Ghosts chat to I Like Music

SIMON: What normally happens is, one person or another will have a set of chords that could be a decent verse… Well, the way it worked in Sweden, and half the album was done in Sweden, was that we'd sit around in a circle and just play a set of chords and stuff, and then I'd sit and try and write melodies over it and, once you've got a great melody over a verse, then you just spend the rest of the day trying to develop it through the whole song.

So what happens is, you'll spend a few hours getting the structure of the song right and the basic melody. The lyrics, I've never just written a set of lyrics and put it to music, lyrics usually come near the end. So we'll say, 'these are the chords and this is the melody and the structure', and then put that on the track and jam with a guitar or a piano and a guide vocal, so the structure is there. Then we just kind of sit for a couple of days and throw the kitchen sink at it, and try all the instruments; xylophone, strings, marimba's whatever, and see what works and build it up like that.
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