I like the depth of the drums, the ride feels distant, in a satisfying way.

many thanks for such a gift ! Kisses from Paris

The song ‘Be The One’ also started with a vocoder loop. And it was the same broken down Korg vocoder. One of my favourite ways of making songs is to start with a decontextualised loop and then just keep adding stuff to it. So with this one there is the vocoder loop and I added a crummy, old, organ pad to it and a drum machine and then two live drum tracks, two bass tracks, tons of synthesizers to make this weird Phil Spector minus the wig and the prison sentence, this wall of sound. 

The idea was this, once everything kicks in my hope is that no one really knows what they’re listening to. Like you can’t tell if it is a bass, or a guitar, or a synthesizer, it’s just this gestalt, crazy wall of sound. And the very last thing I added to it, my friend Joe, who I was working with, said, “Oh wouldn’t it sound cool with a bunch of feedback?”. So I took a hollow body electric guitar and plugged it in three old punk rock distortion pedals I have and turned each one as loud as it could go and put an old ribbon mic in front of the amp and recorded the nosiest destructive feedback I could get. So it’s there through the whole track mixed really, really quietly. So it’s kind of inspired by spending too much time in little bars listening to Glenn Branca, Thurston Moore. The noisy sort of sonic youth Glenn Branca inspired wall of feedback underneath the track. 

I don’t really like happy lyrics that much. So the lyrics were never written down. It’s just me sort of singing into a vocoder. So it’s completely spontaneous, just about what I generally write about, which is relationships falling apart. Maybe at some point I will write songs about relationships working out but unless you are John Fogerty it seems like no one’s really good at that. 


Be The One

The song ‘Lie Down In Darkness’ is named after a William Styron book, and the song, at least for me is a very emotional, sort of mournful, piece of symphonic, electronic music, my friend Joy Malcolm sings on it. 

Right before he died I got to hear William Styron speak at a Paris review dinner, he read from Lie Down In Darkness, I was watching him read and it was beautiful and emotional. I remember looking around to see if anyone else was having the same reaction I was having, and I looked around and it was all this jaded, cynical New Yorkers who were checking their blackberries or their iphones, and not paying attention. It made me so disappointed. I was thinking, here is William Styron, who is this remarkable writer and he is sort of bearing his soul and you could tell he didn’t have much longer to live and most of the people were not paying attention. But I feel really fortunate that I got to see him and meet him right before he died.


Lie Down In Darkness

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'No Harm' is a new track from Editors. Originally hidden on a sampler from the bands label Play It Again Sam and found by fan Erik Drost.

No Harm

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'Life Is A Fear' is available on iTunes now: http://po.st/indreamdigital

IN DREAM

Life Is A Fear

Taken from the album 'Covers' originally released 22nd September 2003 as a Bonus Disc with the release of the 'Sleeping With Ghosts' album. 

The album is available individually on iTunes now:  http://www.itunes.com/placebo

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

Tricky has released a new version of "When We Die" featuring New York-based singer/guitarist Breanna Barbara, who will join him on his upcoming October tour of the U.S. and Canada. Barbara reworked the song with her signature reverb-drenched sound, performing it with a live band, sampling in Tricky’s vocals, and adding her take on Topley-Bird’s part. “Breanna really is a unique talent and brings her own vibe to this song,” Tricky said.

“We recorded it out on Rockaway Beach, Queens with Ben Trimble (co-producer/ keys), Charles Garmendia (drums) and Jay Heislemen (guitar),” said Barbara, who is based in Queens. “We wanted to capture the floating, limbo-like space where ‘When We Die’ left us. Rockaway Beach was perfect setting to ask that ageless question, ‘Where do we go when we die?’”

Info and tickets to all upcoming shows at:
http://www.trickysite.com/live-dates/

OCTOBER 2017 - NORTH AMERICA
10/6: Montreal QC - Theatre Fairmount
10/7: Toronto ON - Mod Club
10/9: Brooklyn NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/11: Washington DC - U Street Music Hall
10/12: Raleigh NC - Lincoln Theatre
10/14: Nashville, TN - Exit/In
10/15: Atlanta GA - Afropunk Festival
10/17: New Orleans LA - The Parish at HOB
10/18: Houston TX - White Oak Music Hall
10/20: Austin TX - Mohawk
10/21: Dallas TX - Curtain Club

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When We Die (Re-Worked by Breanna Barbara)

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