Viagra Boys arrived like a hurricane. In a second that saw an increasing volume of "put up-punk" or punk-adjacent bands coming out of Europe, the Swedish community became like an entire different beast: Sardonic and tousled lyrics, all method of skronking and screeching saxophones, massive slithering riffs, all of which turned into an entire storm of noise and pent-up chaos onstage. They were cacophonous, they had been hilarious; they gave the impression simply somewhat "in fact dangerous" compared to most rock bands these days, yet simultaneously you couldn't rather tell if the complete factor changed into one big piss-take.
Then it became out the band weren't only a gleefully hedonistic event, but additionally a group capable of amazing, explosive music and songs that gripped you through the throat. Their 2018 debut road Worms had its fair share of dirt-coated sonic breakdowns, however also had stuff like "sports." That song seemed to sum up everything this band can be: Ironic and dry, however then legitimately infectious and perhaps even cathartic. along the way, Viagra Boys gave little glimpses into an specific human core. "just like You" turned into a brooding, corroded interpretation of synth-pop that mulled over precise anxieties. within the early months of 2020, they released the regular sense EP. It came with a title music that changed into oddly appealing, a haunting and simmering haze wherein frontman Sebastian Murphy asked all of the complicated questions about what he changed into doing along with his lifestyles.
That set the stage for Welfare Jazz, Viagra Boys' sophomore album. As you may are expecting, Welfare Jazz doesn't signify the band's pivot to one more genre (regardless of some of them already having roots in jazz), but it does present a moniker that sums up their personal little world. Welfare Jazz has a handful of these trademark Viagra Boys rockers, nevertheless it goes in every single place from there — to arid, sideways meditations like "Into The sun," fractured new wave in "Creatures," even a disco beat and a John Prine cowl. It's in many ways greater somber than what we've heard from this band earlier than, and in alternative ways it's as wild and frenetic and restless as they've ever been.
Welfare Jazz suggests a band that's simply getting all started with their evolutions. but that took a little bit of exchange in their very own lives, too. Murphy spends loads of the album searching returned on the person he was once when he changed into addicted to speed; he spends the leisure of the album imagining who he'd like to be in its place. It's an extra paradox for Viagra Boys, the band whose identify at all times made you think the total issue might be a comic story: No be counted the self-damaging narratives and the frazzled punk celebration temper, this track additionally deals with some very actual traumas. Welfare Jazz nevertheless has loads of the band's instinctive humor. It also depicts americans coming to phrases with their lives, and the way they may store themselves.
forward of the album's unencumber, we caught up with Murphy, calling over Zoom from Stockholm. He walked us through each and every of the songs on Welfare Jazz, from its apparently goofy interludes to compositions that catalogue the worst moments of his fight with dependancy. Now for you to hear the total album for yourself, read alongside beneath to get the stories in the back of Welfare Jazz.
1. "Ain't satisfactory"This looks like some classic Viagra Boys. Why become this the one the band chose for the lead single and opener?
SEBASTIAN MURPHY: I feel it ended up being the way as a result of, as you spoke of, it's very classic Viagra Boys. I guess it's sort of fan service to have it because the first track, and the leisure of the album is like, "Fuck you." [Laughs] however had this sound to it and it had loads of energy to it, I believe it's all the time pleasant to delivery off an album with a bit of energy.
I bear in mind when the EP got here out closing year and the song "ordinary feel" was this cloudier, extra meditative element, and it was implied this changed into a transition into a brand new period, one that could be a bit of sonically distinct. How intentional changed into that? Like, were you avoiding the swagger-y rock songs?
MURPHY: The component is, who knows, there can be more swagger-y rock. We've recorded a lot on the grounds that Welfare Jazz as smartly. I suppose it's greater like we don't have any plan to persist with whatever thing we've executed prior to now. We don't see any explanation for that. I consider as musicians most of us like checking out out new shit and going forward musically. when I hearken to song, as well, i admire when albums from definite artists sound manner diverse than the ones earlier than. That's always the purpose as a band, play the shit we are looking to play and never fall into the same shit. Some bands can get away with it, but I don't think we're that variety of band.
The music also came with this very memorable video with you wreaking havoc at streetlevel and then getting transported again in time. The story continues with the "Creatures" video. What changed into the thought right here? were they supposed to hyperlink up with the subject matters of the album?
