"Our original recording of it was kind of a bit 'Arcade Fire on a bad day, Snow Patrol on a medium day'," laughs Fred Macpherson of the origins of Spector's rousing comeback track 'All The Sad Young Men' - marking a bold evolution and true coming of age for the band. We sat down with the band to talk about what went into writing it.
Watch Spector discuss 'All The Sad Young Men' in the video above
"I don't know if it's much a message per se," admits Macpherson, "but it's like a signpost that we wrote it as much for ourselves as anyone". The topic of the track focuses on reassuring listeners that even "of your life's not going as you thought, and you aren't doing the things that when you were young were led to believe were the most important things" the situation will improve. Macpherson lists the litany of reasons for self doubt: "If you haven't got a girlfriend or a boyfriend, if you haven't got a kid or a mortgage or you haven't moved out of your parents' house, you don't have any career paths opening up to you, you've come out of university and you don't have a job..."
He continues: "It's just kind of a tune to say 'It's OK to not know, and it's OK to feel disenchanted'. Maybe every generation feels disenchanted, but I know I did at that age, but I think for young people now the UK is a bit of a mess.
"Logical paths don't open up in the way that they might and you feel like they should. It's a song to say 'not everything is easy, glamorous and beautiful, but that doesn't mean there's not truth. It's OK to feel shit and disconnected."
Watch Spector discuss 'All The Sad Young Men' in the video above
Watch above as the band delve into the origins of the song, its many evolutions, how they wanted to make a 'timeless' song with a simple message, 'the bullshit' of worrying about what others think and how the track relates to My Chemical Romance.
Spector will be performing on the Gigwise Leeds Uni Stylus Stage at Live At Leeds festival next week. For tickets and information, visit here.
