The Secret Machines Interview (english)

(ML) The Secret Machines talk about their new album Ten Silver Drops that's not going to be out until the end of march.

Track #1: Alone, jealous and stoned

Josh	The name of the record is Ten Silver Drops. It’s our second record. It begins with Alone, jealous and stoned. Brandon, can you tell us a bit about that?
Brandon	I think it’s a story of collective alienation, preadolescent paranoia and it’s a love song.
Ben	You could get in trouble for that in some places: mixing love song and preadolescent paranoia.
Brandon	We’re dangerous. (laughs)

Track #2: All at once (it's not important)

Ben	Song two is All at once (it’s not important) which is I think the first real departure we make from the last record Now here is nowhere. It’s a different feel in a different kind of song, which deals with relationships again. Josh any thoughts?
Josh	Yeah it’s one of the songs where we really experimented with the recording of it, because we weren’t quite sure how it needed to be said and we really left it open to interpretation. Even to the very last moment. It turned out really well.

Track #3: Lightning blue eyes

Brandon	Third song is Lightning blue eyes. It’s kind of an up tempo rock and roll number. It definitely has as much of a poppy feel, then anything we have done. But in the same time we managed to make it stretch out to five minutes and delay the chorus to come in for two minutes just to make it a little more difficult.
Ben	I don’t know how we do that, we do that every time. But it’s as close as we can get to a real life pop song.
Brandon	It’s like if you manage to spend three and a half minutes but really stretch it over five minutes, that’s just kinda how we do it.
Josh	When we actually first got it done, we felt that it was about three minutes long, we were really excited, then we actually timed it. I think our version of three minutes is distorted in our brains a bit. But it’s equal to normal societies five minutes.
Ben	That’s the conversion at the moment. It changes.

Track #4: Daddy's in the doldrums

Ben	Song four is Daddy’s in the doldrums.
Brandon	It’s sort of a blues number. It’s like we were a blues band from the fifties,…
Ben	…abducted by the creatures from the blue lagoon…
Brandon	…forced to sing the blues for our supper every night. This is basically what would come out of it.
Josh	It’s one of the fun ones to do live, cause you can just really get lost in the hypnotic rhythm. That’s always fun to do as a player.
Ben	It’s as if you’d finally slip John Fogerty some DMT. That’s the kind of song I think he would play

Track #5: I hate pretending

Brandon	Next is I hate pretending. It’s a story of a particularly debagerous night in Los Angeles: involving an Asian girl drug dealer with a gun and the cops.
Ben	All fictional of course. It didn’t really happen.
Brandon	The names have been changed and then deleted.

Track #6: Faded lines

Ben	Song six is Faded lines. That song is about as simple, as you need to get. We really tried to boil that one down to something very simple. We didn’t even bother to write words for some parts of it.
Brandon	It’s sort of an abstract expressionist version of the minimalist post modern rock and roll love story.
Ben	There you go, can’t top that one.

Track #7: I want to know

Josh	I want to know, that’s track seven which features Garth Hudson, special guest. He’s an accordion player, we invited him down, after a few run-throughs with a few instruments, he settled down with that particular instrument and was able to contribute to the vibe and kinda take us back to school.
Brandon	He showed us, what it meant, to be a real rock and roll musician.
Ben	On the accordion, which is a rare thing these days.

Track #8: 1000 seconds

Ben	Last, but not least number eight is called 1000 seconds, which is a song that’s been around a little while. Brandon any sweet adjectives you could throw?
Brandon	I think if Night Ranger had performed with a xylophone under water, they would have done Sister Christian like this.
Josh	And once again, this is our conversion rate, from a thousand seconds into... how many seconds did it end up being?
Ben	It’s more about 500 seconds, it’s about half of it.
Josh	Right, there’s the conversion rate that we have. I don’t know how we figured that out.
Brandon	That’s actually counted to the other conversion rate, cause we did not count the 700 seconds at the end of the song, where we sit sobbing.
Ben	So still you’re talking about 1200 seconds.
Brandon	Then there is the 300 seconds you have to take away from the conversion rate.
Ben	And there’s a hundred spare lying around. So basically there you got a thousand seconds.

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