Interviews about how they feel about the album and song:
http://nbhap.com/people/london-grammar-interview/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/05/london-grammar-if-you-wait-interview
How would you explain the sound of the album?
Daniel: It is quite a dark record, full of emotion and sadness. We wanted to make a record that had a consistent mood and atmosphere, and we think we managed to make that possible. A lot of people will find the album to be quite chilled out, and restrained.
What kind of instruments do you use in the new album?
Daniel: The main instruments used are Guitar, Piano and Drums. We also were lucky enough to have some live strings recorded, which were arranged by the legendary Wil Malone. There is of course a lot of electronic and synth programming on the album.
I read that Hannah Reid writes a lot of the songs her self. One of your songs “Wasting My Younger Years” is about her ex-boyrfriend. How much Hannah Reid is in this album?
Daniel: Hannah writes all of what she sings, so you could so they is quite a lot of her in this album. This record is written entirely by the three of us, with no outside writers involved so it is very personal to us all.
If you could release this album in a different time era, which one and why?
Daniel: That’s an interesting question! We would probably say….. mid to late 1970s because we all dream of playing a gig with FLEETWOOD MAC.
"I have a lot of friends now who are really lost," says Reid. "We got to go to university and have a good education, but we're finding ourselves in a position where it's impossible to get jobs, and we're terrified. So many people I know don't know what to do with their lives."
Though written mostly from experiences in Reid's personal life, If You Wait speaks to inauspicious beginnings of adulthood. It is often said that there are no angry young bands any more, but demoralisation rarely manifests itself in rage. In your 20s, anger gets taken out on your relationships and your self-esteem. This is a record that whispers with the pain of "a life that is cold" and being left "to the wayside, like you do". Perhaps it is the first quarter-life-crisis album.
After reading a few interviews with the band and putting some examples above, I have decided to take what they have said and work with this as inspiration for the cover. My initial idea is to design a sleeve for the song 'Help' with influence from 1970s cover sleeves.
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