Melbourne band Miami Horror are about to release their second album ‘All Possible Futures’ We caught up with band founder Benjamin Plant to chat about the new record.
What was it like recording your second album?
It was obviously a very long and slow process. It was recorded over three or four years. There’s more pressure on a second album, you kind of freak out and think that you need a big follow up. But I figured if you just stay true and do what you love.
I think on a third album you have a bit more room to move because you’ve made two, established a sound, and then you can go in any direction from there.
When you take so long to make a record, do you find you get to the end and then discover you don’t like the part you did at the beginning, can it be an eternal circle?
Yes, you do, and we were aware of that happening. On this record we really wanted to focus, not so much on classic song writing, but we wanted to create our own sound so that it wouldn’t come out three years on and have people say “We’ve already heard this sound”. We really wanted to build on the first album and be what people would expect and what was natural to us.
The album cover harks back to a classic early 80s look.
We didn’t really know how it was going to turn out but that was totally our intention. We didn’t know how much it would directly end up looking like that but we loved the concept of the legs hanging out of the convertible.
We also didn’t want to use a classic ‘70s or ‘80s car, we wanted something a bit dorkier, an early ‘90s convertible… we wanted it to be a little bit suburban.
‘All Possible Futures’ will be released on April 24th
