Song Order Quotes

I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.

I've always cared about how certain songs fade into other ones and which songs should follow others. I studied that as a consumer and fan before I even got into music.

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.

Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.

I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too.

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.