Josh: This song, I’d say is us as a band… if there was ever a You Me At Six song that was heavily influenced by Jimmy Eat World, it would probably be this one. We’re all massive massive fans of Jimmy Eat World and I think that’s pretty evident during this song. It’s definitely one of the songs that came together quite easily and painlessly because we knew where it was gonna go as a song. I remember when we were doing pre-production, we completely re-wrote the middle-eight.
Dan: We added an extra part.
Josh: So, if anyone ever says that pre-production is a waste of time, it’s not! We wrote a middle-eight.
Dan: We used to just get drunk at pre-production and play covers with Deaf Havan all night. Just us and Deaf Havana playing covers with John Mitchell. The drummer of Jethro Tull used to come in. We were at his house doing pre-production and we used to just do covers of Bon Jovi and stuff with him. It was really fun.

Max: I actually wrote this riff when we were in Reading recording ‘Hold Me Down’. I thought it would turn out to be a really good song that we could put on ‘Hold Me Down’, but I remember Josh saying, “No, let’s just wait until the next CD.” It turns out to be the heaviest song we’ve ever written in our career, I would say.
Josh: Probably because of…
Max: Yeah, probably because a certain someone called Winston McCall from Parkway Drive actually does vocals on this song. I just think it’s nice to do something a bit different since, as I said, it’s the heaviest song
Josh: The cool thing I think about ‘Time Is Money’ is that we all enjoy listening to music that is slightly heavier anyway, so as soon as Max played us this riff, we knew it wasn’t gonna be a light-hearted poppy, rocky song. We knew we could only take it in one direction and just thought, why not take it to the heaviest it can go. Lyrically and vocally, we didn’t actually have a chorus for the song until we got to LA. We re-wrote the chorus as Dan was tracking his drums, so it all kind of came together. I think that’s why it sounds quite natural, and kind of pissed off which is how it’s meant to sound.

The band told This Is Fake DIY:

Josh: The next song is ‘Reckless’. Okay, funny little thing about this song is that originally, it was called ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’, but, Nicole Scherzinger – she’s pretty fit – but she’s got a song called ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’. Then, we were like, “Okay, we’ll call it ‘The Best You’ve Never Had’,” but a band called The Swellers called one of their new songs ‘The Best I Never Had’, so…
Max: And Beyonce.
Josh: And then there’s Beyonce! Beyonce was the selling point for us to just change the name of the song to just ‘Reckless’.
Matt: Politics, politics.
Josh: I think Dan hated this song when we first recorded it. Has you opinion changed now? Do you like it, and if so, why?
Dan: Not really, no.
Josh: So Dan doesn’t like this song. It’s probably his least favourite on the album. Hopefully though, in time, he’ll grow to love it.
Max: It’s probably the song that most resembles the stuff on ‘Hold Me Down’. You can relate it back to our previous work like ‘Take Off Your Colours’ and ‘Hold Me Down’. It’s definitely more pop punk-y, a bit more jump up and down kind of vibe, but I think it has a place on the album as well to show the direction that we’ve come. You can’t just go from one sounds and into a totally different direction.

Max: The next song is called ‘Crash’, and I’d say this was probably the slowest song on the CD by far. It shows a different side of our band. We got to mess around with some strings on this song, which we’ve never really had the opportunity to do before
Josh: Yeah, to add to what Max was saying about the strings, we got this guy to arrange strings for the song and it was the guy who did Alice Cooper, right?
Max: And he was taught by the guy who did the strings for Pink Floyd on ‘The Wall’.
Josh: But yeah, ‘Crash’ is probably going to be the ‘Fireworks’ of this record I think. The song that people will be able to relate to most when it comes down to relationships and that kind of stuff. It’s quite a soppy, ballad-y kind of song, but it seems to be quite popular amongst everyone who has heard it so far. It’s quite long as well, so don’t get too bored.
Max: Not the longest though.
Josh: Not the longest, no. We saved the longest ‘til last.

Josh: The next song is called ‘Little Death’. Funny story about this song, we wanted to call the album ‘Little Death’ but our label and our management wouldn’t let us because it actually means ‘orgasm’ in French, and they weren’t into that. Then, our producer Garth Richardson actually said that when we said that title, it made him think of his daughter, who’s only fourteen, being abducted and killed and we didn’t really think that was good, if that’s what parents thought about it.
Max: It was one of the first songs we wrote.
Dan: We’ve said that about all of them so far.
Max: But it wasn’t actually going to go on the CD.
Dan: We’d forgotten about it.
Max: So, at the last minute, we were like, “Wait, what’s going on with this song?” So, that’s another little story about the song.
Matt: So many stories!
Max: We love stories. This album is a story, pretty much.

Dan: This song will forever remind us of casinos. And it was one of the first songs that we demoed for the album back when we were writing ‘Loverboy’, so we’ve had this one for a while as well.

Created:

Hajime Isayama

Directed by:

Tetsurō Araki

Written:

Yasuko Kobayashi

Music:

Hiroyuki Sawano

Studio:

Wit Studio:

Production I.G (production cooperation)

Licensed:

AUS
Madman Entertainment
NA
Funimation
UK
Manga UK

Network:

MBS
Tokyo MX
FBS
TOS
HTB
TVA
BS11

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Talking Dreams is the debut album by Echosmith, released on October 30, 2013. It is best known for its hit single “Cool Kids” which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 2014, even though it was originally released on May 30, 2013. Second single “Come Together” was released June 12, 2014, and third single “Bright” on February 2, 2015.