![]() So she’s not on the album but the weird thing was they approached me to just write songs, which I’m happy to do. If you think of Queen and stuff like that, I wanted that male vocal with a group of lads behind it, that kind of feel. But with this album I wanted an English feel to the album. I wanted it to be one male voice and then have a group male voice around it, because last time I really wanted it to be one male one female kind of thing so that’s why Emmy The Great sings, kind of like Gram Parsons, Emmy Lou, Stephen Mackie thing. I’ve heard that you’re working with Diana Vickers, is she on your album?ĭH: She’s not on my album no, that’s another rule. So it’s good in that sense but it led to months of laborious work, but everyone did their best and it sounds cool, I think. Was the album recorded quickly intentionally or was it due to time constraints?ĭH: Well we kind of just had to, but it’s good because I have a really short attention span. He actually had just done Animal Collective’s record just before this one and so yeah it’s a good sound, I feel good about it. The guy that produced it was a guy called Ben Allen, he recorded like the Gnarls Barkley record and like Mace and Lil’ Kim and stuff. I played a lot of piano and organ stuff on the album and I’d end up doing guitars and I even did like some drums on the album and it kept transforming. So what ended up happening was a lot different. It’s difficult because I intentionally try to write difficult parts that I physically couldn’t play, which is why I wanted other people to play. I really wanted to not play on the album but ended up having to. But due to time and constantly having to just get stuff down it became different. The guys in Spacecamp, they played all the way through the album. I wanted the same group of people to play all the way through the album so different personalities came across so it was more like a band in the sense of older records, well older solo records where someone writes it all and they sing but then they’ve got this really good band behind them, I wanted something like that. I have various kind of rules for the album, so the rule this time was I wanted to write everything but not necessarily play. Bodes well for the debut full-length, due next year.So who has collaborated with you on the new Lightspeed album?ĭev Hynes: It’s weird. This all promises something more substantial than “Circle Square Triangle”‘s one-note growl - optimistic and melodious indie pop, marrying twee’s childhood sensibility with a more mature emotional range. Occasionally, Hynes’ over-enunciated accent has the twang of pop-punk, but he neatly avoids that fake emotional terrain with deft characterization: “No Surprise (Acoustic Version)” tells the story of a playboy, who’s believably lonely despite all the phone numbers and beds. “The Flesh Failures” turns into a deft interpolation of “Aquarius/The Sunshine Song”, a relaxed and more pleading version of the refrain than the original. Throughout, the chord progressions and melodies are exceedingly familiar, but delivered with a refreshing pop maximalism that’s currently buoying other British acts like Mika. The title track and first single adequately showcases Hynes’ flitting attention, traipsing with a carefree optimism through various styles of 60s pop nostalgia. Cute British songstress Emmy the Great provides backing vocals, e.g., and the instrumentation’s pure orchestral pop - acoustic guitars, saccharine strings, all that. But if the pedigree of musicianship on the effort comes off a bit forthright, earnest and if at times overblown that’s part of Hynes’ new musical mood. Never clear as to whether that was primarily a joke, so it’s also not completely transparent in this case. ![]() Galaxy of the Lost, the debut EP from ex-Test Icicle Dev Hynes, is a far leap from the musician’s previous effort.
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