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==Transcript==

[On screen: How to Destroy Angels]

TR: From a creative stand point it was fun to kind of start with a—a pretty blank slate and figure out how we wanted to do this thing. Atticus and I had been talking about working on something that was pure to the course of pure electronics, rather than kind of being a rock band with an electronic setting. I'd always kinda said I wanted to work with a female vocalist to try to experiment. Mariqueen's voice was a tool that we really were able to use in a lot of different contexts rather than just her singing the track. There's a lot of her droning away woven into things that really developed into something we—we couldn't have predicted initially.

[On screen: ShowBiz Studios | Van Nuys, CA]

We started by kinda saying fuck guitars and drum. We'd modeled ourselves much more after early sound of Sheffield...early sequencers being kinda out of sync plugged-in together. Exploring a subtly and restraint and mood which I think is what we did on the record a lot. And it wasn't a violent, Nine-Inch-Nails, ear-ringing assault. It was more about not doing that and leaving space and leaving silence. It feels much more like it has its own identity now, being unpolished and not Pro-Tooled to death and not hi-fi.

We thought a long time about how to put this on. How to pull off—if we were gonna play live how we'd do it. We were never gonna be the kind of band that toured in a van for a year, ya know? I've played 'em all...Coachella the coolest festival of all of them. How could we transform that into the coolest fucking weirdest thing ever. Ideally you'll even go "Fuck that was great!" So we've essentially spent over a year experimenting with different materials to try to present this in a way that felt cool to us. A lot of effort for just a few shows.

Mariqueen Reznor: It makes me feel a lot more comfortable being on stage seeing as how there's a visual barrier and then sometimes it will, ya know, open up and you'll get to see a peek.

[On screen: Voice of Atticus Ross]