"I was really taken aback by 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote, when I read it a few years ago, and I guess the song just sort of came out of that.
It’s one of the older tunes on the record. Actually, the guitar solo at the end Will recorded on a tour bus in Germany maybe two years ago or more. Since then, Serial happened, and Making a Murderer and there’s this fresh advent of true crime in culture being like a massive deal, and I found that really interesting.
So we then put in, got a friend to put in a little quote at the end that says, “This is a collect call from the prison” just as a kind of nod to that, because I did think it was interesting that we had this song which is about the first wave of true crime fiction. I guess the song’s another super-happy Bastille song that looks at dark subjects. It very loosely looks at kind of capital punishment and how weird it is, and two wrongs don’t make a right and all that kind of stuff".
In interview, Dan Smith said
"I was really taken aback by 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote, when I read it a few years ago, and I guess the song just sort of came out of that.
It’s one of the older tunes on the record. Actually, the guitar solo at the end Will recorded on a tour bus in Germany maybe two years ago or more. Since then, Serial happened, and Making a Murderer and there’s this fresh advent of true crime in culture being like a massive deal, and I found that really interesting.
So we then put in, got a friend to put in a little quote at the end that says, “This is a collect call from the prison” just as a kind of nod to that, because I did think it was interesting that we had this song which is about the first wave of true crime fiction. I guess the song’s another super-happy Bastille song that looks at dark subjects. It very loosely looks at kind of capital punishment and how weird it is, and two wrongs don’t make a right and all that kind of stuff".