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I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF BIG SONGS ON IT AND SONGS WITH BIG CHORUSES THAT WE’VE DONE IN THE PAST.
magic that happens when Tunde and I get together that you almost couldn’t create- it’s almost like ‘ooh where did that come from?’. So you couldn’t actually sit down and make a Lighthouse Family record by numbers. We just go into the studio and do what it is that we do. If people love Lighthouse Family then I don’t think they’re going to be disappointed by this record.
Talking about your previous albums and the singles you’ve just mentioned: ‘High’, ‘Lifted’, and ‘Ocean Drive’, are songs that have stood the test of time? What do you think is the enjoyment appeal in some of these songs? T: I think there are songs in the past way before we even started making music that does the same thing. So that’s what we try to do, the heart of what we do starts with us trying to write songs that we feel good about that takes you to somewhere else, and puts that Blue Sky in Your Head so to speak. That’s all you can do, you write a song that does that for you and hopefully it will do that for other people as well when they listen to it. The nucleus of that is that as long as a song is real, people can relate to it, and there’s an element of truth to it. If you do that then you think ‘I’ve said everything I’ve wanted to say’, that makes me feel good, then hopefully other people will do that. That’s the thing; you don’t particularly write with that in mind, nobody can ever do that it wouldn’t work.
Tell me a little bit about the new album, reactions have been pretty good and its classic Lighthouse Family. Would you say there’s something for everyone as well? P: When we started doing this we thought about what we wanted a Lighthouse Family record to be. It was kind of a thing where if you were going to make a Lighthouse Family record now what would you do? So we looked back at what we’ve done in the past: ‘High’, ‘Lifted’ and ‘Ocean Drive’, that was the bar, and the standard that we had to try and match; it was a bit of a tall order.
Do you think this album stands up against previous albums? P: I think it’s unmistakably a Lighthouse Family record. I think there are a lot of big songs on it and songs with big choruses that we’ve done in the past. I talk a lot about the title of the record because Blue Sky in Your Head came from the idea of what we want a Lighthouse Family song to do. Ocean Drive does that; it puts a blue sky in your head. So that was a component in the thinking of what we were doing. We’ve done a couple of solo things on and off for the last 10-15 years, but there’s a particular
You’ve said that the album is inspired by your experiences of life, but do you take inspiration from any artists? Perhaps artists that weren’t around when you made the previous albums? P: When I’m writing I have to be very careful with what I listen to because I remember David Lynch - and I don’t want to sound like what I do is major art- but David Lynch saying you let all the stuff in and then when it’s time to write you have to close all the windows. What I found was there are about five things that I could listen to and there were other bits and pieces that came in from Nils Frahm, Spaces, Felt, Screws, Vangelis, Blade Runner soundtrack, Maribou State, Portrait, some early tropical house music, stuff like that. It was stuff that you could actually listen to and it wouldn’t interrupt and could help you.
Was it more motivation than inspiration? P: When Future’s record was out, we were making this record. You’re not listening to Future’s ‘Mask Off’ because you’re looking for a track for the Lighthouse Family, but you listen to it because there’s something about ‘Mask Off’ that’s like the Fugees’ ‘Ready or Not’ or Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’, this growing visual tune. It’s just a mood thing. I’ve got people saying ‘put this on’ or ‘listen to this’ and I’m like ‘don’t, turn it off, I can’t listen, I don’t want to hear it’. I have to be in control of what I’m listening to, which does sound a bit punk and pretentious [laughing]
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