That's what passes for humor on this otherwise entrancingly dark record.
Then we go into a small, dark recording booth and say it into a microphone a few times.
"If we were trying to make a big, successful major label record, we certainly turned in the wrong record," says Gibbard. "We recorded this very introspective, quiet, dark record, with hardly any 'rock' moments on it.
Though its synthetic sounds are mostly approachable, rarely jarring a listener into surprise or confusion, it is a dark record, and much of it would be difficult to dance to.
"And basically, keeping in mind the dark record of the United States in suppressing the democratic movements around the globe, he is not in a position to talk about such issues".
Watch here This is from a really dark record we made in 2008 [The Narrow Stairs] and I'm proud of it, but I feel I've written all I can from that emotional palette.
It was a complex and dark record: Carrie had left her family when Stevens was a year old, and most of his contact with her thereafter came when he and his siblings would make summer visits to her in Oregon, where she lived with her second husband Lowell.
But in the dark recording studios and sound stages where Wally tucked me away, I could observe and hear the voices of a different black America.
"For a minute I thought I was going to do a dark record, but then I let the light in and that is what the prism does," Perry said in a recent interview about the album.
If I were to make a top five of the whole genre of weird underground psych folk, I'd put the Dark record in there along with records by artists like Fraction, Maitreya Kali, Forever Amber, and Damon.
