CRISPIAN MILLS

The Kula Shaker linchpin on how Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel’s producer Bob Ezrin helped the band to channel their inner prog rockers.

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“We started making [1999 album] Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts in America with Rick Rubin and George Drakoulias both producing. We ended up back in England, and Bob Ezrin was happy to come over and work with us. “He was obsessed with the running order of the songs – the absolute priority for him was telling the story. And Bob brought out our prog sensibility. We were completely up for the theatrics – bringing the curtain up at the beginning of the album, and bringing it down at the end. I learned from his eye for detail, his ear for the difference between a good and bad take. ‘There’s never enough overdubs,’ he’d say. ‘You can always add on more and it will feel just right.’ “We spent seven months on David…

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