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Feeling This:
Mark: This Was the first song that we wrote for the record. The
flange on travis's drums on the intro of the song was done the oldschool way,
using two tape machines. When it came to writing the lyrics, Tom and i went into
two different rooms, and he wrote the verses, and i wrote the choruses, without
discussing the subject ahead of time. It turns out we both wrote about sex. Two
different sides, the passionate, lustful side (verses) and the romantic side (choruses).
Tom: The chorus with me screaming was done in a 30 foot long living room with
microphones that were 10 to 15 feet away from me.
Obvious:
Travis: That was a really dark son on the album, we were thinking Failure metts Led Zepplin meets The Police. I love the verses in this song.
I Miss You:
Travis: This song i played with brushes and is the only loop on the record. The part in the first verse about Jack and Sally i directed towards me and Shanna.
Tom: Im a really big Cure fan, and one day i was listening to there song Love Cats, and i loved the idea of using a stand up bass guitar and jazz brushes. So what we ended up doing was writing a song with all acoustics.
Violence:
Tom: I thought of one thing in my head, a scenario of a bar, late at night when a pretty female walks into the building during a fast paced hardcore dance song. I thought of every guy in that room looking at her and listing after her, Each one not paying attention to any detail present except her.
Mark: This song is a pairing of seemingly incompatible musical styles. I love the bridge. It takes the listener to such a different place, very smooth very beautiful.
Stockholm Syndrome:
Mark: This is my favourite song on the record. Travis recorded the drums in a small room of the house, using an old 1950s microphone. The chrous drums were recorded in the main tracking room. The he recorded the fills seperatly, with the tape machines sped up and super compressed, so when played back they sound really deep and gigantic. The reverb on the vocals was created by playing them into a shower.
Mark: The beginning of this song has letters that my grandfather wrote to my grandmother during the Worl War Two. Joanne Whalley came into the studio and read them. The song itseld is about paranoia. Being afriad of the outside world, convinced that people can hear your thoughts.
Down:
Tom: The lyrics i wrote in Down are about a picture i had in my head of a boy and girl inside of a car while its raining outside. So i pictured over and over rain falling on the windshield while this guy is saying and thinking these things about wanting to kiss her and make her stay.
The Fallen Interlude:
Mark: Jacken rules. The sounds and ideas that he created are amazing. The vocal at the end is so honest. It really expresses a man in pain.
Travis: Remins me of driving in a car, jaded. Jack is the shit. He came in and we gave him a beat to work with at the end of Down, and i told him to elaborate on it. He wrote cool melodies, guitar and bass. I came in and switched the beat to get into the track, and did some cool percussion. Its a cool chill song to listen to and just think.
Go:
Tom: This song deserves to be played loud.
Asthenia:
Tom: This song is about one thing only, an astronaut sitting in a space capsule about the size of a car, floating above the earth. He's contemplating if even coming back or not will make a difference on such a negative place. A song about loss of hope. A term was coined for the breakdown of life in space and it is called Asthenia, the name of the track. At the begining of the song are actual NASA transmissions.
Mark: One of the coolest sounds in this entire record is toms guitar in the intro when the drums come in. We plugged his guitar into a leslie cabinet, and the tube in it was dying, glowing purple. It made a gorgeus, scratchy sound that really compliments the lost in space theme song.
Always:
Mark: This is a total 80's song. At the outro, there are 4 bass guitars being played. A Fender bass VI, a Fender Percussionbass doing two things, and a Roland Synth Bass, that sounds like a kerboard. One of the things i love best about this song is Travis's percussion, using the cabassa as an accent before the snare hit.
Travis: Always i was thinking missing persons, so we recorded everything super dry and 80s feeling. The cymbals are on top of each other with cool keyboards in the outro. There's a really fast tamborine in the choruses. I think anyone can love this song. It was a simple song.
Easy Target:
Tom: A friend of ours told a story of when he was young, and got asked to go to the prettiest girl in high schools house. He rode his bike as fast as he could to get there, and she and her friend jumped out of the balcony and sprayed him with a hose. He rode home wet sad and humilated.
All Of This:
We are real huge fans of the cure. Having robert smith collaborate on a track is a total dream come true for us. We recorded this song in a rather unconventional manner. travis recorded the kick and snare together, then went back and overdubbed the ribbon crasher. Tom went in and recorded the acoustic guitars and the electrics. I went in and recorded the bass, using a new discovery for this album, which is a 1963 Fender Bass VI. It is exactly like a guitar in that it has six strings, but is tuned an octave lower. It wasnt amplified we plugged it directly into the board. Then roger came in and added keyboards. Tom sanf the lead fire two lines for the chorus, and then we sent the track to Robert over in england. he recorded his vocals there and sent the track back to us. We added drum fills and harmonies and added mellotron. The song was recorded in 4 different studios and 2 different continents and is one of the best on the record.
Heres Your Letter:
Mark: This song is about people inability to communicate with one another and how words and explanations only confuse the issues.
Im Lost Without You:
Travis: The kerboards in the begingin remind me of Pink Floyd or Failure. I think the choruses are generally big and lyrically its something everyone can relate to. We recorded two drum sets for the outro one whole track and then i played to the click. Then i played until i couldnt stop playing. It was something we always wanted to do but never got around to.
Tom: The original idea for this song was to have the chorus be the verse and have there be no chorus, just gigantic heavy guitars. We worked on this song for about 6 months and it just kept getting better and better, and stranger and stranger. This song is one that could only be fully realized when listened to with headphones. To hear the 50 or so tracks that were recorded on this song you need a dim room and a somber mood. As the song ends, Two drum sets play off of each other and take you to a different place, as does each of the verses that were recorded seperately from each other. One of which was a 1960s effect by singing through a rotating speaker. It sounds like im underwater but its fucking cool. The feedback in the middle of the song was a one take art form of making the guitar sound really tweaked and ugly. I say art form because to make the guitar sound that way you have to constantly twist and turn it like an acrobat on drugs.
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