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Alex Scally: That’s a good question. It’s hard to give you an exact answer. When we get together to make music, we only have an interest in making music in an explicitly emotional way. It’s hard to say what that is. But when we’re reaching toward a song, and it doesn’t have a certain quality, we ditch it. We want this very emotional feeling that is kind of intangible. I think this album felt very dark at times for us and that’s where all the “blue” stuff came from. But there’s also this very beautiful thing about it. Like "Lazuli" is a stone, and a word that Victoria fell in love with, the name of a very dark blue gemstone that comes from Afghanistan. But that song is about hope, about a feeling that goes away, but comes back. So there’s a melancholia that is also very hopeful. We got really into William Bell. This song "Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday," it’s a very happy song, but there’s also a sadness to it.Do you ever listen to James Carr?
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