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PRIMAL SCREAMThe ninth studio album from Glasgow's finest promises link-ups with CSS and a "happy vibe - with lots of big choruses!"Bobby Gillespie: We're at the stage at the moment where we've demo'd all the songs and we're still writing new ones too. They're very different from the last record, which was bluesy. It's happy sounding, it's shaping up to be a very "up" record at the minute - not angular or depressing or anything like that. It's still very guitar-based, maybe a bit more pop, but still very Primal Scream. I think we're always quite pop anyway... stuff like "Burning Wheel", to me that's pop. There's a lot of big choruses on this record. The principle songwriters are me and Andrew Innes - always has been, really. We're the ones in the studio five days a week, working. We sit down and write songs together, we structure the material and put it together... it's not a democratic band in that way. I don't think there's many that are that way even if they say thay are. You know, some people are songwriters, and some people aren't. But what we've got is a great band. So it's just different ways of approaching writing songs. These are pretty much structured verses, choruses, whatever, and we're just building them up from there. Whereas in the past we might have started with a little rhythm box and a bass line or a piano line - on Vanishing Point, a lot of the songs, like say "Kowalski", were just one verse all the way through. So I guess it's less abstract. In terms of guests, we've got Barrie [Cadogan, live guitarist and Little Barrie frontman] playing slide guitar on one song. And then we've got Lovefoxxx from CSS singing on one other song. She came in the studio a couple of months ago and sang with me - it's kind of electronic, psychedelia with a really strange rhythm, but with a really strong melody, maybe a bit John Lennon-y. Our voices sound great together. There's three verses that I've written, and we got her to write a verse of her own. It's a song about a destructive relationship. That one's not an up, happy song! So we're at the stage now where all the songs are pretty much demoed and we just need to find the right producer to record them. We might try different songs with different producers. I just wanna make sure it doesn't thesame as the last thing we did, so we're not repeating ourselves. We start recording in Janury. The record company are hoping it'll be out next April or May. It's god now we're on B-Unique rather than Sony, 'cos they can turn around records much quicker. It used to take Sony six or seven months, because you're fitting into a schedule, waiting for Mariah Carey or someone like that. As much as certain people at Sony might have loved us, we don't sell records like those superstar acts, so we were never gonna be a priority. B-Unique have got like three or four acts. And the guys there are all great, they're serious about doing it right, just really enthusiastic. We're ready to go! Originally appeared in Uncut, Feb 2008. Copyright © Uncut. Back |
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