MURPHY: now not so plenty with the theme of the specific tune, but perhaps a bit greater with the feeling of the music. The video got here from this horrible nightmare I had where everyone turned into just so pissed off with me. everyone in my existence: My mother turned into in reality upset with me, my dad became upset, all my pals hated me, my girlfriend become crying. I walked down the road and people were throwing shit at me and calling me names. I wrote it down and that i concept it might be a good idea for a track video. I don't feel when I need to do a video that it necessarily has to have anything to do with the lyrics of the music. however greater the sensation.
The name of the track is "Ain't high-quality," so I wager it became simply this sense like I'm just a shitty adult. once I wrote the music, I simply felt like a shitty adult also. I wrote it when my ex-lady friend kicked me out of her apartment and that i had all this shit there. All these ancient electronics and shit. I filled whole cupboards with halfway-taken-aside record avid gamers and stereos and stuff like that. because that's how I spent both years i was with her, in her kitchen soldering shit and taking apart electronics and taking pace and being an asshole. I didn't feel like a extremely nice person after that, so that's what that's about.
I knew the song came from some heavier experiences, and you'll hear here is in lots of different songs on the album. but when that happens in a single of the extra "enjoyable" Viagra Boys songs, like the catchy rocker–
MURPHY: Yeah, the song is somewhat more gentle-hearted, for bound.
Is it cathartic to address those kinds of experiences in that context, or is it more such as you're embracing some aspect of it in personality?
MURPHY: I suppose it's truly greater cathartic, in a way. but as you noted, it's sort of taking a character. When it comes down to it, I do see myself as a nice person. I wouldn't take any pride in being an asshole, that's for sure. I kind of write shit from how I'm feeling on the time, you recognize?
Do you actually have a set of old calculators?
MURPHY: I even have one. I had to throw lots of this shit out since it became variety of a trigger for me to have it at the residence. I nevertheless can't stroll by way of vintage electronics devoid of like, "Ohhhh." [Laughs] The calculator I even have someplace in a box basically. It's this massive component with a phosphorous screen and it makes all these noises if you plug it in.
What changed into the appeal to vintage electronics?
MURPHY: I used to take pace day by day and i was simply in fact into schematics and building electronics, and taking aside electronics and attempting to work out how shit works. i believed i was some sort of genius. i believed i used to be an engineer. in the main i used to be just killing time, I believe.
2. "bloodless Play"here is a short instrumental and one among several segues on the album. What goal do these serve for you?
MURPHY: It became in fact at the start an intro to "Toad." It become just what Oskar [Carls] turned into playing before we begun moving into the tune and we stored it there and somewhere alongside the road a person decided to make it a separate track, and one of our producers wanted to name it "cold Play." To be sincere, I don't truly recognize why, he just concept it was a very good identify.
i was going to ask if it become some type of internal comic story about Coldplay.
MURPHY: I suppose it's, but I don't basically get it. [Laughs] I feel it's mostly just humorous that we've the phrases "cold Play" on our record, as a result of we're fairly far away from Coldplay.
3. "Toad"you could hear your nation affect a little greater on this record, and with "Toad" it's there lyrically and thematically. I didn't understand until currently that you simply were in reality born in america. So was nation music something you kinda grew up with?
MURPHY: Yeah, from my childhood, but much more now. nation is doubtless seventy five% of what I listen to. I at all times cherished country tune, and that i always desired to make nation track, and that's about as shut as I get to creating nation tune in Viagra Boys. The theme of the lyrics is sort of inspired by the way lots of these country singers wrote songs that had been identical to, they're not an asshole, they're just a rambling man. I think like country singers are so first rate at no longer placing the blame on themselves, simply announcing "this is the way i'm!" [Laughs] Even a music by way of Tammy Wynette, "Stand by means of Your Man," he'll do a bunch of shit and also you just have to stand by way of him anyway. There's this weird irony in it, by hook or by crook. especially from the outlaw country era. I just desired to jot down a song a little bit like that. The total tune in itself is sort of satire. the style I'm asserting I don't need any woman, any man, anybody, however without doubt I do. nevertheless it's additionally anything I've felt at times: "Fuck this, I simply need to hit the road."
"Ain't fine" and "Toad" appear to come from the same location, and it appears there's a specific arc to the album beginning here and changing tone quite quickly.
MURPHY: within the starting it's kind of this whole "Fuck it, I'm fucked up however whatever I'll simply preserve going." "I'm a rambling man and i'm always going to be like this." Blah blah blah. Later in the album I consider it's a bit of extra, "adequate, yeah, perhaps this isn't the most desirable idea." [Laughs]
4. "This historical Dog"here's a different segue, however a spoken one. There's loads of ordinary dog imagery on the album. This tune sows the seeds for "Secret canines Agent" afterward.
