For nearly two decades, Placebo have proven a divisive yet powerful tour-de-force across the globe, earning legions of insanely dedicated fans with their emotive and genre-defying rock. As they look set to take on the world again with their bold new album, Loud Like Love, we caught up with the find to find out what we can expect from the record.
Check out part one of our video interview with Placebo below, as we talk to the band about sex, drugs and smartphones...
"I'm not really too sure if we have have a main message to impart to whoever would listen," said frontman Brian Molko. "The sound of our music reflected varying degrees of how naive we were at the beginning.
"Every time we made a record, we have reacted quite veciferously to its predecessor. This time around, we've made a record which is more diverse in terms of instrumentation - it's slightly more schizo' and covers more ground sonically and takes a few more risks. In terms of song-writing it's more direct and much more vulnerable in places, than we've ever been before."
He continued: "A lot of people have said to us that 'you write songs about drugs' or this and that and specific things, and I really don't think that's true. I think we've either written about ourselves or we've written about people or relationships to sex or drugs or whatever. I think that really comes into its own on this record."
Below - part one of our video interview with Placebo:
