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Win Butler

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Process of Making a Song

The song Everything Now was a remix of Francis Bebe's "Coffee Cola" I started playing all these different chords over this little loop, and I just started singing a melody that was completely unrelated to the song. We ended up working with Tomah from Daff Punk in his studio in Paris. It took almost like a year to even realize it was a song or something. And we actually got Francis Bebe’s son who plays the same instrument that come to the studio to play with us.

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