MURPHY: I don't be aware of if it's viable to even hear the lyrics within the recording, nevertheless it's form of a bit poem I wrote. It's this thought that I received to a degree the place I felt judged even by using dogs. I think it comes from some type of paranoia, which also bleeds into "Secret dogs Agent," like even dogs recognize what I'm up to. I wager when i used to be deep into my addiction, I had this idea that I knew what i was doing turned into incorrect and it wasn't going to work out, and i necessary to fucking give up, but by some means I saved justifying it. I felt like some form of doctor. "If I just do that a great deal, then I'm still cool, so long as I get this lots sleep and that i still go to work." nevertheless, I all the time felt like somebody knew what i was as much as. A dog sitting there and watching me and i'm looking at this dog like, "This motherfucker is aware of."
Like a pet realizing enhanced than someone.
MURPHY: precisely. The whole routine theme of dogs — i will be able to't basically clarify it, I simply get these fastened concepts. It become really a chum of mine, I showed him the list, and he became like "You talk about canines in practically every tune." I suppose it's a weird theme I actually have, I get stuck on four or five things. Shrimps, dogs, chickens. Rubber balls. nevertheless it comes from a love of canines. I just love dogs.
5. "Into The solar"After these couple short shots in the starting it goes to "Into The sun," which I see as a big pivot on the album. It additionally brings me again to "normal sense." That become so explicitly about self-destruction and addiction, and "Into The sun" seems like an identical reckoning.
MURPHY: It's the equal music as "regular experience" within the method it's like, "What the fuck have I been doing?" There's lots of feel sorry about in there. I wrote it at the present where I had realized what a fucking asshole I'd been to my ex-female friend and that i nonetheless had hope she would know that i noticed that and perhaps take me returned. but on the identical time I knew that wasn't going to turn up. I don't wish to talk about it too lots as a result of I'm gonna piss off my female friend that I even have now. [Laughs]
Viagra Boys had this recognition for these very fun but apocalyptic, chaotic live indicates. That's the concoction of all these diverse gamers in the band, and the distinctive backgrounds they come from. in the event you're making an attempt to grapple with some very heavy subject matters out of your personal life, or regrets, do you should come to the band like, "this is where my head's at, i want some of these forms of songs."
MURPHY: No, it's fully my own world. many of the time, they'll be 60% executed with the track earlier than I even delivery recording lyrics to it. That kinda depends where we're at. We these days did some recording and we were doing that together all at the same time. one of the crucial other guys don't communicate all that outstanding of English so that they don't even understand what it's about unless it's executed. So I feel it's greater like I are trying to study the riff or the generic feeling of the music, and that's where the writing begins. nevertheless it's nothing that the fellows know too a good deal about.
6. "Creatures"I noticed "Into The solar" and "Creatures" as collectively the "just like You" of this album, the a little bit prettier, emotional core.
MURPHY: "Creatures" is also about electronics, and stolen bikes and shit like that. It's about this period of my lifestyles the place i was just at my worst with pace. The simplest individuals I frolicked with have been different velocity creatures, relatively plenty. All you do is focus on stuff you bought or found. "I'll trade a stolen bike for this stereo" or whatever. It's about americans which have chosen a direction to are living like this. You're at a crossroads: "I'm both going to quit and get my shit collectively, or I'm going to die doing this with the rest of these guys and we're all just going to try to live to tell the tale how we are able to so long as we get velocity for the day." It's about that type of subculture and how it felt. I say "I couldn't breathe/ i was underwater," and that's in fact what it felt like. Waking up every day and being like, "What the fuck am I doing?" but at the identical time I aroused from sleep each morning and simply took a fats line of speed. The relaxation of the day turned into all about electronics. It wasn't about getting my shit together. It changed into just this lifestyles, being this velocity goblin.
How long did that length final?
MURPHY: possibly three or 4 years.
changed into that all over the primary half of the band?
MURPHY: This became around the time the band all started, that's after I all started getting in reality into that shit. I've been slowly weaned off of it for the previous couple years and now I'm completely done. I've been clear for a long time.
Congratulations on that.
