How important is it to make a decent music video these days?
Joseph Mount: Very important. I look back to the 1990s, at things like “Ping Pong” by Stereolab or “Black Hole Sun” by Pearl Jam. We made our last video with Michel Gondry. When I was like 16 or 17 years old I would go and stay with my friend in Reading and he had MTV. I’d sit and just watch it for hours and hours. I didn’t necessarily like The Chemical Brothers before seeing his video, but afterwards I did. There’s a point where good ideas can make you like a band, even if you didn’t at first.
“Never in a Month of Sundays” seems quite a quaint British saying these days. Did the song grow out of the phrase?
JM: The song was going to be this slightly cynical song about the music industry in America, but then I just thought that was a tosser’s thing to do, so I changed it to work around this phrase. There are others I want to put into a song, like “bully for you” and “you’ve made a right pig’s ear of that.”
The track is reflective of the album: there are influences from some classic bands, but boiled down to their minimal and sparse essentials. Where does that idea come from?
JM: I just like learning more about what makes your songs sound like your songs. With this record, we worked in an eight-track tape studio. You have to try and distil it down to essentially eight parts. If you still feel like you can get a song or feeling across while it’s quite minimal, then you’re getting somewhere.
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