Orlando Weeks, lead singer of The Maccabees (themselves on high after scoring a big hit with their third album…Hey, number 4 in the UK charts is big, OK?), has just brought out Young Colossus, an illustrated book with a six-song soundtrack. It tells the story, using only songs and illustrations, of the androgynous Young Colossus, who is chased through a rural landscape by some gnarly creature. I found Orlando’s phone number on a toilet wall, so I called him to ask…WHAZZZZUUUP?!
Noisey: Hello, matie. Is Young Colossus meant to be a children’s book?
Orlando: No, the book was meant to help make sense of the music in the way that the music would help make sense of a wordless book. Those books I had when I was younger with tapes, where there’d be a “Beep, turn the page” and you’d follow it through – that made sense to me.
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