MURPHY: thank you.
where does the album title are available in with all of this? I in the beginning examine it as more of a social commentary. i do know you guys have mentioned you don't write political songs…
MURPHY: I don't write any political songs. If I sit down right down to write a music, I'm definitely now not going to put in writing about politics, but in our day and age everything is political in a method. If a person else perceives it as political, then I bet it's political. however I constantly just are attempting to inform stories from my own life. however Welfare Jazz, I don't believe the name basically has any politics in the back of it. It got here from a shaggy dog story. I recorded vocals on a free jazz album. loads of the free jazz musicians out here, my pal jokes and calls them "welfare jazz americans" because they can't get money from gigs, they just get money from the Swedish government. That's the best way they're going to get money, as a result of no one desires to pay for a free jazz gig. He changed into like, "What are all these free jazz dudes going to assert about having you on their album?" as a result of in comparison to them, I'm a fucking sellout. He talked about it in Swedish, and that i concept it just translated into such a good album name with Welfare Jazz. It didn't in fact have that plenty notion in the back of it anyway the truth i assumed it sounded cool.
7. "6 Shooter"this is a longer instrumental. Are these the results of jams within the studio?
MURPHY: I think that become definitely supposed to be a music. I wrote some lyrics for it and they felt forced. I didn't like my singing on it. i thought it changed into an awful lot superior to do it as an instrumental. I feel like that track is traditional Viagra Boys are living. in case you see us reside, one of the songs that are five minutes on the list come to be being 29 minutes are living. I believe it encapsulates what goes on at our shows, this churning coach of sound that's sort of a party. other than that I don't have too an awful lot to assert about it due to the fact that I'm not featured on it. [Laughs]
eight. "most advantageous In show II"This slots in with the different spoken segues however's additionally a callback to the primary album.
MURPHY: It's a right away shoutout. i admire having these segue elements. once I hearken to an album, I savour that sort of stuff. i like it when there's a theme to stuff, also. We threw that in towards the end. It's also on the theme of dogs. I don't even bear in mind what I say in that, to be sincere. [Laughs]
9. "Secret canines Agent"On its floor, here's type of a funny thing coming out of "This old Dog" and "gold standard In reveal II." but here is the paranoia you were talking about earlier than.
MURPHY: yes, and it's also a shoutout — or, it's a continuation of "Frogstrap," in a method. "Frogstrap," I wrote it one day once I smoked a joint and laid in my mattress and that i had this graphic in my head that someone changed into smuggling a frog into a gathering and the frog become accumulating advice. There's no true that means in the back of these songs, more than that they're just this world that I build, the equal as i would paint a portray. "Secret canine Agent" is this thought that each one these canines have some complex plan and they're listening in on each person. Yeah, it's a continuation of that first poem I wrote, "This historic Dog." I definitely even mention "Frogstrap" in "Secret canine Agent." There's some line like, the dog can odor someone is donning a frogstrap. It's just building on this world, like illustrating a sketch or something.
Yeah in case you say that, I consider about the title Welfare Jazz no longer that means anything except for these ordinary vignettes you set into that world.
MURPHY: exactly. The humorous aspect isn't any one asked me what street Worms supposed. They were just like, "Oh, yeah, road Worms." That had simply as little that means — smartly, I bet street Worms, you're just a few fucking worm on the street. It's easy to grasp what it potential. however Welfare Jazz… i like the name. "Secret canines Agent" and "Frogstrap" can be two chapters in a comic book book named Welfare Jazz, you comprehend what I suggest?
10. "I think Alive"After that zanier passage, there's some extra emotional stuff towards the conclusion of the album. "I feel Alive" deals with one of the vital threads we've already observed. turned into it literal? You wrote this if you have been in these initial throes of trying to get clean and simply counting the times?
MURPHY: I think we had began recording a little bit of the song, and i became like "What the fuck am I going to jot down?" I started going through the notes on my phone and there became one that simply stated "I consider alive." I simply all started laughing at it, as a result of I had obviously written it at a time when i used to be so removed from feeling alive. I just felt fucking useless. I likely wrote it when i used to be laying in bed like "Huhuhuh, this is dull." nobody would suppose that's a funny lyric except for somebody like me, who would suppose these three phrases are humorous — which is pretty dark. It became just far away, for me, to believe alive. Of direction I felt alive each time I took a line. I consider the music is form of from the point of view of, I've just railed an immense line of speed, "Woo! I suppose alive! My existence is outstanding!" Which I usually felt as soon as I railed a line of pace, however at the same time, "My existence is horrible." [Laughs] It's truly an ironic song, but I believe any person who hears it will hear that irony.
