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Coming Back Stronger
Coming Back Stronger

t was hard, I’m not going to lie,” Robyn lyrics anyway,” Robin states. “We wanted to tell what the guy can achieve. The one song, I
“Istates when talking about the making a story and we’ve kind of gone down the literal think, ‘The Devil You Know’, Rich had come up
of Stone Broken’s third album - ‘Revelation’. “I route. So, it was more like searching deeper with the song, music-wise, and Dan came in
think writing it and recording it was just a whole within yourself to make the lyrics sound more and was like, ‘That sounds absolutely amazing,
challenge in itself; we went through some dark ‘pretty’, if that makes sense. But we all experi- but I think that melody you’ve got could be the
times writing it. You literally get into the zone enced it to be fair; just like, ‘Can this be better? guitar riff, rather than the chorus melody.’ It’s
that much, it’s kind of hard to see past a certain Can I make this sound any better than what it stuff like that, where we kind of sit back and
point.” Working with award-winning producer is already?’ It was quite tough. But we had to think, ‘Oh okay, that would be cool, actually.
Dan Weller (SikTh / Young Guns / Enter go through that to get to where we needed to That’s a really good idea’. Dan would literally
Shikari) - who Robyn says ended up being like be.” just come in and we would work together and
a fifth band member - it was the first time the We ask, how much did having Dan’s per- try and get to the same kind of goal, where the
band had faced questioning over the way they spective on the songs change the vision the songs sound absolutely amazing; we just had
wrote songs, which Rich in particular, as the band originally had for them? “I think Dan to change a few things in the process! He kind
main songwriter, found difficult to contend with opened our eyes to a lot of things on this of changed our whole perspective on songwrit-
initially. “We’ve never been faced with ques- album; things that we didn’t necessarily under- ing really.”
tions like, ‘What does this mean?’ and ‘What stand at the time,” Robyn answers. “He’s just Robyn looks back at the whole process
does that mean?’ We’ve always kind of wrote, an absolute wizard when it comes to writing, and feels fortunate to have gone through the
I guess you could say, straight to the point, with recording, and everything else. It’s just crazy experience, as gruelling as it was at times. The

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