Patrick:
“ What was it our friend Robin said about this one? ‘Nirvana meets
Suede – clearly a good thing’.”
3.TV Pro
Craig:
“ This song is meant to sound like it’s a dream. That’s the
idea behind the production and the sounds with the effects on the guitar in the
verse and the way the vocal sounds. Although the music has that spacey, dreamlike
sound, the words are more to do with things that exist in the real world, but
I wouldn’t want to get too specific about them. It’s better for people
to listen to them however they want. It’s also one of our newer songs,
so hopefully it could be a pointer towards the future for us and how we might
sound.”
Patrick:
“ Features the coining of the word ‘telectual’ and a great
multi-tracked chorus where Craig sounds like a schoolyard full of angry goats.”
4. Autumn Shade 2
Craig:
“ This is the first acoustic song on the album and it’s very quiet,
very peaceful. It’s calm. It’s not really intentionally linked to
Autumn Shade on the first album, but of course in the title, well, you have to
think it’s linked somehow. It’s more about the feel of the song than
the words, though. It really couldn’t have been called anything else. It’s
pretty abstract.”
Patrick:
“ Short. Soft. The harmonies are amazing. No, I didn’t sing them.
Craig did. I don’t need to be doing that type of thing in the studio when
he’s in there. He seems to have a pretty good handle on singing five different
harmonies over himself, something I think is well demonstrated on this track.”
Craig:
“ Thank you, thank you.”
Patrick:
“ You’re welcome. Next.”
5. Evil Town
Craig:
“ Evil Town is about kind of certain types of people and certain types
of places, but no-one or nowhere in particular. It really isn’t. But if
you think about a town that is, well, evil, just apply the song to whatever place
that is for you. I think it’s got this futuristic vibe to it but it’s
still just using basic drums and guitar.”
Patrick:
“ Very chromatic equals Evil in a musical sense.”
6. Winning Days
Craig:
“ Winning Days is Number 6 – it’s the start of the second side
if you were thinking about it as an old record – and it’s about what
you think about at different times, how you feel different. It wasn’t really
a song when I first wrote it, more just a poem really. That was a really long
time ago. It’s also one of our best songs, I think. Although the words
can sound a bit kind of down, the melody is happier.”
Patrick:
“ When Craig originally played me the song and I had a cassette copy, I
wrote down the title as ‘Wedding Days’. I thought Stone Roses at
the time. The up-beat end section has incredible Beach Boys-style harmonies,
very complex but rhythmically compatible with each other.”
7. She’s Got Something to
Say To Me
Craig:
“ That’s a really short song. I think the main thing to remember
about it is that it has got a sound to it that sounds like surfing feels. Well,
it’s surf music is a better way of putting it. Surf music like Dick Dale
or the Beach Boys or even the Easybeats. There’s all kinds of different
surf music – this is sort of a combination of all that.”
Patrick:
“ An unwieldy title perhaps, but we’re really happy with it. It’s
got a surf guitar solo in a song with an obvious sixties vibe.
8. Rainfall
Craig:
“ That one is more kind of ‘classic’ I think. It’s got
that kind of sound that’s hard to tie to a particular time. I hope it does,
anyway – it does to me. It’s very simple and I don’t know what
that means… it’s an innocent sound in an innocent song, I think.”
Patrick:
“ All Craig's songs are heartfelt but I think this one came out of somewhere
even more cardiac. I think that’s the innocence in it that you’re
talking about. It’s unaffected. Very snappy drumming by Hamish, by the
way.”
9. Amnesia
Craig:
“ This one’s like poetry. It’s a really slow song and it’s
a real head trip. We played this one a lot when were touring last year, and we
kept building it up in soundchecks. We kept working on it together. I think that
working on this song was really when we all started to play together really well.
We did one demo of this before the album and by the time we went into the studio
it sounded really good. It’s got a cool organic vibe to it in the way we
play it, but then the vocal harmonies are a bit more space age.”
Patrick:
“ Moog in chorus makes me ask ‘Spaceman, can you stay a while?’ Great
words, great drum pattern, one of my favourites.”
10. Sunchild
Craig:
“ This one’s very slow. It’s a ballad really. It’s a
country song and a rock song.
It’s about being positive and I think the music helps it come across
that way. It’s got good harmonies in the chorus. The outro kept getting
longer and longer but it all really worked well. The outro really came together
in the end… at the end. The outro is the end. Do you follow me?”
Patrick:
“ My absoloute favourite. The singing on this is very expressive. It means
a lot but it never slides into a country n' western parody, which it could have
done. Then there is the guitar solo, which is heavy on whammy bar and expressive
as fuck.”
11. Fuck the World
Craig:
“ This one is an environmental song but that’s not really obvious
when you hear it at first. It’s the sound of the past to the present to
the future. Hopefully, everything is about the future.”
Patrick:
“ Heavy.”
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