Gomez Say What?
Does it feel like you’ve come full circle with this album?
Olly: Yeah I think that’s a great way to describe it...I think you’ve done well there
Tom: Yeah...it’s back to just being a band playing...we’ve got rid of a little bit of the more experimental side. It’s still stylistically all over the place, but it’s a much rawer record.
Where was the pressure coming from to change?
Ben: There was no pressure...every record we’ve done has just sounded different...
Tom: ...There are big differences in the albums but y’know, it’s always us singing and you can never change that much. The thing is, after the last record which was a ‘sound’ record, it was nice to make a record that’s just about songs again.
I read somewhere that you made the first record drunk! Did you drink heavily whilst you recorded this one?
Ben: No not at all really, I think was the soberest record we’ve made! Cos we’ve got our own studio now down in Brighton, so we tend to drive down there...
Tom: We tend to play quite slowly when we’re pissed, whereas this record’s like the amphetamine record!
Was the idea to make it quite urgent from the start?
Tom: Yeah...to suck you in fast, and the songs are all short, you got three songs under three minutes as soon as you put it on. The ordering of the album is really good I think.
Did you take a long time to think about that?
Olly: Yeah, the first time we did it, it was just too heavy...’y’kow, I was like I can’t handle this, it just pinned you back. So we were like let’s put a softer tune in there just for five minutes, and once we’d done that everything just sort of slotted in.
Tom: Originally we wanted to make a 45 minute album, but it was too heavy, so we put a few of the mid-tempo tunes back in there to give the listener a bit of respite. 13 songs in fifteen minutes...double album on vinyl.
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