“To me, music helps snare and distill a kind of emotional resonance, helps put it on the page sometimes, and this is some of the stuff that I listened throughout the writing (and significant rewrites) of Coffin Moon.”
“To me, music helps snare and distill a kind of emotional resonance, helps put it on the page sometimes, and this is some of the stuff that I listened throughout the writing (and significant rewrites) of Coffin Moon.”
“…all in all, it’s a reasonably bleak book, and I listened to a lot of melancholy, dark stuff while writing it. None of what I would consider specifically apocalyptic, but there’s a marked solemnity running through almost all of these songs and albums.”
“Politics in mainstream music is hard – few rock bands manage it. The Blank Letters, given their upbringing in the DIY ethos of punk, cut their teeth on it”