What are you most proud of with the album? How do you think is it a progression of the first?<\/strong><\/p>\nWell, I\u2019m proud of the fact that it sounds like a much more coherent piece of work, because I really took the trouble to make sure that that was the case, especially with production and stuff. Much more I don\u2019t want to say more involved than the first, I was just much more careful to make sure all the songs sounded either like they fitted phonically or the theme of each song was in time with the whole theme of the record. Whereas the family Jewel I didn\u2019t really care, I was just putting anything on it, just as long as I liked it.<\/p>\n
Name five of your keenest music influences.<\/strong><\/p>\n(1) Shangri Las (2) Fiona Apple (3) Emily Haine (4) Madonna (5) Royksopp.<\/p>\n
I basically wanted the whole album to sound like the middle eight of “Teenage Dirtbag”, you know that really starry magical bit, that really is one of my references for a lot of the album It goes into like a stoner like dream sequence on the dance floor. <\/p>\n
It also gets really camp – doesn\u2019t he put like a girl’s voice on?<\/strong><\/p>\nI kind of based the song called Teen Idol around that middle eight.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s quite strange!<\/strong><\/p>\nI love it so much! I love it so much!<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your favourite song on the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n“Starring Role”.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/strong><\/p>\nBecause, it\u2019s a very love – inspired album, to the point of making it into a joke. So this is one of the few, maybe one out about three songs that were about a specific person, and its what inspired the album, and I think it\u2019s a core song, its the most important lyrically and also it incorporated the theatrical element by using a metaphor, of the starring role in relation to that. So that\u2019s why it’s my favourite song.<\/p>\n
Is it based on a real person then?<\/strong><\/p>\nYeah.<\/p>\n
Is it boyfriend that you’ve had or have now? <\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a boyfriend that I’ve never had.<\/p>\n
That you\u2019ve never had? Oh wow, that\u2019s quite poetic.<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s really sad! I don\u2019t want to say it because it makes me sound like a loser. I had a relationship with someone but I wouldn\u2019t say that he was my boyfriend or anything.<\/p>\n
Good luck with the release.<\/strong><\/p>\n