September 27, 2007Get the back story on 'Fantastic Playroom'
We the people of the New Young Pony Club want to share with you what it took to make each song on our new album "Fantastic Playroom." Here's what happened:
 1. Get Lucky This is one of our favourite tracks. We listened to it obsessively while we wrote it and then after we finished it. Andy had a large portion of the track written before he gave it to me. It wasn't arranged so once I wrote the lyrics and we recorded them we arranged it together and added more bits which took about two months. I was working a day job at the time and so we were only working weekends on our music. I love the lyrics to this track. They are about having a good period in your life and reaching out to someone who isnt and bringing them up with you. 2. Hiding on the Staircase This is an interesting one as Andy gave me a simple back track with the basic keyboards and drums over nine months before i had the inspiration to write to it. I actually got the muse at a friend's gig who I hadn't seen for years and was alternately running into the venue to watch them play and then running out again to jot down more lyrics in the relative piece and quiet of the local high st. A lot of people think this song is about sex (like all of our songs) but its actually about the experience of watching your parents having the same arguement day in day out and you understanding that they're in a rut better than they do. 3. Ice Cream A song I wrote in a dead end job, with virtually no money. Couldn't go out much. No discernable boyfriend. I am talking about an idealised self living in an idealised world of parties and sexy boys and girls saying exactly what needs to be said with no bullshit. When Andy worked on the track originally it had a bit more of a ragga/rnb flava but he reworked it with more of a Franz/Rapture slant in mind and it became the stormer we know today. 4. The Bomb This song has had so many different faces. Its a proper "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" moment. We had so many ideas we put them all in. Its pop but sort of detached as well with a gentle lullling breakdown that slams into this lush keyboard drenched crescendo and rousing outro. I had just read a book about men in science and the Einstein chapter had be revealatory as the author suggested that perhaps Alberts wife Mileva had been far more to his work then just a supportive partner. The lyrics posit the age old battle of the sexes within the context of Einstein's work and ultimately his need to disassociate himself from it. 5. Jerk Me A song about sex and repression. I was thinking about that moment in so many films/tv shows of the 70s/ early 80s where the dowdy secretary takes off her glasses and shakes out her hair to reveal " yes she's the hottest woman on earth...how could we never have noticed????" Jerk me up could be read as a plea for release from the sexual repression that we all put ourselves through. All this over a track that probably nods its head far more to early Madonna then we realised at the time. 6. The Get Go This song was originally a crazy uptempo punk Disco track, I took the verses and recorded the driving bassline and drums around it. Tahita came and recorded the Hook and then I finished it off. Simple! It's one of my favourite tracks on the album and should be a massive hit by my reckoning? 7. Talking Talking Another of my favourites, this is the darkest and most introspective songs on the album which is really important for any album to balance out the more up moments. Again the vocal track was written to some other music but I reworked it with a new Prophet 5 keyboard we'd just bought with our advance! 8. Grey One of the later tracks to be written it went through many versions before finally settling on this. I'll never forget the moment when Tahita came up with the hook. It was the only one she did in front of me and I knew it was genuis as soon as she sang it. 9. FAN A departure in style for us. Completely intentionally to give the album some variation. Started off really raw like an ESG track or something but Tahita wrote the chorus hook and it ended up being more R n B. It sounded great but needed something else so we I wrote a middle 8 bass line. Tahita did all the crazy harmonies all in about 30mins! 10. Tight Fit One of the oldest songs that almost didn't make it. We had another song for the album that just never sounded right and even in the mix stage we were changing it. We'd even stopped playing Tight Fit live then someone suggested we rework it so we asked Tom Elmhirst who mixed the album to spruce it up and this was the result. A great closer! To learn more about us and how to snag our album visit our Web site.
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September 11, 2007FREE MP3 FROM NYPC
Click HERE and visit the Community page to download the "Ice Cream (Metal on Metal Remix)" track now!
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August 10, 2007Debut album Fantastic Playroom out August 28! Pre-order at Insound.com
NYPC's album Fantastic Playroom is getting rave reviews everywhere!
8.2 - Pitchfork "A beat that hits the bloodstream like a sugar rush." - Pitchfork "The tarted up little sister the Slits never had, and the naughty girlfriend the Tom Tom Club always wanted." - XLR8R “A fantastic collision of synths, cowbells, handclaps and filthy lyrics – what more do you need?” - NME “Glorious…an amazing band” - The Sunday Times Culture “A seductive slab of New Order-meets-ESG disco punk" - Time Out Nominated for the Mercury Prize (UK) for Album of the Year! You can pre-order the NYPC's debut album at Insound.com!! Here is the direct link to buy: http://search.insound.com/search/showrelease.jsp?p=INS37181
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