Pictures of People Taking Pictures

Album: To The Sea (2010)
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  • Johnson told Billboard magazine that whilst recording this track using a mellotron he hit a bum note. "As I was playing I looked into the control room and everyone was cracking up because it sounded so funny," he said. "It's just the broken B note. But we kind of got used to it and decided to keep it on there. That's always a hard decision because if you isolate it and listen to it, it sounds pretty awful, but in the mix it sounds good. It has a dying seagull sound."

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