The video was directed by Murdo Barker Mill. Initially from London, Murdo is a Brooklyn-based movie pupil at Colombia college, and the son of acclaimed mild artist and Oscar successful cinematographer Adam Barker-Mill.
Settle for Me As I Am
I grew up in grunge period Seattle and although I don’t suppose that may usually be ‘heard’ in my music, this tune and ‘Make Me Higher’ are the closest exceptions… though it appears absurd to say that “out loud”. Joey G ii, who wrote and recorded the file with me, is a really proficient, sick guitar participant and we had a number of enjoyable letting him rip on this one, leaning into extra crunchy, toasted vocals and overdriven guitar tones. I needed to stability a few of my extra emo influences with vibrant synth pops and anthemic melody. Excessive, low, pleased, unhappy!
Me as not an attachment to you, an enhancement certain, however singular, like a clip-on earring.
Nearly a need for objectification, as a result of that’s some type of sick acceptance.
Submitting, no matter.
Make Me Higher
Spoken phrase, dance ground Zage gone smooth! This tune is about studying issues about your self by way of the eyes of one other individual. I used to be enjoying round with a number of completely different vocal deliveries on the time, pushing myself to embrace the human points of my voice, and the imperfections. The distinction of the stripped down, spoken supply of the verse and the stacked octaves and harmonies of the refrain actually spotlight two extremes that I attempted to interweave all through the whole album – the superbly polished and ethereal with the guttural, no nonsense realness. LOL, indulge me.
Self medicating, relationship as a bandaid, spackle.
You make me higher , perceive me higher than anybody, due for a checkup.
Bored, With You Interlude
This bridge between the a & b sides serves to anchor the file in place for me, that place being Hood Canal. That is one other one which solidified early on within the recording classes, as we have been enjoying with completely different variations and instructions to take with ‘Bored, With You’. It has that feeling that just about as you’re listening to it, it’s being written and kind of unfolding in an experimental, thoughts of its personal sort of method. I really like a tune that builds and builds to no payoff and it felt proper to maintain this sense of rigidity transferring into the second half of the file.
The break down – the darkish facet.
Slipping into consolation is one factor, bottoming out is one other.
Nervousness in comparisons, frustrations stemming from a quiet, unstated sample.
Feeling the tipping level, however by no means reaching it.
No resolve, head down.
Prince
Prince I wrote on my childhood upright piano in a single sitting, on an evening that had me doubting a number of what I had believed to be true about longevity as an artist and the pursuit of music. After we went to file it it kind of took on a lifetime of its personal. I really like journey hop and we leaned into that affect with the drums and the whole lot else simply adopted go well with. I prefer to suppose it begins in a reasonably paranoid place and reaches a little bit of a resolve in acceptance because the monitor progresses.
I’m my very own fallen idol.
Previous inspirations irrelevant.
Giving up.
Curtains closing/lights going out.
Acceptance in unacceptance.
Anger in failure.
FAILURE.
I’m not a genius.
In The Gaze
This tune went by way of many various iterations over time and it’s most likely the oldest monitor on the file. Finally this kind of sluggish dancey, waltzy association felt like probably the most intimate and applicable reflection of the lyrical content material. To me the tune could be very bed room mirror, curtains drawn, voices in your head, working as much as one thing, giving your self a pep discuss. It actually takes me again to being a young person and staying up late enjoying guitar in my room.
Required studying. Show shelf.
Ready for an expertise to be dictated, not desirous to set a tone. Wash over me, reluctancy.
Residence alone, do I nonetheless exist. Male gaze is a sophisticated and sometimes averted factor. Not anymore.
Feed the Dog
This tune is about household, as is the file as a complete, and particularly the household you select for your self. Years within the making, it lastly comes out at an attention-grabbing time for me. This yr I’ve gone by way of a separation with my accomplice of 10 years, marking a major guide finish of pursuing life alongside anyone else, sharing desires and objectives, till you don’t anymore. Which I’m studying is completely okay. I’m pleased that this launch will help me shut an unbelievable chapter of my life, and hopefully open a brand new one.
Simply dwelling.
Routine tethering you to actuality.
Making a household, what it means on the bottom.
The care and a focus you present somebody you like, trumps all ambition, and really feeling like it’s sufficient.
Bliss within the little issues.
Grounding work.
The fireside.
For My Pals of Lewisham
I spent probably the most childhood of my younger grownup life roaming the streets of South London – falling in love, with an individual, a metropolis, a tradition, all of it actually. For that purpose, London has at all times felt just like the closest factor I’ve to dwelling. I’ve moved round so much and at all times felt like I left part of myself in SE4. Joe grew up in London and has a sophisticated relationship with the town. That is actually a love tune that we wrote to a spot that shaped us as people and as a pair.
Lacking dwelling.
Formative instances for higher and worse.
Ready for a bus for therefore lengthy. Like so, so lengthy you’re pressured to search out consolation in different issues – distractions, different types of transport even. You’re satisfied buses aren’t for you ultimately, then two buses come without delay. However you possibly can solely journey one, as they’re destined for various locations. C’est la vie child.
Feed The Dog is out now on Rhythm Part Worldwide.
