Capitol Records/UMePaul McCartney‘s latest studio album, Egypt Station, has arrived. As the former Beatles star explained in a press statement, the record is a based on the concept that “each song is like a different [train] station…a dream location that the music emanates from.”
To promote the album, McCartney has posted a series of YouTube videos featuring audio commentary about each of its 16 tracks.
About the atmospheric lead track, “Opening Station,” McCartney explains, “I liked the idea of making a montage of sounds that were sort of like a station. So we [used] the sound effects of real stations.” Additional noises then were added to create “a dreamscape.”
“I Don’t Know” was one of two songs initially issued as a single in advance of Egypt Station‘s release. McCartney says, “I wrote this after going through a difficult period…just one of those days when it’s like, ‘Oh my God, what am I doing wrong here?'” He adds that writing the tune was therapeutic, “like talking to a psychiatrist.”
The other initial single released from Egypt Station was “Come On to Me,” which Sir Paul describes as “a pickup song, and I’m imagining myself probably in the ’60s going to a party and seeing someone and thinking, …’OK, how do I make an approach here?'”
McCartney gets a bit political on a tune titled “Despite Repeated Warnings,” which he says was inspired by certain politicians “who argue that climate change is a hoax.” To make his point, he says he wrote symbolically about a mad sea captain “steering us towards the icebergs” despite being warned of the danger.
As previously reported, to celebrate Egypt Station‘s release, McCartney will play a secret concert in New York City tonight that will be streamed live on YouTube starting at 8 p.m. ET.
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