The minute I put loud heavy guitars into an arrangement, I feel like it is a heavy colour. “I find guitar to be a dominant ingredient in any soup. The guitar work is nuanced and complementary to all of the other elements that we have put in there. There’s a lot of layers and a lot of different guitars. “I wound up putting a lot of guitar on this album. (Image credit: Nic Bothma / Epa/REX/Shutterstock) "I wound up putting a lot of guitar on this album."ĭoes a record like One More Light offer you a very different challenge to The Hunting Party? The Hunting Party had guitars right upfront is it more a case of finding pockets of space for guitar on this album? Is it a heavy rock song, is it minimalist, is it country, is it electronic-driven, or is it all of the above? I think my favourite results were when you couldn’t quite tell what style it was it was just a hybrid of all of the styles that we loved.” Prev of 3 Next Prev of 3 Next We had a finished song that we loved and then we had to figure out what style it is. “We normally have a lot of music cooked up and then work on vocals later. We wrote about 70 songs and they were all very naked and stripped, barebones.
We almost completed a full song every single day. "We worked with vocals, lyrics and melodies first. It almost always started from conversations about things going on in our lives that were very personal. We would go into the studio and really ask each other what was on our minds and what was in our hearts, what did we have to say and what did we want to express. “On One More Light, we wrote all of the songs before they had any notion of style or context. It was definitely intended to be aggressive and really instrument-driven in terms of guitar and drums. “The Hunting Party was driven by a ferocity and a desire to make a stylistic statement. Judging by Heavy, this is a very different sounding record to The Hunting Party… Is it a heavy rock song, is it minimalist, is it country, is it electronic-driven, or is it all of the above?
Anyone interesting that we wanted to meet, we wanted to give an open invitation to coming through, and in that regard it was a very fun record to make.” “Another idea we had was to be totally open in terms of our style of working and everything from guest artists to co-producers to co-composers. On this album we wanted to write songs that had something to say. In that case, the sounds lead us through the journey. “We’ve made a lot of music throughout our career where the music takes the steering wheel. That might sound ridiculous, because everything we write are songs, but I really mean songs. We had this idea we wanted to write songs. We created it in a way that was totally upside-down.
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