Spector: “‘All The Sad Young Men’ is one of the best songs we’ve done”

Spector’s Fred Macpherson has never been one to mince his words. Yet, nevertheless, when it comes to his latest grandiose statement, it’s difficult not to think he’s being genuine.

“‘All The Sad Young Men’ is one of the best songs we’ve done and that kinda just happened,” he told DIY recently, when speaking of their new single. “It felt natural so we just tried to follow our gut instinct, rather than thinking about what it should sound like, or how it would be perceived.”

As it turns out, their newest offering appears to have come from a stroke of genius. But, like all good things, it all started with procrastination…

“We wrote it in our rehearsal room on Hackney Road,” he explains, mentioning his writing partner Jed Cullen, “and we had arranged to have a writing session but we were both late and then sat around chatting for ages and my friend came down unannounced.

“So, of a four-hour session, we’d been there for about three hours and done nothing. Jed was then like, ‘We’ve got to try and do something before we go’. He was on the guitar, I was on the piano and he started playing and I just started playing all the black notes. We recorded it on our phones and within about half an hour, we had the loose instrumental.”