producer, Eric Littmann. It’s the one exception to her otherwise entirely self-produced album. In this episode, she breaks down how she and Eric made the song, and why it was worth making that exception.

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0:43.4	Last year, Vagabond released her third album,
0:45.7	Sorry I Haven't Called, which I've been listening to a lot.
0:48.8	So I wanted to revisit an episode that I recorded
0:51.0	with her back in 2020 about her breakout song Water Me Down.
0:55.5	The episode also features the voice of Eric Littman, who co-produced the track.
0:59.6	He passed away in June 2021, way too young.
1:03.0	Vagabond's new album is dedicated to him.
1:06.0	If you haven't heard this episode before, I hope you like it.
1:10.0	When Laticia Tamco started making the second Vagabond album, she really wanted to produce the entire thing on her own.
1:18.8	It would be a new sound, and producing was still a relatively new skill for her, but she wanted to tackle it head on and do it all herself.
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