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- [The song] is basically about the real word; ordinary life, and how drab and featureless it seems until you write it down, and then you see it's pretty wild. They say that good books make shit movies and shit books make good movies. So if you're depressed and you feel like your life resembles a shit book, congratulations. (en)
- My dad grew up in Rio, he was born in Rio. My best friend who was in the Drones [Rui Pereira], he grew up in Rio. My grandma comes from Buenos Aires. They're all English, but English migrants to Brazil. There's a lot of Rio in me in a way. And we went there last year and hung out for a bit. It's a city that's part of my family story. It has an effect on me. [...] It's all just subconscious stuff. I really haven't had time to reflect on that, or any of the songs really that much. [...] So “Rubber Bullies” probably has a lot of shit that's personal, but I haven't gotten around to figuring out. (en)
- The explosions in "Two Afternoons," "A Laughing Death," and "Rubber Bullies" are glorious and frightening, so big they don't feel quite real, but there's a story trying to climb out of the noise, carried by Liddiard's weariness, his uncynical fatalism, but shaped by the counter-vocals of Kitschin and Dunn. Liddiard is responding instinctively to the war they are all describing; they are thinking about it. Soon you may begin to hear him as the background singer, and the women in the background as the leads. The balance shifts inside the songs, back and forth, back and forth, and you can feel as if this is what history sounds like as it's being written. (en)
- America is the cop of the world. Or the boss of the world since War World II [sic]. A lot of people go “Fuck America, fuck them, they're in charge.” Thing is, you're not perfect but, ok would you prefer to have China in charge? Or Saudi Arabia? Or Russia? [...] It's the least of a bunch of fucked options, having the US in charge. Mainly what the end part of that song is about, “Bye-bye scarecrow” it's taken from The Wizard of Oz but the scarecrow is the USA. Scarecrows are useful, they're not perfect, but they're fucking better than a lot of other options. [...] With Trump, turning inwards, turning the country inwards and abandoning the rest of us to China and Russia. That's the scariest thing, that frightens me more than Trump starting a nuclear war with North Korea or whatever. It's more just being abandoned to fucking Russia. Russia would have us if they could. Only reason they didn't turn the west into a bunch of communists is because we nuked Japan. We didn't nuke Japan because we wanted to necessarily finish their war, we were showing Russia what we could do. It's awful. The world is an awful place. That's what kept the USA in charge for fuckin’ 75 years. And now Trump’s going to throw that all away. It's scary, scary times. (en)
- Teenage Engineering OP-1 keys and drum machines. Anything made by Eventide. Granular Effects stompboxes. Lots of weird obscure iPhone drum machine apps. Contact mics. Tea towels gaffed onto all the drums. Magic mushrooms. (en)
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