British - Musician | July 14, 1986 -
I'm massively obsessed with Frank Ocean, so it's always great when he decides to release music.
Dan Smith
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'The Shining' is operatic and sensational and... really shocking. It has this amazing meld of classical music and modern interpretations of classical music, and incredible imagery. From the set design to the costumes, there's so much to unpack.
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In 'Good Grief', in trying to create this sense of the huge downs and ups, stumbles of this process, we're almost using the music to make it uplifting, so it's not completely hopeless.
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There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.
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I never, ever imagined leaving Great Britain.
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I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all about, really.
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After everyone's gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It's a nice reminder that this has always been a kind of hobby that I get on with because I really love it.
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I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.
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Mark Crew, the only producer we've ever worked with, has been joining us on tour as often as possible.
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It's fun to take songs from a completely different context and reframe them. We did two mixtape albums called 'Other People's Heartache' and 'Other People's Heartache Pt. 2,' which were full of those kind of covers and mash-ups, mixed with film music and film quotes.
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There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.
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I really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We're just four guys in a band trying to articulate things in a questioning way. Who are we to tell people what to think?
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