More spooning here than your average cutlery drawer.
To make ‘Yout h Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospec t’, the band fle w off to Europe’s cit y of the mome nt , Berlin, and fu elled their se ssions with star sight ings and heav y metal evenin gs.
THOM YORKE
Oscar: “We saw Thom Yorke once, that was really cool. I was quite starstruck. He peered into my soul. He was locking up his bike and looked over at us and we were all gawping at him. He looked into my eyes and then carried on with his life.”
BERGHAIN (OR LACK OF) , but
hain “We wanted to go to Berg because we didn’t get the chance . It’s we were too busy working ause we probably for the best bec e got in probably wouldn’t hav have got or, if we did, we might pissed on.”
HEAVY METAL BARS
“It was kind of Groundhog Dayesque. We would go from the apartment to this deli for break fast and then to the studio. On our way back to where we were staying we’d go to this heavy metal rock bar. That was it for 10 days.”
LARRY HIBBIT T
“He was in a band called Hundred Reasons. We tried the first EP with him and ‘Loveblood’ just to see how it would go. He gave us some balls [sonically], which we really needed. We love pop music and a decent melody, but I think we needed to execute it in a way which had dirt to it and a rumble.”
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