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Mastodon — Troy Sanders: stories around Crack the Skye
Troy Sanders discussed Mastodon’s storytelling in a PyroMusic interview quoted on 31 January 2010.
Contemporary attributed excerpts- Subject
- Mastodon
- Evidence
- Contemporary attributed excerpts
- Surviving report
- 2010-01-31
New background on a historical PyroMusic page. The original article text is not reproduced.
What the surviving evidence establishes
Troy Sanders discussed Mastodon’s storytelling in a PyroMusic interview quoted on 31 January 2010. He linked Crack the Skye with ether, following the water, fire and earth themes associated with the preceding records. For Sanders, the stories connected personal experience with a wider imagined setting.
He described songwriting as a process of sharing and developing ideas, without deciding in advance what the next album should sound like. That uncertainty was part of the conversation’s appeal. The surviving news page’s headline video came from a separate Video Hits interview at Big Day Out; it should not be presented as PyroMusic footage. [1]
What this record does not establish
Complete original interview text and original publication date have not been independently recovered.
