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Maritime Forest
05:29
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The basic arrangement for this track was written in 2008 in my apartment on Westland Ave in Boston. I was in my last semester at Berklee, and was into producing electronic music. The first half of this song originally had a house music feel. I originally wanted a rap in it. The rap I had written was about someone I was into at the time. My then girlfriend found it and was upset. This is part of the reason I don't write lyrics. True story.
The bass break in this song was written for another track I wrote while living off Park Dr in Boston by Fenway. I believe the year was 2006. That track was rather dark, and I broke up the parts to use in a few of the tracks on this album.
The outro of this tune was written by taking the bass break, finding the roots (the bass break is mostly inversions), and breaking that down on a cut time feel.
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Lovesick
04:28
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This song was written in Nashville in 2009. I was working at a nightclub and was living with my Grandmother at the time. She has a sweet living room with awesome 60's furniture. I was just jamming by myself and wrote the whole thing in a few hours. I think it was late at night.
The song is dedicated to someone who I was with for a long time. We split up, but still love each other. I'm a city girl and the city depresses him.
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Transient
03:16
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I think the verses to this tune were originally written in North Carolina when I lived off Old Vineyard Road in Winston in 2004. I carried around the idea for a while until I recorded it to the bass break in Maritime Forest. The original composition was recorded in Boston and later split up into two songs while I was living in Nashville.
The hook was written in Nashville in 2012. I didn't write the hook specifically for this tune, but was happy when the two fit well together. I originally wanted this song to have an IDM drum beat, like Squarepusher. That's where the march feel came from. Thomas described the drum beat as "linear" to Michael, who took it from there.
This song is dedicated to Mogwai. Thanks for the inspiration, guys.
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Frailty
05:47
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The premise for this song was written in Nashville about 2009 in the same awesome living room on the lake. (Gramma lives on a lake.) I showed this song to my band at the time. I remember saying something to the effect of, "this might be something cool to listen to while you're high." We had a bit of a grumpy guitarist at the time, his response was something like; "Jen, I'm as high as I've ever been right now and this song is not good." I knew better, and am glad I committed to the tune. This song was originally seven minutes long. I took out the original outro which was rather poppy and switched to a double time feel. I'll probably use that riff later in life. Ya'll will hear it, I promise.
I had a friend named Tommy. Knew him since we were 5. I think he would've dug this tune, and I think it tells an accurate portrayal of his changing mindset of his last two or so years. The outro is what I like to imagine as his happy afterlife. This song is dedicated to him.
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Losin My Grip ft. Solo
02:41
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The premise for this tune came from another song that originally had rap in it. The year was 2010 I believe. I think my first band in Nashville was going to record it, but we split before it could get recorded. I tried to get our last guitarist to write to the descending line I play in the verse, but I think the dissonance threw him off a bit, we could never get it to sound right. I told that to Thomas, and it proved no trouble for him. Jazz prevails once again.
This was Michael's favorite tune to play, even though Rashaun did drums on it. Solo wrote it about a girl. We're an emo bunch, yes?
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Mutant Eucalyptus
03:19
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The tag in the front is there because I replicated 500 of these EP's, and would run around Nashville placing them on cars with no information on the CD. The idea is the listener would hear the beginning of this tune, and learn the name of the band. Hopefully they'd Google the name and give us a social media like or something. We got a lot of unique visitors on our sites, but not a lot of likes haha. I almost got this marketing thing right! If you have one of these CDs, keep it. I cannot print anymore due to my field of work. You have a legacy. Maybe people will dig our band someday and it'll be worth money. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, ask me at a show.
The music to this tune is an interesting story. I originally played the opening riff during a bass solo I had in 2003. It was completely impromptu. Brian Gregory was backing me on drums. We were live in Danville, VA. Eric was outside taking a smoke break. I decided to get completely naked on stage before I played my solo. Eric said someone ran outside while he was smoking/I was playing, and screamed, "THAT BASSIST CHICK IS NAKED!!!!" haha Everyone ran inside. The cops came but by then we were done playing. We got the hell outta that venue. They closed down shortly after, but I honestly don't think it was because of me. The band I was in was called Valor. Look it up, we still have our Myspace up.
The rest of the riffs were just little licks I enjoyed playing by myself. I fit them all together in the key of D minor, the saddest of all keys. (Spinal Tap reference, if you don't know that movie, go watch it.)
The name Mutant Eucalyptus is from a company who planted GMO eucalyptus trees in Florida. The trees were engineered to grow 500 times faster than most trees. It is a paper company; they wanted a fast, replenishing source of lumber. The trees got out of control, and the company could not stop the growth or reproduction. Google all this it's true.
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Alternative rock from the deep south. IG @ spurgeband
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