Notable Quotable

Manchester's Nine Black Alps talk to Drowned In Sound about working on new material.

"I didn't realize I'd have to tour Everything Is for two years! And the idea of writing songs that are about five notes higher than you can actually sing isn't the smartest thing you can do. The idea for this one was to make it less painful for myself physically. I think I've actually worked it out, now. I'd never sung properly before the last album, so this time I knew what I wanted to do rather than just shrieking like a loon."

The band also contributed an acoustic track, "Pocket Full of Stars", to an animated film about a penguin called Surf's Up for which Forrest "spent a week on my bed trying to think of something wistful that a penguin would sing to himself."

The band's sophomore album, Love/Hate, will be released this Fall.

Comments

[Stella]

amazing...something wistful that a penguin would sing to himself. So what was it?

[New Jack city]

seems like some bands find a range and it makes the music either more natural or alot more lazy.

[chris martin]

"And the idea of writing songs that are about five notes higher than you can actually sing isn't the smartest thing you can do."

Why the bloody hell didn't someone tell me this before X&Y?!?!

[Will]

It's so funny to hear some of today's musicians TRYING to talk music theory. What the hell does "5 notes up" mean anyway?

[Adam]

Penguins= the true rock n roll muses.