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I wrote this song, and I interpolated schoolboy q’s chorus in Man of the Year
Also I took travis scott‘s Love Sick idea and flipped it
As well as used the sample for Hell of a Night
Now I call this song Anora.
I like to think of it as the continuation of Anora
the events that happened after if you will…
Mar 28, 2025
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The first single from Winter Boyfriend from the upcoming album set a, frankly, very different note. 'anx/bodies' is an outlier for us, musically and lyrically, but when putting the final touches to the album it was one of the songs that people seemed instinctively to engage with if they weren't broadly invested in our main thing, essentially indie/indie-punk made by a would-be emo band. At the very least it provoked a reaction.
It's a song inspired by a very specific series of events but is not specifically autobiographical. Outside of the world of this song i am much less forward about sex. I enjoy being 'too much' with friends but i really don't want it going anywhere my family might hear it. Repression is fun! I often wonder if that's similar to what actors feel when doing nudity or whatever. It's a case of, "I don't want to know you've seen me experience that?" Anyway, honesty can help in art, but also maybe so too does a little internal repression.
It was written about a memory of going to a university disco, arriving at the club where everyone was looking hot and cool, and i suddenly becoming very aware of my inability to be calm. It is essentially about over-stimulation and amorousness and the confusion of that smashing like a wrecking ball through any semblance of chill i might have had.
The verse bass riff is really old, easily over 10 years old. I wrote it for a different project, a Death From Above 1979 rip-off thing, and my pal Martin played bass, while i sang and drummed. The song was unremarkable but the riff was cool. There was no way i wasn't keeping it. Also, it explains why it's the only song that uses a fuzz bass tone. Yet.
I have no idea when i came up with the guitar riff but it's one of my favourite parts i've written. It's rythmic and a little bit dissonant, but i think the G# implies an E Major chord, making it A minor natural (sorry music theory experts, probably butchering this).
I was also unsure if i could allow myself to write the chorus which used power chords. It always feels too basic. But it worked in the context of the song. I finished it years ago aside from a few lyrical tweaks and the introduction sound (chord played, tremolo arm depressed as it fades out, recorded and reversed). Also when mixing the song my references were very different and included a lot of 00s and 10s music, including bands that have been grandfathered into the whole 'indie-sleaze' thing, and it made me realise the second verse needed, nay demanded!, a cowbell and some percussion (the other percussion is drumming on glass bottles fyi).
I feel like 'anx/bodies', and the song that follows it, 'on our way home', are two sides of the same coin. One uptight, repressed yet explosive, and the other unrelenting, desperate and flailing. You could almost imagine the latter being later in the same night, getting existential when worse-for-wear. More on that one later.
Jun 19, 2024
fav losercore song from my fav losercore band (the strokes were losers who willed their coolness onto people. interpol were cool because they accepted their loserdom and didnt pretend otherwise)
i generally dk what tf the lyrics on any of these songs are saying actually but i like the imagery. and also this is what living in new york is like, not the less-than-zero black and white grain of Is This It.
New York is being thrown into a variety of situations and having no language for it. so you are left with feelings that morph into phrases like “she says brief things/her love’s a pony” or “friends dont waste wine/when there’s words to sell” and “will you put my hands away/will you be my man”.
does that make sense? does anything in this city make sense?
anyway: i rediscovered this song a couple of years ago and instantly the music video flashed in my brain. see the photo. it feels like it’s from a kiyoshi kurosawa film (pulse not cure). it changed my brain chem and made me embrace the loserdom that is living in bushwick…i dont know what the obstacle is, but i have a good idea.
May 28, 2025
For all y'all Interpol fans out there, I wrote a long piece about the making of the album for Magnet, the first in which every original band member actually participated (I even heard back from Carlos D although he's not quoted, per his request). I learned a thing or two. And still love this band.
https://magnetmagazine.com/2017/05/29/magnet-classics-the-making-of-interpols-turn-on-the-bright-lights/
Feb 17, 2024
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i believe fashion could have a much greater impact if we started embracing our true interests instead of chasing trends and doing it for inclusivity
Anyways here’s a song that serves as a commentary on this thought
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Every since I started using my phone more productively it’s been bugging out on me
It’s like apple is punishing me for lowering my phone usage
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Yes I stole the recipe from starbucks
it’s just such a good sandwich
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