How did Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon serve as a contemporary template for Fluorescent Black?
We had an idea of what we wanted to do stylistically in terms of things we wanted to get across. Dark Side was simply a template. The album became its own entity after working on it for over a year and touring. And getting reacquainted and re-acclimated with one another in a working environment. There’s a foreboding sense of uncertainty and injustice. There’s no clear indication of that. We made an LP that struck a balance between things we had done which people familiar with us can understand and reintroduce ourselves to new people who didn’t know us due to our absence. ‘Volcano’ and ‘Born Electric’ are probably the most approachable and accessible tracks on the new LP. Both seem like the most democratic collaborations. The rest seem to have one person’s directive commandeering the whole. ‘Volcano’s’ aim was to draw in more people. M.Sayyid produced that. But for ‘Born Electric,’ we were at a rehearsal space and that was a group improvisation. Sayyid just one day started the chorus an
