Madder Red

Guitarist Anand Wilder told MTV News: "It was a kind of quiet, folky, acoustic lullaby that I worked on. I think I stole a lyric out of, like, a Celtic book of verse for the first line and kind of went from there. I kind of wanted to write a song in the vein of 'Jealous Guy' by John Lennon, a song about being a weak man, a gambler or something like that. So we had that basic structure for the opening, and then Chris [Keating, vocals and keyboards] had the idea to drop this really heavy beat on top of it. And it completely changed the feel of the song."

Wilder recalled to Drowned In Sound: "'Madder Red' was a folky kind of jam that Ira [Wolf Tuton,bass] had sent to me, and I wrote all the lyrics and the melody. I think I took a line from this book of Celtic verse that I had, which was 'even when my luck is down…' it's a Kenny Rodgers/Glenn Campbell type of song, just the idea of being on the road, not living a normal 9 to 5 lifestyle and following your passion and that means you're away from your loved ones for long periods of time. It's a song of resignation, really, but then we threw a massive industrial sounding beat over it, which created a very interesting juxtaposition with the sweet sounding vocal."

The song's music video stars Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Kristen Bell as the owner of an unconventional pet. Directed by Andreas Nilsson, the creature in the video was inspired by a story he heard about a deformed sheep.