![]() Higgs named "Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide as a major influence on the album's sound, describing it as "genuinely scary music": "It's a song: I shouldn't be feeling like this." The band tried to replicate this unsettling, unpredictable sound on the album, but "wanted a happy ending". Drummer Michael Spearman compared this style to the humour in The Simpsons: "It's twenty minutes of 'bang, bang, bang' – where it started up was way different to where it ends up. For certain tracks, Robertshaw said the band's aim was "to sound like changing radio stations", toying with various musical ideas in one song in the same style as Kendrick Lamar. In March, the band described their sound as "Baroque Obama" on Facebook, explaining to Gigwise that "it's where Bach meets Jay Z". The band aimed for a "euphoric" sound to provide a "contradiction between the way the lyrics are and our sound". Guitarist Alex Robertshaw told Drowned in Sound's Robert Leedham that the album is "bolder" than the group's previous work, and is "the most Everything Everything record we've ever done". He was affected by frequent mood swings as a result of his medication bass guitarist Jeremy Pritchard said that these "affected us pretty adversely". ![]() Alex Robertshaw told Digital Spy that his positivity made an impression on them: "Just another seriously creative person in the room with you is fantastic."ĭuring recording sessions, lead vocalist Jonathan Higgs battled with depression following the end of the band's 150-date tour, calling it "an out-of-the-sauna-and-into-a-cold-bath experience", adding that "riding that low as well as trying to make a record was quite hard". Price joined them in person for the last nine days of recording. ![]() Higgs told Andy Morris of Gigwise that Price had an "ability to become one of us very quickly". At one point during production of "Hapsburg Lippp" – a track which did not make the final track listing – Price returned them a reggae-inspired mix as a joke. The band had mixed reactions to his suggestions. As Price is based in Los Angeles, the band emailed him samples of their work for him to critique and receive his suggested mixes in return. Though the band's previous albums were produced by David Kosten, they enlisted the support of producer Stuart Price after he impressed them with his work on a demo version of the eventual single, "Regret". Higgs later discussed how the band used their previous sound to inform the direction of Get to Heaven, seeking to avoid "quiet songs" and "tenderness" in an effort to "inject a new fire into ourselves". Pritchard told Skiddle that the band were keen to create a record that would "stand up for the huge amount of time you spend touring a record", which in turn inspired a more pop-oriented sound than had appeared on Arc. The group worked on ideas for songs as they came to them, rather than their previous method of practising and recording as a live group. ![]() Higgs told Anthem Magazine that "we kind of ripped up that rule book after realizing, 'Right. This became apparent to them following the writing of eventual album closer "Warm Healer". The band went into the studio aiming to "make people want to move", and set about avoiding slower-paced songs that had featured strongly on their previous album. ![]()
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