“Heavens Last Embrace”

another song that the very talented emer helped me out with, she told me she played the mandolin and I taught that this instrument would suit the song. we jammed it anyways and it wasn’t seem to be working so I said “a banjo would be perfect” and out of nowhere she pulled one and we played the song and it was exactly what I wanted! for the strange riff, emer had to tune her banjo to an open chord. when we recorded it I accidentally had the vocal effect I used in the bridge of the song, but I don’t think it spoilt the banjo part. This also was the first song I used my new typewriter for. I will explain my crazy typewriter thing another time!!

me and simon (isinglas keyboardist) were chatting one day and he said that he wished that our songs sounded more like the killers. Someone had given me “hot fuss” in LA and I had a quick listen but it didn’t really grab me to be honest. Of all these new bands that are been played at the moment on the MTVs, with the exception of Interpol, I don’t really care for most of them. But when I heard mr. brightside in a club on Hollywood Boulevard and I saw how everyone reacted, I knew that this is why they are so popular. catchy pop tunes. So I had its “catchy pop vibe” in the back of my head when I wrote this song, whether it came out in the song I don’t know!!