Repression can seriously damage your health. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.In a 1997 interview with Billboard, singer Jill Cunniff explained that the song is about being emotionally naked, or honest, rather than naked as in without clothing. And you can hear the album in its entirety now on our website:. INSKEEP: 'Magic Hour,' by Luscious Jackson, is out next week. JACKSON: (Singing) Are you ready? Are you ready, ready? Are you ready for the ride? Their crowdfunding brought back a band born in the crowds of New York. INSKEEP: They financed 'Magic Hour' with a pledge drive online. INSKEEP: Luscious Jackson kept that lighthearted feel, despite more than a decade off - a time of having kids and trying other careers before returning to their band.Д¬UNNIFF: We're in Brooklyn, and we're still making it work.

JACKSON: (Singing) Your bum is number one. Their new album, 'Magic Hour,' sounds like conversation with friends, like people killing time on a New York street, or maybe catcalling a passing guy.Д¬UNNIFF: '#1 Bum' is a song that Gabby and I wrote about man booty. INSKEEP: Until they were playing in clubs and heard on the radio and produced on the Beastie Boys' label. There were probably 20 of us, all underage, running around to clubs. INSKEEP: And in that mix, in the early '80s, they made connections that served them for years.Д¬UNNIFF: I remember meeting Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys in front of the U.K. It was all kind of colliding at the same time. GLASER: We were all about, you know, 13, 14, and it was an amazing time, as far as not only bands playing, but also the early rap scene and the breakdancing scene. Mark's Place, and I believe Kate, as well. JILL CUNNIFF: I think I met Gabby on a stoop on St. INSKEEP: The group, known for the hit 'Naked Eye,' includes Gabby Glaser's bandmates Kate Schellenbach and Jill Cunniff. With my naked eye, I saw, if I said it all. JACKSON: (Singing) With my naked eye, I saw all the falling rain coming down on me. INSKEEP: Gabby Glaser's lyrics suggest her connection to New York, that city where people still do walk for miles, or meet people on the sidewalk the way the members of Luscious Jackson once did. And you're just like, how can any human being cross the street that fast? GABBY GLASER: You do step off the curb, and then it changes to red.

traffic light might give you three seconds to cross the street. INSKEEP: California, we're told, is a land unfriendly to pedestrians, where an L.A. JACKSON: (Singing) Where we get three seconds to cross, and it only takes just a little to get yourself lost. INSKEEP: The narrator longs to be in California, though it becomes apparent a New Yorker like her really wouldn't fit in. LUSCIOUS JACKSON: (Singing) Lying awake in New York. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, '3 SECONDS TO CROSS') Their crowdfunding brought back a band born in the crowds of New York.ДЄ new song by Luscious Jackson begins somewhere in New York City. The band financed its new album with a pledge drive online. 'We're in Brooklyn and we're still making it work,' Cunniff says. The band kept that lighthearted feel despite more than a decade off - a time of having kids and trying other careers. Luscious Jackson's new album, Magic Hour, sounds like a conversation between friends. In the years that followed, the group would begin playing in clubs themselves, have their songs heard on the radio and sign to the Beastie Boys' label, Grand Royal. 'There were probably 20 of us, all underage, running around to clubs.' 'I remember meeting Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys in front of the UK Club at a Bad Brains show,' says Cunniff. 'It was all kind of colliding at the same time.'ДЄnd in that mix in the early 1980s, the musicians made connections that served them for years. 'We were all about 13, 14, and it was an amazing time, as far as not only bands playing but also the early rap scene and the breakdancing scene,' Glaser says. Mark's Place, and I believe Kate, as well,' Cunniff says. The group, known for the hit ' Naked Eye,' includes Glaser, drummer Kate Schellenbach and singer-bassist Jill Cunniff. Glaser's lyrics suggest her connection to New York - a city where people still walk for miles, or meet people on the sidewalk the way the members of Luscious Jackson once did. 'And you're just like, 'How can any human being cross the street that fast?'' You do step off the curb and then it changes to red,' says singer-guitarist Gabby Glaser. The narrator lies awake longing to be in California, though it becomes apparent a New Yorker like her really wouldn't fit in: 'It only takes just a little to get yourself lost.'Д¬alifornia, we're told, is a land unfriendly to pedestrians, where an L.A. '3 Seconds to Cross,' a new song by Luscious Jackson, begins somewhere in New York City.

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