Plays Hard To Get

"This record was written and recorded at the same time so there is a lot of figuring-out present in the recordings. I think it was a reaction against the idea that you should only record what you can feasibly play live. I was listening to a lot of Beach Boys and Talk Talk and realised that if you just try to make something cool, it could remain interesting long after your band breaks up and you stop playing live. Some of the weirdness includes: For one bar in Pinballs the entire mix goes through two Ampeg 8x10 bass amps and then cuts back... Blue Sky Sinking was an attempt at making a bunch of clarinets and saxophones sound like a granular synthesizer.