![]() ![]() Oh also there's a recording of this talk that David Foster Wallace gave at some university that inspired a lot of the lyrical themes for this song. There's a lot more layers behind the theme of this track but that would take too long, maybe another time. ![]() I'm not sure if that makes sense, but that was the main inspiration for this song. ![]() So essentially you have lived two lifetimes in one, and if you keep subdividing your time, you live more and more lives until you are theoretically immortal. There's a finite amount of things a person generally does in a lifetime, so if you can somehow manage your time so well to the point that you do all of that in just half your life, then you can live out a whole extra life's worth of things. I was also researching concepts of time and the self, this idea of immortality through subdivision of time. I think I wrote most of the first section on the tram, bunch of trams, and other public transport which was giving me a lot of paranoia at the time. I often finish the instrumental side of the song way before I finish writing the words, and for this song especially, because it's so big and intense and multi-phased, I struggled for a long time trying to think what this song could even be about. The lyrics also came in piece by piece, and took ages. Again I just worked on it slowly over several months. That noisy intro before the bass is lifted directly from a totally different song which was more like an industrial hardcore trap thing. Sometimes I add parts from other songs of mine that didn't work out and I see how they fit. It started with the opening riff, and then just kept getting longer and longer, I really just make it up as I go along, some of the percussion on this song is just pots and pans and other random things around house, including the fuel tank from my motorcycle, just slapping a lot of stuff. I've wanted to make this kind of song since I was like 13 so I'm not sure what made me try it, I think I was just in an experimental place at the time, lockdown and all, I guess it's just one of the many experiments that happened to work. I started the instrumental side of it sometime last year when I was living in a bungalow. Your ability to swerve between genres and styles is very prevalent across this EP and specifically in “Subdivide” blending multiple genres and moods to create this upbeat, pulsating pallet of sonic bliss.Ĭonsidering the grandeur of the song and its production - what was the process in recording this track, where did it all start and how did it end up? That used to be my writing process, writing short little one liners and bars in one big note, and whenever it came time to write a verse or a chorus I would just grab from that list, cross off what I've used and collage it. I think I wrote the bridge bit where the beat drops out in New York. The lyrics were mostly pieced together from different one liners and bars I had lying around on the notes app on my phone while I was travelling, hence the euro-flexing. Yeah the beat for this song (or at least the first version, which sounds quite different) was made in early 2019 or maybe late 2018 and was originally meant for TKay, over time I just kept revisiting the beat and improving it. Hopefully that will change in the future, I'm getting tired of the vault. That being said though, all of my songs spend some time in the vault, as a default. Heelys was lying in the vault for quite a while and it's one of the older songs on the project. Where in the process did you write this track? Had it been sitting in the vault for a while before the rest of the EP took shape? Or is it a more recent track? “Heelys” was the first single off the EP. Also lyrically it's kind of an introduction to the rest of the E.P cos it's literally just a song about me listening to music, like an homage to music as an art form, but described as this euphoric and psychedelic feeling. I know a good intro track when I hear one, so when it came time to start thinking about the order of the E.P was trying to decide what the intro track should be, I came across an old loop on my laptop and I thought it sounded like an intro track so I fleshed it out. It just makes things feel bigger than they actually are, it adds an additional layer to the listening experience, it's like world-building. I've always considered myself a project artist, and most of my favourite albums are ones that flow well, that have a central narrative or theme or concept. I think the opening track is just as important as the closing track, and just as important as the middle track, and so on. ![]() What is your thought process that goes into the opening track of a body of work? How important do you think it is to set up the rest of the EP? ![]()
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