“I read Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker a couple of years ago, after a Black Country, New Road bandmate recommended it. It's reallyhuman and quite gross -1 put it all into the music. There's this dream sequence of a monster and a beaver in a forest it's very childlike and fucked up - and I fragmented the words for the song The City. I hope Acker's estate doesn't come after me, but I thought, well, if appropriation was her thing, how about I contribute?”
