Little Daylight, courtesy.

Brooklyn synth-pop trio Little Daylight have visited San Francisco at least twice in 2013, but you may not have seen them if you’re not a fan of Bastille, whom they opened for both times. Singer Nikki Taylor chatted as she was rushing to find a quiet place after getting coffee. We touched on many topics, and they were so different that it was hard to squeeze them into a traditional story.

Catch the show April 21 at the Independent. Read the full feature with Nikki Taylor, and watch videos from a show.

You’ve gotten your hands on a lot of other artists’ songs. Where did this interest in remixing other peoples’ music come from?

When we started the band, we started with the idea to do remixes and our own music at the same time. We had original songs that we were working on … it just happened that the remixes came out first. It was a faster process to create them, and it was faster for us to put them out. It was fun for us to work on them, and over that entire time, we were working on our originals.

How does your full-length debut album, Hello Memory, (out this summer) compare to your Tunnel Vision EP?

It takes a lot of the ideas on the EP and expands from there. The only song that’s on the EP and the album is Overdose. We wrote nine new songs for it. There are some bigger, poppier, glossier a la “Glitter and Gold” and “Overdose.” Then we have some darker things in there and a little bit more of a journey into it.

Tell me something interesting about each of you.

Matt is a very talented guy in many different things. He’s a fantastic chef. He occasionally makes dinner for us and all of our team members, and everything he makes is amazing. He’s also an excellent photographer, so he took almost every single one of the photos that we used for our remix covers. And our EP cover, even though we didn’t design it ourselves, the little pieces of photos that are in there, they’re all Matt’s photos.

(Eric) is a very sporty guy. Actually, they both are. Zeiler is a big fan of basketball. He’s always out there on the court. He always brings a football with us, and he’s out there with Matt in the parking lot.

I love to travel. I’ve been to almost every country in Central America at least once, if not twice. It’s one of my favorite places on earth. I love hanging out in the jungle.

What’s your favorite country in Central America?

When I went to Honduras (in 2006), it was really special. We were off the tourist path because there’s not so many tourists that go through there. We went to this huge lake that in any other country would have tons of hostels and motels, and there was only one hotel, and we were the only people in it. We had this huge lake to ourselves and the fishermen. We kind of almost died though. The roads in Honduras are shitty, and we were driving in a rainstorm down the side of a mountain. There were huge boulders – I guess the rocks just fell down onto the street, and we were driving this little Buick from the ’70s. (The driver) went to swerve around one of these huge rocks, and we’d just spin around, and this road is not very wide. I literally came to peace with myself, like, “This is it. This is how it goes. This is where I die. At least I’m traveling. It’s OK.”

On her favorite shows:

The best live shows for me are when there’s a real, palpable energy in the air and a relationship that happens between you and the audience, and you put something out there. You put yourself on the line and make it worth something to you, and the audience goes there with you. When that happens, it can be very magical.

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