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Published on: 8/19/2008
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But while most bands harp on (and on) about writing dozens of fresh songs for their albums, guitarist Peter Holmstrom says the Dandys wrote just a handful of "brand-spanking-new" tracks.They then relied on "old songs that had been forgotten or just never been completed" to round out the record, released on their own label, Beat the World Records.
"This record [was supposed to be] our last record for [former label] Capitol, so it was kind of like cleaning house.These ideas that were just floating around, it was time to deal with some of these things," Holmstrom says.
"If we had known that we were going to be starting on a completely new label, I don't know if we would've spent the time to make the songs up-to-date and make them as good as they ended up being."
A trio of songs that got revived and revamped - "And Then I Dreamt of Yes," "Valerie Yum" and "Love Song" - were initially created and recorded with British trip-hop act Massive Attack during 2000 and 2001 and meant to be used in a collaboration record between the two bands.
Since scheduling issues prevented them from finishing that album, Holmstrom says, "we just decided, 'Screw it, if we wait too long, the songs will never come out,' " and so put them on the new disc.
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"We loaded our equipment in the back of an 18-wheeler and all jumped in the cab," Holmstrom says of the song's origins.