“We used to think that for a band to progress, you couldn’t use the same producer again,” singer Conor Deasy reflects. “In hindsight that was a bad case of tunnel vision. I believe we can make a really exciting record together.”
Songs mooted for the follow up to Let’s Bottle Bohemia include ‘Should Have Known Better’, ‘There’s Someone New In Your Life’, ‘Teenager’, ‘Second Guessing’ and ‘Music Won’t Change The World’.
“I felt the last record was a bit cryptic, so on this one I wanted to write really direct teenage love songs – the kind of themes of Phil Spector and early Beatles songs.”
Work has been temporarily delayed by an injury to bassist Padraic McMahon.
“Padraic had a bad fall during our New Year’s Eve celebrations and broke two fingers,” Deasy resumes. “Fortunately, he’ll be out of the cast in two weeks.”
The run-up to Christmas sounds just as lively with The Thrills back in California.
“There are a few things Kev (Horan, keyboards) has wanted to do for a while – he really wanted to go to Big Sur again, and see Hearst Castle. Padraic wanted to see Joshua Tree because he’s the biggest Gram Parsons fan in the band. So it was like, ‘Fuck it, let’s make it happen.’”