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The Charlatans on 'Up At The Lake'
Tim Burgess and Jon Brookes on The Charlatans' eighth studio album, the smooth and sublime 'Up At The Lake'. Hear the album in full and their track-by-track commentary right here.
Celebratory, organic and joyous, 'Up At The Lake' is The Charlatans at their best. Check it out.
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'Up At The Lake'
"It was always going to be the title track because for us it just creates some sort of image. I think it's creepy, some people think it's beautiful."
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'Feel The Pressure'
"It's about feeling the pressure! Just about the pressure of the band, I was doing a solo record at the time as well. Pressure about 'Have you still got it?' You know?"
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'Watch You In Disbelief'
"It's one of those feelings when you see people actually doing something, and you just can't contain your horror..."
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'Cry Yourself To Sleep'
"When I first heard this it kind of reminded me of 'Never Had No-One Ever' by The Smiths. It really got to me and kind of insisted we had to do it."
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'Bonafide Treasure'
"I think the way it sounds is like a familiar '70s song that only exists in my head..."
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'High Up Your Tree'
"We went back to using loops and getting drum beats together playing off of that. It's got a wicked bit in the middle where it goes all falsetto..."
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'Blue For You'
"The tune is kind of a cross between 'Isis' by Bob Dylan and a Curtis Mayfield tune - he did a really fast, punk kind of waltz..."
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'I'll Sing A Hymn'
"This was written around the time that Johnny Cash passed on anyway. That would naturally come through to anyone who was writing a song around that time."
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'Loving You Is Easy'
"It shows a bit of depth to the band 'cos Tony's got a great voice, Tim's got a great voice and it's great to hear them together."
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'Try Again Today'
"I think it's really uplifting. You can imagine people putting it on the jukebox in the pub, raising a few glasses. Raising some fists in the air..."
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'Apples & Oranges'
"Once we started working on the harmonies we tried to do it on every track. We always have a tendancy to do that, we have an idea and milk it."
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'Dead Love'
"We normally compile it ourselves and we're normally pretty good but this time we got stuck so we asked Johnny Marr to do it..."
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