Musically, this one has this form of bizarre, remarkable barroom blues issue happening.
MURPHY: I get this photo in my head like I'm going for walks down the road with a big-ass smile on my face and sun shades and that i simply suppose like a fucking badass even if my life is complete shit. [Laughs] now and again you'll see some homeless guy at streetlevel just vibing, and you're like "Oh, that man's having an outstanding time," when definitely he's having a very good time for 5 minutes and the relaxation of the time he's laying there in pain.
11. "women & Boys"There's reasonably a couple of shapes and sounds on Welfare Jazz. but here's virtually like some Viagra Boys maelstrom disco second.
MURPHY: We recorded a edition of it at electric powered lady in ny, and on the time I had just discovered White Claw. We had been all just vibing in the studio having a pretty good time. I consider that you would be able to hear it on the music. It's this vibe-y tune that we'd always never write, with these disco melodies. The lyrics, I simply desired to write whatever thing stupid. First, I just desired the music to be a gross tune about women, from like an Italian disco point of view. About "how i love lady," you be aware of? Then i thought, "Ah, fuck it, I don't wish to go down that route." [Laughs] So I had to contain boys as neatly.
And dogs and shrimp.
MURPHY: canine, shrimps, yeah. phrases that came to my intellect. I did an interview the place a man as like, "That's my favourite music on the record." i used to be like, "What the fuck man, what's incorrect with you americans."
There have been times where americans have mentioned Viagra Boys, just like the band fidgeting with a definite form of masculinity however undermining it. You be aware of, the aggression of the live demonstrate, old punk signifiers, anything. "women & Boys" at first glance may be that again, however in keeping with what you're announcing might be that's slightly overblown.
MURPHY: really. I'm fucking round for certain. I've been fucking around for five years. lots of people put lots of words in my mouth that I think sound definitely sensible and i'm like, "Yeah, good enough, cool, I'll just journey with that." They consider that the whole thought of Viagra Boys became to crush this whole masculine most efficient. Man, half those songs are about me. but, hi there, whatever floats your boat. I'm down with all that shit. If that's what people get out of it, I feel that's surprising. as a result of these are my ideals, for bound. It's just that I haven't tried to write down songs that are about my ideals. I wager you do this shit on accident. We're no longer a band like Idles that probably literally says of their lyrics [mock British punk accent] "Don't be imply to ladies! It's not cool to spit on immigrants!" It's like, yeah, dude, all of us fucking get it.
[Laughs] I take it you're now not an Idles fan.
MURPHY: I believe they're notable. It's just that I don't suppose they're incredible. [Laughs] I feel they're a pretty good band, don't get me incorrect, it's simply that we always get compared to them. every person always talks about Idles when they do interviews with me. I simply hear it all of the time — this child at my work, he just at all times performs it. Ughhhh.
There was one time I saw them and he did this type of "this is Sparta!" chest-beating pose whereas screaming "I! Am! A Feminist!"
MURPHY: Oh, no. My female friend went to this exhibit. I'm a feminist, my girlfriend's a feminist. however, you recognize, she went to this display and it was a really intimate demonstrate, with probably 30 americans there. And he began off the exhibit with like, "So if any person here is a fucking transphobic, or homophobic, or a sexist, you stronger go away right fucking now!" She turned into like, "Man, you in my view invited all and sundry at this show. Why would any one right here be that? You gotta beginning fucking pondering who your pals are." [Laughs] now and again I feel individuals can are trying just a little too challenging. I consider they simply do it to get laid, to be sincere. [Laughs]
12. "To The country"this is what i was saying in regards to the arc: This very plenty felt like an end destination on the other aspect of "Ain't first-rate" and "Toad." initially, I nevertheless heard it with an undercurrent of irony, like this escapist fable of "We'll birth a brand new life within the country."
MURPHY: You comprehend what, that music is the least ironic.
i was going to assert. Now with what you've told me in any other case, I suppose like this have to be quite genuine.
MURPHY: Yeah. I've had different americans interview me like, "Oh, but you're kidding, right?" No. it's literally what I want in lifestyles, what's in this song. I'd like to stream out to the nation and have a bunch of dogs and be with my female friend and go fly-fishing and say fuck it to this life out right here. Be without partying. It's a really specific song, actually.
