I stole this idea from A-Love, thought it was a mad idea for some blog shit - online liner notes of songs off "Towards the Light", to give a bit of background colour to the songs. As you can see, I'm digging the self-indulgent blogging tip and doing my best to avoid the important shit I need to get done.
First up is one of our favourite joints off the album: "The Lost Boys". If you haven't heard it, I've uploaded it to our MySpace.
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This was the last song which we wrote and recorded for the album. The album was lacking a song which banger a little bit harder than some of the softer shit we had on there, so we hit up the Prestons don himself, Adit. I'd wanted to write something which referenced the Lost Boys, as in the orphan mateys in "Hook". I thought the idea of a group of young dudes with no families all rolling together and running amuck was cool, plus the scene were they create that crazy feast by using their imaginations is the jumpoff. So, we ended up trying to write a loose story about a crew of streetkids who come from broken homes and thus roll with each other everywhere they go, skating and painting throughout the city. The whole song came together pretty quickly, as we were working to a deadline, and ended up being one of our favourites off the LP. Jimmy came through the studio that day with a pretty killer hangover after a big night, which is why he sounds more gruff on this track. Adit absolutely slayed the beat, we were very lucky to snap it up. If we had a Def Jam budget, it's the sort of song you could make a really mad film clip for. Alas, we don't.
More online liner notes to come..
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3 comments:
Good lookin on the blog. It's a little hard for me to keep up with shit from the other side of the world. The feast in hook is the shit, frosting ice cream pizzas would be dank.
man i aint seen Lost Boys in fucking years! I'm buying it this weekend 100%!
and some hilltop sampling never goes astray
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