Song Exploder Archives

Song Exploder: Slowdive – “Sugar For The Pill”

Published February 22, 2022

With news that Slowdive are back in the studio working on their fifth album, let’s go back five – FIVE?!? – years to July 2017 when Neil Halstead appeared on Song Exploder to dissect the band’s writing process, particularly as applied to my favourite song from the self-title record, “Sugar For The Pill”. And hearing […]

Song Exploder: Franz Ferdinand – “Take Me Out”

Published April 11, 2022January 28, 2022

I’m not a big podcast guy – I’d generally rather listen to music than listen to people talk – but I do like Song Exploder, even if I frequently forget that it’s around. Their latest episode reminded me they were, however, as well as the fact that I like Franz Ferdinand (though I guess not […]