Now, There's Just So Much Imagery. Imagine

Any Kind Of Anthemic Song, For The Most Part, They're On The Positive Side Of Things. It's Not Hard To Identify When A Melody Is Just One Degree Too Complicated Or One Degree Too Simple And Where That Line Of Pop Memorability Lies.

Because There's Just So Much In A Day Now, I Keep Writing In Much More Abstract Terms, Like I Don't Try To Write About What Happened Anymore. It Would Be Impossible.

Musically, I Didn't Relate To Berlin. There Seemed To Be A Lot Of Machine Music Made There - I Don't Think I Saw A Stringed Instrument In Two Years.

I'd Hear Some Beautiful Sade Or Kings Of Convenience Ballad Remixed In A Club And I Liked That These Simple Little Songs Seemed To Be Masquerading. They Had Put On Superhero Costumes, Got All Beefy, And Here They Were On The Dancefloor. I Was Interested In That. I Can't Make Electronic Beats, So I Leave It To The Pros Like Boys Noize And Chromeo.

The Group-effort Sound In Recording Of Sea Lion Is Like, You Really Hear All The People In The Room And Hear Them Interlocking. Theres A Real Freight-train Energy Of All These People At The Same Time Playing.