BACK STORY: WALTER'S BASS

● On the track Old Skin, Adam Granduciel is credited with playing “Walter Becker’s old bass” – as in the late Steely Dan legend. “After he passed away most of Walter’s extensive collection went up for sale,” Granduciel says.

“I was lucky enough to get his late-’60s Pelham Blue Gibson Melody Maker bass

– a pretty rare bass, especially in that colour. I used it to demo basically every song on the album and I used my original take for Old Skin.

It has a very dark, punchy sound that always sits perfectly in my home recordings.”