Hit Liquor

I love this song but it has always been a mystery. You know something seedy and perhaps very disturbing is going on, but you aren't sure quite what.

Wedren recently had this enlightening bit to say about the song: "It all connects up in a Rubik's Cube kind of a way," Wedren says of the song, which was originally written in 1993 with guitarist Nathan Larson. "It's playful, mischievous, sexual, dark, and unsettling. Is the subject dead? Or just asleep? Will she come to my woozy party? There will be kissing and licking. There's also a Geisha-like formality to it, a seduction dance."

He adds: "I think of 'Hit Liquor' as a ViewMaster reel. We supply the pictures, you supply the meaning."

Oh I love this band. So the way to listen to this song is imagine you’re at a noisy busy party and you’re slightly drunk and you’re just catching bits and pieces of conversations which feed into your impressions of the space and the experience. Someone’s talking about losing weight someone else is gossipping and so on. And people are taking ‘hits’ of whatever, mostly weed, and drinking liquor, thusly, ‘hit liquor’. Craig Wedren sings in an impressionistic style. HIs stuff is spatial, like a constellation. It’s you that connect the stars in the sky and see it for what it is. Really cool stuff, as the listener is fully invited into the process of creation.