The three members of the Bell are spread out over the Swedish cities of Stockholm and Malmo, so when it came to making sophomore album Great Heat, the band was forced to do it the new-fashioned way: via email and Skype. This digital setup worked well for the trio—until it came time to sequence the album. Says multi-instrumentalist Nicklas Nilsson, “I guess we should have had some more calls or a meeting to clear things more easy. A couple of days into the process, everything went chaos. We rapidly cycled through stages of consensus to massive conflicts. Beasts from a biblical hell took turns in throwing series of harsh words at each other.” Luckily, the band worked out its differences, and the LP, the follow-up to 2007’s Make Some Quiet, came out earlier this year via the Badman label. Watch the video for Great Heat‘s second single, “Whatever Did You Say?” below.