There's actually some fairly pretty moments in it, too, like when those saxophones stand up a bit methods into the song. On the first album, there's the song "Worms" because the kind of thematic conclusion after which the epilogue of this noisy instrumental. I heard anything identical right here, like this felt just like the end of the album because the penultimate tune.
MURPHY: That's type of how I hoped it will be. Like, "Yeah I've finished all this fucked up shit, however I are looking to depart it at the back of me and hopefully come to be like this."
here's anything of a contented ending on the album then.
MURPHY: hopefully, yeah. I'm no longer there yet.
You believe you'd definitely do that, circulation out to the country and hold the band going?
MURPHY: Yeah, in reality. lots of the guys are similar in that experience. lots of the guys within the band are family guys. They've bought other halves and basically young children and shit. Some bands make it figure out. i know the fellows within the Hives. all of them reside in distinct components of Sweden and that they all shuttle to observe each two weeks or some thing it's. I traveled around Sweden throughout the summer season and noticed where some of those people reside. It's just beautiful. It's like, "Oh, individuals can do that and reside the rock 'n' roll way of life," which might be a dream come authentic. I don't want to stop playing rock 'n' roll. but I don't wish to emerge as being some washed-up fucking dude in the city that goes and DJs every Friday evening at some fucking rock bar and nonetheless takes blow with the young youngsters and all this shit. That's simply not my jam.
13. "even with Ourselves"Why did you wish to cowl this John Prine track?
MURPHY: I heard it pretty these days, I guess it simply spoke to me. It was near the end of recording a bunch of these things, so I heard it maybe a year ago. The lyrics truly spoke to me and they truly spoke to my way of songwriting and my outlook when it comes to output. This dark humor, in a method. The narrative is like, it can be a shitty relationship but there's still fascinating things in it. It's just definitely healthful. I confirmed it to the leisure of the guys and mentioned, "I suppose we should still have this on the album somewhere." We had kinda spoken earlier than about desirous to have a duet of some variety. We on no account truly had any respectable rationale to do it. Then we found this. Then I called Amy [Taylor of Amyl & The Sniffers] and he or she was tremendous down right away.
Like three weeks after it become recorded, he died, which was relatively loopy. We deliberate on releasing it plenty previous, however I didn't need to free up whatever thing identical to "Oh, yeah, John Prine died, let's liberate a song." I'm certain a lot of people will think that anyway. I believe it's essential to grasp we recorded it earlier than. It's just a good looking music, and i think it's a pretty good option to end the album. It's a little bleak, then there's a little hope, after which there's this wholesome — where you just variety of laugh on the shitty things for your lifestyles.
so that you didn't comprehend this became the nearer should you first introduced it to the band.
MURPHY: We had a bunch of songs. We didn't comprehend what the order of the album changed into going to be. We didn't understand that cowl changed into going to turn out that all of us truly appreciated it. there have been a bunch of songs that didn't make the album, likely six or seven, that are either too weird or… there's one I wrote called "Piggy Farm" that's just too gross. It's about rolling round in the mud doing nasty stuff. [Laughs]
What are the songs which are too bizarre?
MURPHY: simply musically, sonically bizarre. They have been just too experimental, I believe. I suppose it'll all be released on the deluxe version, like we did with highway Worms. There's one music about me being a shrimp that received hung through his balls within the superb West, or some thing like that. That one "Piggy Farm," it's about weird bodily fluids. The rest of the band have been like "Ehhh, I don't recognize man." [Laughs] i used to be pissed when it didn't make the cut. however'll be released. It'll be launched.
no longer to leap the gun in view that Welfare Jazz is barely coming out, but considering that this has been comprehensive a long time and also you've outlined you guys have been recording in any other case, what do you end up twiddling with now? Do you suppose like Welfare Jazz set the band on a specific course after this?
MURPHY: For certain. This album… it was just a little puzzling for us to make as smartly. It became all recorded in such a long stretch of time, in diverse places, and it kinda bought just a little… once we heard it once again as an album we were like, "Oh, yeah, here's in fact fairly cool." however we had all been in weird places at the time of recording it. I suppose it has its place for sure. I'm really thankful for the album now. but it surely had a unusual procedure of getting everything completed. As with doing the rest, everything is a studying event of how you'll do it the next time. The shit we recorded lately, we did it without any producers. We practiced for weeks, wrote the entire songs formerly, and we went and banged out eleven songs in six days. And it's all fucking tremendous. however's obtained a totally distinct sound than Welfare Jazz and road Worms. It's very nearly like a basic rock album or anything. [Laughs]
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