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TRACK BY TRACK with CRAIG AND PATRICK

1. Ride
Craig:
“ Ride is very short and it’s the first song on the album. It’s a good way to start things off, I think. The opening guitar part starts off really scratchy to sort of throw you off the scent, lull you in to a false sense of security. There’s a kind of beat- music verse and then the chorus comes in and it starts getting a bit more… well, loud. That’s where we decide it’s time to set off the fireworks that Patrick has been carrying in his bag since high school. It’s about time you did something with those, Patrick.”

Patrick:
“ What can I say?”

2. Animal Machine
Craig:
“ Well, it’s the second song, and it’s also quite short and it’s also dark. The chorus harmonies sound like they’ve got a bit of Suede in there – that’s the band I’m talking about, not the material that you can have your jacket made of if you feel like it. It sounds very staccato to me in the chorus. You know, very short and sharp.”

Patrick:
“ What was it our friend Robin said about this one? ‘Nirvana meetsSuede – clearly a good thing’.”

3.TV Pro
Craig:
“ This song is meant to sound like it’s a dream. That’s theidea behind the production and the sounds with the effects on the guitar in theverse and the way the vocal sounds. Although the music has that spacey, dreamlikesound, the words are more to do with things that exist in the real world, butI wouldn’t want to get too specific about them. It’s better for peopleto 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 mightsound.”

Patrick:
“ Features the coining of the word ‘telectual’ and a greatmulti-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 toAutumn Shade on the first album, but of course in the title, well, you have tothink it’s linked somehow. It’s more about the feel of the song thanthe words, though. It really couldn’t have been called anything else. It’spretty 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 whenhe’s in there. He seems to have a pretty good handle on singing five differentharmonies 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 typesof places, but no-one or nowhere in particular. It really isn’t. But ifyou think about a town that is, well, evil, just apply the song to whatever placethat is for you. I think it’s got this futuristic vibe to it but it’sstill 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 sideif you were thinking about it as an old record – and it’s about whatyou think about at different times, how you feel different. It wasn’t reallya song when I first wrote it, more just a poem really. That was a really longtime ago. It’s also one of our best songs, I think. Although the wordscan sound a bit kind of down, the melody is happier.”

Patrick:
“ When Craig originally played me the song and I had a cassette copy, Iwrote down the title as ‘Wedding Days’. I thought Stone Roses atthe 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 rememberabout 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 Daleor the Beach Boys or even the Easybeats. There’s all kinds of differentsurf music – this is sort of a combination of all that.”

Patrick:
“ An unwieldy title perhaps, but we’re really happy with it. It’sgot 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 gotthat 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 whatthat 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 somewhereeven more cardiac. I think that’s the innocence in it that you’retalking about. It’s unaffected. Very snappy drumming by Hamish, by theway.”

9. Amnesia
Craig:
“ This one’s like poetry. It’s a really slow song and it’sa real head trip. We played this one a lot when were touring last year, and wekept building it up in soundchecks. We kept working on it together. I think thatworking 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 studioit sounded really good. It’s got a cool organic vibe to it in the way weplay 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 acountry 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 meansa lot but it never slides into a country n' western parody, which it could havedone. Then there is the guitar solo, which is heavy on whammy bar and expressiveas fuck.”

11. Fuck the World
Craig:
“ This one is an environmental song but that’s not really obviouswhen you hear it at first. It’s the sound of the past to the present tothe future. Hopefully, everything is about the future.”

Patrick:
“ Heavy.”

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