Mystery Jets
23rd April, and Mystery Jets hit Norwich again for a sold out gig at the arts centre, before heading out for festivals over the summer. With new album Twenty One fresh out of the studio, and on the shelves of all good record stores, and recent single, Young Love featuring Laura Marling hitting the charts, we spoke to William (backing vocals, guitars/keyboards) and Blaine (vocals/guitar/keyboards), who were trying out new mullet wigs, prior to their Thetford Forest gig, where they will be supporting The Zutons.
You released Young Love with Laura Marling in March. Why was it you chose to work with her in particular?
William: We’ve been fans of hers for quite a while, over a year, and we sort of admired what she did, and we thought her voice would suit the song. We wrote it with a female vocal in mind, and she fitted really well.
For you how does Twenty One compare to Making Dens?
Blaine: I think it’s much better…
William: Much better hair…
Blaine: Yeah, new hair, new shoes…
William: More muscles… Blaine:
It’s a more muscular album, more gold…
William: More bling…it’s a much more bling album.
Blaine: I think it’s much more grown-up, but in a sense it’s younger because Henry wrote most of the lyrics on the first album, whereas we wrote most of the lyrics on the new album, with Henry as well, but it came more from us in terms of what the songs were about. On the first album, we were trying to find our feet, in a sense that we were trying to do so many things, and maybe if you listen to that record you night come out of it thinking ‘wow those guys sound like 20 different bands rolled into one’, whereas now I feel that we sound more unified. Maybe that means we have…
William: Become more boring…
Blaine: Yeah, become more boring, we’re not as adventurous anymore.
But when you were starting out who were your main influences?
William:
I think when we were starting, it was bands from that golden era of prog-rock. Like Yes, and Emerson Lake and Palmer, Syd Barrett. Psychedelic, things that were generally
