Spector talk reassessment: “We weren’t a consistent band before”

In the August 2015 issue of DIY (out Friday 7th August), Spector talk about how they had to reassess their place in the world before making new album ‘Moth Boys’.

“We weren’t a consistent band before,” admits always-recognisable frontman Fred Macpherson. “We weren’t very good at understanding our own preferences or who we were really. We were just a set of disparate ideas and a desire to be whatever. I think now, having taken some time, we make more sense.” “We didn’t know what Spector was before,” Fred confirms.

“We’d have a meeting about it and as a band we were like, ‘Does this mean we’ve got to write songs about cars? Do we need to pump your fists in the air?’ At the time we made ‘Enjoy It While It Lasts’, I was pretty much only listening to The Killers’ ‘Sam’s Town’ and The Walkmen’s ‘You & Me’. It was the lyrics and sentiment of The Walkmen meets the fist-pumping Bruce Springsteen-with-a-bit-of-synth of ‘Sam’s Town’, with some Gaslight Anthem on top of that! That’s not what Spector is; it’s the heart and soul behind that, it’s not the sound or the production.

Spector’s new album ’Moth Boys’ will be released on 21st August via Fiction Records.

Read the full interview in the August 2015 issue of DIY, out 7th August. Pre-order a copy below.