This song was a secret for awhile. Mainly because the lyrics were a bit confessional in regards to a relationship I was going through. I feared that if my girlfriend discovered the paper with the lyrics, we'd have to confront our issues. A band from Santa Barbara called Bright Life inspired the music of this song. I always admired their use of open chords in their rock songs, something that Sugarcult doesn't do very often. Kenny's drum beat in the beginning of the song is very important. He keeps time on the rim of the tom. This is where we hear the "tick-tick tick" sound. It sounds very much like a clock and gives the track a nice ambient space. Lyrically the song is about about space and feelings of being away from home. I think these two ideas are very important to eachother and add to the songs mono verse qualities. The song's lack of bass in the verse arrangement is also something that we have never ventured into before. My favorite part of this song is the end,"December's gone, it came and went". It sums up best the way I felt about myself and the situation at the time. The song was also very difficult to record. It took three different attempts to record the rhythm guitar parts mainly because we couldn't keep our guitars in tune. Marko's intro riff is my favorite thing he played on the entire record. It was something he came up with the last night in the studio inspired by candles, coffee and chain smoking cigarettes.
(From www.sugarcult.com)
This song is probably my favourite off the album right now. If I'm sad I can just put it on and it cheers me up in about half a minute. Sugarcult are such an awesome band.
This song was a secret for awhile. Mainly because the lyrics were a bit confessional in regards to a relationship I was going through. I feared that if my girlfriend discovered the paper with the lyrics, we'd have to confront our issues. A band from Santa Barbara called Bright Life inspired the music of this song. I always admired their use of open chords in their rock songs, something that Sugarcult doesn't do very often. Kenny's drum beat in the beginning of the song is very important. He keeps time on the rim of the tom. This is where we hear the "tick-tick tick" sound. It sounds very much like a clock and gives the track a nice ambient space. Lyrically the song is about about space and feelings of being away from home. I think these two ideas are very important to eachother and add to the songs mono verse qualities. The song's lack of bass in the verse arrangement is also something that we have never ventured into before. My favorite part of this song is the end,"December's gone, it came and went". It sums up best the way I felt about myself and the situation at the time. The song was also very difficult to record. It took three different attempts to record the rhythm guitar parts mainly because we couldn't keep our guitars in tune. Marko's intro riff is my favorite thing he played on the entire record. It was something he came up with the last night in the studio inspired by candles, coffee and chain smoking cigarettes.
(From www.sugarcult.com)
This song is probably my favourite off the album right now. If I'm sad I can just put it on and it cheers me up in about half a minute. Sugarcult are such an awesome band.