As much out of sheer momentum as boredom. For Sound Of Water , apparently, it was time once again to throw away the road maps. We were looking more for a particular sound on this record. The lyrics were written pretty much as we went along. But it wasn't like a theme album in that sense.
People are into the garagey kind of rock, but nothing definitive as big beat.
Sound Of Water's strengths lie in the shimmering, organic wash applied to the simple, elegant songcraft. So we ended up making the record in sort of a weird way, recording stripped-down versions and then giving them these versions as kind of guides. But far from the profoundly Swedish sound Johanson employed on Good Humor, the blips and bleeps that characterize the experimental German avant-garde of Roccoco seem buried or muted on Water , more the foundation than the furniture. Sometimes it was real chord changes and sometimes it was just a change in the tone of the record. If, with the sampling on Water , the loopiness of earlier recordings is largely missing, the band still maintains an ethereal quality that endears its fans.