

“It’s not going to reach everybody and it’s not for everybody, but some people might really enjoy the sort of movie-ness of it, including us, because we’ve never allowed ourselves to do that. We knew that we had some more poppy songs so there was sort of a feeling of, ‘Well, this last song, which is currently 6 minutes, what would happen if we just let it really be what it wanted to be?’” he says.

“That was towards the end of the recording of this album, and I think Max Martin had given us a lot of confidence. The album ends with the 10-minute-plus “Coloratura,” a multi-suite voyage into the cosmos that’s a kind of flex from the band and represents a departure. And he may be biased but he considers Moses a very talented singer: “So I often ask him to just come and make choruses sound better.” “Apple gave me this amazing chord that I’d never thought of. Martin kept it a family affair, with writing credit on the Gomez song from daughter Apple Martin, who also supplies the intro to “Higher Power.” Son Moses Martin is credited with chorus vocals on “Humankind.”
