Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has described his debut album with supergroup Tired Pony, which includes REMโ€˜s Peter Buck, as a โ€œdark tale of bad deedsโ€.

โ€˜The Place We Ran Fromโ€™ was recorded in one week with Bloc Party producer Garret โ€˜Jacknifeโ€™ Lee, and all the songs were laid down in first or second takes.

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โ€œThereโ€™s quite a lot of blood dripping from this record,โ€ Lightbody told Uncutโ€™s sister publication NME. โ€œYou have to go really deep into the record before you find it, but itโ€™s there. Thereโ€™s quite a lot of dark tales of bad deeds.โ€

Lightbody recruited a host of guest stars to feature on the album, including Buck, Editors frontman Tom Smith, Snow Patrol touring member Troy Stewart, Snow Patrol collaborator Iain Archer and Belle & Sebastian drummer Richard Colburn.

โ€œI had no idea if the music was going to be country, folk, blues or whatever,โ€ explained Buck, after signing on for the project. โ€œI was prepared for a punk record, I brought my mandolin. As long as it was spontaneous and improvised, it sounded like a very exciting thing to do.โ€

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โ€œIt was a loose-limbed idea of mine to get people together to record a bunch of songs Iโ€™d been writing,โ€ added Lightbody. โ€œBut when I got in the studio I realised the songs we were writing there were better than the ones Iโ€™d already written.โ€

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