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im back from self imposed PI jail - -
party out of bounds. what do you do when someone harshes your vibe? what do you do when you harsh someone else’s vibe?
most importantly- what do you do when you crash a party? what happens if that party is continually crashing? I think that’s life, anyway.
so what do you do seems to be the question!
shoutout that sick distorted guitar at the start, it’s those little touches that make me love the bee’s, it’s so kitschy, so self-aware, and just a little uneasy- which i think is generally what new waver’s steep themselves in. these guys and gals have a sense of humor about it.
can you pull it back in line
can you salvage it in time?
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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
(sorry i’m gonna do 2)
this entire album is incredibly bonkers and sort of like being high on stimulants while being dragged around town by someone else who is even higher on stimulants…
but THIS song in particular has this feeling of a bombastic live show in hell being MC’d by a sports announcer from the 1920s
May 5, 2024
Specifically track 4 Salem Sisters
It (at least in my interpretation of the lyric) being about the social awkwardness of being at a party being depicted as being burned at the stake resonates with me an insane amount. plus someone (professor skye) called them British boygenius so you can’t go wrong. (man I wrote being a lot)
Apr 8, 2025
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Jun 3, 2025
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do it! i dont, and it has netted no positive results!
Jun 2, 2025
the operatic horror of the western male!!
i think this song more than any other showcases iggy’s vocal versatility and range. snarling, caged, paranoid, ironic, wailing, tragic (like marlon brando)
i stumble into town
just like a sacred cow
visions of swastikas in my head
and plans for everyone
May 30, 2025