Every track on the album is bursting with it’s own tenacious and unique personality. From the bolshy T-Rex-esque dazzler “Cry On My Guitar” to “Silverscreen” with a snarl of The Damned in it’s vocal delivery and a slice of The Cramps sewn in for good measure, it’s Miles most eclectic work to date. “The first song that was written on the album was ‘Silverscreen’, which is a real punk, angry song and that was written in New York. Straight after we finished the Puppets tour, I went to New York for a month to write and we wrote that song and ‘Coup De Grace.’”
“I’ve learnt a lot in the past few years and I feel like I’m chill and very open.” “During that period in New York, and after that when I wrote that ‘Silverscreen’ song, that’s definitely when I was listening to The Damned a lot, that ‘New Rose’ song and ‘Neat Neat Neat,’ and The Cramps. There were other songs that didn’t make it that were more in that Cramps-y world where you’re singing with bit more character, so I definitely had a phase of really heavily listening to that, which I always
have done but I guess definitely more so than I normally was at that point. I listened to a lot of soul as well and on a song called ‘Wrong Side Of Life,’ which has got my favorite vocal I’ve ever done, which ended up being the demo actually because I couldn’t recreate the vocal, the key is too high for me but because it’s so bare bones and honest and declaring your love for someone where it’s almost like you’re crying but you’re singing, and that stems from James Brown.” And this is perhaps some of Miles’ most raw and honest work so far. On the Lana Del Rey collaboration “Loaded” he purrs, “my baby’s always threatening to leave,” and on “Cry On My Guitar” he sings, “I’m so highly strung,” but is this a fair representation of the musician? “Sometimes, maybe emotionally, in the past I’ve been highly strung, but I mean it’s probably an exaggeration of things. I’m not like walking round like the Tasmanian Devil,” he laughs. “I think I’ve learnt a lot in the past few years and I feel I’m chill and I’m very open, so I try not to get highly strung because I wear my heart on my sleeve. If you’re my friend or my girlfriend I can’t hide my emotions, whatever I feel I like to talk about, I think that’s important.”