What we tended to gravitate towards were these really mellow records, not so much in-your face stuff that we had just heard in the club.
Whatever chapter we're rollin' with, whether it's the New Zealand chapter, Canadian chapter, the Boston chapter, or the London chapter, they'd be like, "Bro, you ever gonna make another one of those mellow records, like Book of Shadows?" It's a good road trip record.
They want it to be a summer record – the mellowest record in the third summer of love – and hope to get it finished in LA when the Mondays go out there to start recording their next album with producer/DJ/remixer Paul Oakenfold.
He also exploited his gruff, but mellow, bass voice by recording numerous voice-overs for advertisements and for Captain Robotnick, the villain of a children's television cartoon series.
Daniel Evans, a finalist on series 5 of The X Factor (UK) recorded a mellow contemporary version and was a standout track on his 2013 iTunes EP "Reflections".
In his book Phil Spector: Out of His Head, Richard Williams identifies "Behind That Locked Door" as an example of "how sympathetic to the performer" Spector could be as a producer, in this case, by giving the recording a "mellow, autumnal mix" that "beautifully display[s]" Drake's pedal steel.
I almost think it was just like, "Listen, I'm going to give this one everything I've got and it's going to be a little more barbed," because the last one was pretty mellow and we had to record it in three days and the previous one, The Place And The Time I'd honestly like to re-record.
THE PLAYLIST You'll always be heard above the music, mellow and melodic, emanating from a record player behind the bar.
He's got tunes when he wants them – Candy Sam, in particular, is terrific – but it's an uncomfortable, dissonant record, a bad trip rather than a mellow high.
