So that clears that up, right?
What do you mean, you love the record and you want to find out more? Okay then, luckily we chatted to Danny and Jimmy ahead of the release. Hopefully it helps…
AHOY THERE, SEAGULLMEN! WHAT INITIALLY ATTRACTED YOU TO PENNING ODES TO THE DEEP SEA?
DANNY CAREY (DRUMS): “The great thing about the sea is if you run out of inspiration, you just keep going deeper! No one knows what’s down there in the ocean, we know more about the moon than the bottom of the ocean… for real!”
JIMMY HAYWARD (GUITAR): “Though I was a musician first – that’s how me and Danny first met – I’ve mainly worked in the movie business. I’m known as a director or writer or film-maker, so naturally we really care about that visual element, everything is carefully crafted because we’re artists in different ways. When I was a kid, growing up, I loved album art. I would sit there, and I still do to this day as if I was still eight years old, looking at the covers like [Iron Maiden's] The Number Of The Beast and listening to the music. Danny would bring over things he loved, like Genesis and Yes, these heavy concept things and I would stare at the art for ages. I feel like this band has to be like a record cover – I love that singular image that captures everything perfectly. Look at Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell, I saw the cover and thought it would be the most ripping album ever. Then it came on and I turned it off. A great record cover can even over-deliver. In this band, we all seem to have disparate, broad selection of musical tastes. We all dig nerdy prog stuff, jazz stuff, heavy shit – Danny went to the ballet the other day. I grew up watching symphonies all the time. It was actually our singer, David ‘The Doctor’ Dreyer, who had this wild vision for our nautical theme…”