"I had a dream that you were mine. I've had that dream a thousand times"
Rostam: "...I get a feeling that it might be one of the best records I make in my whole life. We worked really hard on lyrics and every song tells a story."
"You can look, but don't touch"
Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe: "There aren't love songs on this record. It isn't romantic; it's more of a primal, functional need, a requirement rather than a higher-minded kind of love...
I'm so proud and delighted with it. I think it's the realisation of freedoms and ideas we've actually spent our entire lives trying to achieve."
"Euclidean Plane"
Ben Chatwin: "'Heat & Entropy' is certainly less experimental and more concise. There was a conscious effort to bring melody to the fore."
"Red Parallax"
65daysofstatic's Joe Shrewsbury: "...we wanted the album to be as direct as possible, but also wanted to find a way to represent all this much weirder, freer sound design we were doing alongside it...
'No Man's Sky' felt more like an exercise in the cinematic, with issues of framing, of photography and cinematography. The metaphor, if you like, of barely glimpsed images captured by a pinhole camera— blurred, damaged, imperfect—rendered to a greater and greater degree, and in larger and larger formats. A sort of samizdat of the non-existent generative future."
'No Man's Sky' felt more like an exercise in the cinematic, with issues of framing, of photography and cinematography. The metaphor, if you like, of barely glimpsed images captured by a pinhole camera— blurred, damaged, imperfect—rendered to a greater and greater degree, and in larger and larger formats. A sort of samizdat of the non-existent generative future."
