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Nathan Willett and Matt Maust of the long-running and acclaimed indie rock band Cold War Kids grew up as huge U2 fans. Their love of the band came to a head with the release of Davis Guggenheim’s documentary From the Sky Down, which covered the recording process of the legendary Irish band’s album Achtung Baby.
On this episode of The Spark Parade, the two get into what they love so much about the documentary before gushing about the album itself. Nathan dives into the new process that the band came up with that was shown in the documentary, and why he felt that was so essential to U2’s new sound.
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“I just love that, the idea of ‘we didn’t really have songs then.’ It’s like, what are you talking about?” Willett says. “You were a stadium band playing ‘With or Without You,’ you’re not considering that a song? But I love it. It’s so weird to say, but I think it was true for them.”
They spend more time getting into the ways From the Sky Down captures the experience of playing in a band, the surprises that came from watching it, and how it reminded Maust of why he got into music in the first place.
Listen to Nathan Willett and Matt Maust talk about From the Sky Down in this episode of The Spark Parade. Please also take the time to like, review, and subscribe to The Spark Parade wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network.
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Host Adam Unze (The Opus) explores creativity in all its forms on The Spark Parade by asking musicians, artists, comedians, and other creators to share the single cultural work that has most inspired them. Whether it comes from the world of music, film, comedy, visual art, or literature, we all have something that sparks our own creative desires. On The Spark Parade, guests reveal the single piece of art that ignites within them to fire of creation.
