I have quite an archive of voice memos on my phone of either me whisper-scatting ideas into the mic when overly caffeinated at work or ancient bedroom recordings of half-realised riffs that await their time to be inserted into a song, only to be ditched again due to not fitting the vibe. When you say that your music does whatever it wants whenever it wants, does that mean that there’s nothing conservative about songwriting in your case, in the sense that you don’t always make sure there’s a flow, purpose, and order to your songs?įüj: We try to always include call-backs to previous riffs and melodies throughout the length of a song without impeding the flow with a random abrupt riff, although that has been known to happen. The songs more or less decide where they want to go and then we look at the piece afterwards to varying degrees of satisfaction. As we don’t really do much tabbing, demoing, click tracking etc, all of the songs come together very organically and it’s generally only in hindsight, or when we are trying to re-learn a song we haven’t played in a while, that they seem complicated. Priority is always the riffs/song and balancing potential hooks and melody while keeping it savage.Īlex: It’s always a bit of a blur, the writing process. I think if more legit players learnt our tunes it would be apparent we aren’t very tech at all, it’s just the desperation and stress that translates through the recordings because we are pushing ourselves to nail the tracks. Absorbing all of those gig experiences and rocking frequently with Alex and Max have organically led to these bizarro song structures, I mean it’s no secret we all enjoy progressive rock but we don’t intentionally make goofy songs just for the sake of technical wankery. I guess it’s just from playing more often and in different environments and slowly desensitizing yourself to the usual triggers and pain variables ˗ all that stuff. ![]() I personally have definitely learnt a lot since the demo days, especially in a performance capacity and overcoming ˗ well, not overcoming, more like managing the anxiety that comes along with it. Well, does it make sense?įüj: It makes sense! I think since the band started, we have always wanted to write and play at this current level, however, we weren’t yet capable, and with each release we started to get more comfortable with our individual playing styles. ![]() It seems that maturity that comes with miles on the clock in your case translates into more elaborate songs that seem harder to play but easier to remember, if that makes sense.
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