Which one was it that Axl didn’t get into a club because he was wearing a fur coat so he went back to hotel and barricaded himself in?

I think that was a rumor that covered that Ezrin had shot down the album Axl said was ready to mix. So he knew they needed more studio time.

It’s that’s special song you need to hang an album on. The SCOM, DC, TIL - those songs aren’t exactly my favorites (in fact DC disgust me) but they have something really undeniable about them in a broader sense. Atlas has that thing where it could mean a lot of different things to different people. Universal is what I’m trying to say I think. It’s not crazy like Silkworms or some massive deep epic, it’s catchy but also is emoting something you feel like you understand. I made that triple espresso extra strong.

I could see that Madagascar and Prostitute are more Massive Attack. Unfinished Sympathy inspires. Axl also used open sets with the theme from Luck which was Massive attack.

Splitting the Atom from Heligoland, kind of like Leonard Cohen meets trip hop dancehall.

Yeah high level stuff somewhere between Catcher and IRS.

Can sort of see why they went with Catcher as there’s lyrically a different theme there.

Brings back the idea of a trilogy with one May solo on each album. CD was such a defiant statement it might be that. Atlas and Perhaps are more self reflective. State is also quite introspective.