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2. Secret Door

Furthering Turner's flight towards the fantastical, "Secret Door" sees the lead singer's bafflingly good grasp of the English language once again at the fore, and it's here that the force of his growing tendency to magic realism really becomes apparent. Where he'd previously have honed in the minutiae of a situation and described this in a perfectly literal sense , "Secret Door" sees Turner using coded messages and colourful metaphors to describe the intense media scrutiny that accompanies fame and fortune.

Turner's relationship with Chung is once again a potential influence on the subject matter of the song, and Alex's horror at being thrust into the limelight gives the track both an air of melancholy and a touch of regret. This is all suitably backed up by "Secret Door"'s instrumentation for sure, where weeping organ keys blend into kaleidoscopic guitars over an intense drumbeat.

It's really a ballad cut from the same cloth as the mournful "Do Me A Favour" and needs to be held in a similarly high-regard. There have been few times since that Turner has been quite so candid.