Joe Goddard

But in a lot of the tracks like, for instance, Melody of Love, that was definitely a kind of desire to kind of make it this kind of ecstatic moment and make it this really kind of driving.

It's almost like this.

It's kind of it's kind of quite speedy.

It's almost like a high energy kind of disco track.

And yeah, we tried to kind of put everything into like creating a moment that was really joyful in that way.

And that's partly why we use this kind of it has like a gospel, a sample from like an old gospel record halfway through.

it's like a kind of preacher talking about, um, no, uh, getting the most out of life.

And so, yeah, for, for sure on like certain moments on the album that we were definitely kind of focused on that kind of emotion.

Oh, it was really, really cool.

It's like, um, I remember years and years ago at like a record shop in London, I bought a 12 inch that had a reedit of an old, like kind of disco track called time by a group called the mighty clouds of joy.

It's a really, really awesome kind of up-tempo disco record, super soulful.

And then I was always, like, looking for other stuff by this group, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, afterwards, and I found, like, a live album by them.

And at the start of one of the songs on this live album, it just has a kind of three minutes of kind of, like, preaching by one of the singers in the group.

and it's got this really kind of great crowd noise behind it and the band is kind of like warming up and there's obviously such a great feel in the room and I wanted to use it in a track for years and then finally it kind of just really fit with this music when we started to make it.

Yeah I mean there are definitely lots of other things like that yeah I kind of just keep a you know a file on my on my computer of like bits and pieces that you know as you will know as like a passionate music fan you sometimes just come across bits of bits of older records that just feel like they could totally be recontextualized and kind of brought into another another thing and it's in a cool way so yeah I keep a I keep a store of kind of quite a lot of stuff it's kind of

It's pretty random as well, like all different types of things.

We call it Joe's Vault of Heat.

I mean, it just has... I don't know exactly what he's talking about.

I mean, it's fairly kind of unusual, but it has a real joy just in the chord choices and in the way that Prince delivers the vocal.

It feels very kind of full of fun and full of life.