Track by track with Seefeel

Meol

Mark: “We used the Electro-Harmonix Attack Decay pedal on this one a lot. It created these kind of long decays of the guitar. I can remember recording lots and lots of guitar, and then repeating certain phrases I liked, and then just adding some slight pitchshifting on some of them. I would have just used the sequencer in Cubase, after that.

“We didn’t make it as an album opener. When we were writing the tracks, there was no sense of, ‘that’s the killer opener’. Or, ‘that’s the single’, or anything like that. As there’s not much pace on the album, in terms of the tracks, it seemed the best way to create pace was to start with something that, well, had no pace, basically, and that’s this one.”

Extract

Mark: “This one was pretty much done in the [Cocteau Twins’] September Sound studio, as I remember… Sarah has got a much better memory than me.”

Sarah: “It was. You used that little guitar-loop thing. And I think the vocals were quite off-the-cuff there, too. This actually does have some lyrics. It’s just, ‘No way through. No, no way through’.”