THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY!

When Uncut went to see Recording In
Progress at Somerset House, we watched
Harvey and her band work on a song called
“Guilty”. Sadly, it didn’t make the finished
album. Here, Flood explains why…

"'Guilty' was fascinating. It was one
of the discovery songs for us – for
the way songs could push forward
into a new territory. i’d been experimenting with
contact-micing a tom-tom, and then putting it
through a whammy pedal. I suggested that maybe
we could have a little bit of fun if Kenrick [Rowe]
played the tom-tom and i manipulated the pitch of
it through an amp. We had so much fun doing it.
Then as the session went on, it became quite a
difficult song to get to the place where Polly, John
and I felt it should go. By the end of the process,
even though it was finished, it felt a little bit outside
the rest of the material – as if it had come from a
different place in time. The record felt stronger as
a body of work for not having it on. That’s not to say
that it might not see the light of day. This is part of
witnessing a small part of the process – it can be
completely contradictory to the end result. I think
Polly’s idea of people only getting tiny little
snapshots is so brilliant, because it doesn’t destroy
the mystique. It probably adds to it."

how do you find those huge pictures?

You can listen 1:30 minutes in iTunes New Zeland. If you have NZ or Australia account you can even buy it!

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/guilty-single/id1132751467