What’s the most distinctive element of the new songs?
The beats. The beats are dead sharp and dead minimal. We tried to make it like a wall of sound, but like dead minimal. So the track builds up excitement and each track, two or three times is a sort of move of itself. So when you finish hearing it, you’re like hang out there was nout there except six piano notes, a dead simple beat and a couple of chords and that was it. Dead clean and dead pure sounding, loads of space. We tried to make it like a wall of sound, so all the instruments melted into each other, you can’t necessarily pick out each individual instrument, they all kind of melt into each other. At sometimes it’s not just full of space, it’s minimal. I wanted to make it sound super-modern, contemporary sounding as I could get it. It’s always hard to be original, but that’s what I strive to do.” How much do you go back or scrap stuff? All the time. If it’s not working we scrap it. If we think, oh that’s great, and we can’t find another part we just sack it. Always keep moving, d
