Forsake
I feel like we got about halfway through building this track, and both RC and I had added a bunch before it got left behind.
I feel like we got about halfway through building this track, and both RC and I had added a bunch before it got left behind.
A homesick song for a homesick generation.
Not only did this track provide us with a name for our act, but the laid-back groove gave us our second video, which is sufficiently abstract that I think it holds up pretty well.
This must be my third or fourth take on this song, now with an actual band. It’s certainly well-developed at this point.
A demo of a song I would return to years later.
This song developed as it went, and gathered meaning in its abstract nature like a snowball rolling downhill. At an epic length of almost six minutes it was our longest track, it kept growing organically until some kind of bizarre feedback-drenched guitar solo came out the other end.
Sunlite was the second song I wrote just for the band we were calling Bootyproof. Having done a poppy rock track earlier with Officially, we were feeling like this was our groove. We had started to play shows, and these tracks anchored the set. We were both also going through our own relationship issues at…