Here I Am EP - The making and meaning of
Track listing:
Here I Am
70’s Child
Girl
Taking Over
Released 25th Nov 2013
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/here-i-am-ep/id726681567
Bandcamp - https://bleech.bandcamp.com
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/here-i-am-ep/id726681567
Bandcamp - https://bleech.bandcamp.com
So as a build up to the release of Humble Sky early next year, we decided to release a kind of EP/Maxi single.
This release is probable the last ‘punk’ type of release we will do.
Apart from ‘Girl’ this EP is a rock out type of ting.
Humble Sky moves into a much more mature solid set of songs that feel are like a step forward. So, even though these are good old fahioned live favourites, the Here I Am EP felt like the right stepping stone to branch Nude to Humble Sky.
‘Here I Am’, the second single from Humble Sky, is certainly the riffy-est song we have written yet and the lyrics take a darker turn in which the HS album follows suit. It’s durdgy and nasty with a big open chorus. Matt came up with the riff and we were like yeah that’s fat. I wanted to write a chorus with sparse guitar part and a soaring vocal so thats what I did. Katherine wanted to add harmonies under the lead vocals to get that haunting feeling so she did. Its the sort of song that creeps up behind you in the dark, then takes you for all you got.
Here I Am, moves underground
Raging fists, twists the sound
Your sinking ship, i’ll kiss your lips
Hold my hand, the best place to stand.
So Here I Am
Here I Am, your little girl
Standing tall, give us a twirl
Bite your teeth, eyes dance with greed
Hold my hand, the best place to stand
So Here I Am
Letitng it all, letting it all hang out
Don’t stop, don’t stop till i’m dead
Then you come around with an aching head
And I will find you and i’ll get you, in the end
Looking at the years past looking at the years
There’s one for all and then you let them all go down.
70’s Child is more tongue and cheek. It’s a feel good song, with a hats of to T-Rex because Marc Bolan is the man. We had fun recording this song, its kind of got a mod feel that we could have taken much further lyrically and melodically but we aren’t mod so. But there are a lot of 60’s mod bands that we grew up listening to that went into this track. The Kinks, The Small Faces, and obviously The Who. I mean why else would we play Hiwatt!
70’s Child is British song. British lyrics and British attitude. I had a picture of a kid at school in 2013 wearing flares and listening to these bands and his name was there from the start. Tony was an odd ball that didn’t fit in because he is 40 years too late and he needed a song written about him. If there was a sepia button in pro-tools it would be on full.
Tony’s a weirdo, he thinks he’s born in ’57 or something
With all the big kids driving VW campers.
He thinks he’s cool, I said “its old skool” he said “Oh well whatever then”
“I’ll pay the price, of living the life of a 70’s Child”
He listens to T-Rex, he thinks their cosmic man
I said I agree I mean, he’s got a point
But there’s no way of knowing, if he’ll ever come back
To the time to the world in which we’re living in
Tony’s a weirdo, he thinks he’s born in ’57 or something
With all the big kids driving beatles and mopheads
He thinks he’s cool, I said “its old skool” he said “Oh well whatever then”
And it’s the sweetest thing you do
Like when one and one are two
They all laugh and call you names
Cos they all think that your insane.
‘Girl’, for Rosie our friend x
And this girl, has gone away
And taken with her time, to grow old
“I, wanna see the world, from heavens gates”
Oh sweetheart
Oh sleep tight
xxxx
‘Taking Over’, “they say we need a revolution, well you know”. There are too many things wrong with western society, no we aren’t Russell Brand yet with all the long words and I have been a drug addict story, although he has a point. I wouldn’t not vote, i’d spoil my ballot because that counts on ‘paper’. They know your saying I don’t agree with any of you. Too many women died for us to get the vote, it would feel like a waste of time. “Looking at the lives on the other side of the world through a screen thats bitter clean, it’s obscene”. Maybe instead of watching X-Factor and playing X-Box young people could make a difference these days.
Oh, yeah we’re taking it over.
Waiting for you to follow me, waiting for the parting of the seas, follow me
Blink and its gone, out of sight, keep your eyes wide shut through the night, and daylight
Watching other lives on the other side, of the world through a screen, thats bitter clean, its obscene.
Let’s start a war worth fighting for, i’ll lead you through the street of the east end or I’ll fall
Going to a party, flying now you get scared
Tell them like you mean it, tell them like you ever cared
Out of sight, Out of mind
Looking through the lens to the greater Queen
Find your horse and men and set them free
Oh, yeah we’re taking it over
So I hope you enjoy the EP, according to Geri Halliwell's last release we only need to sell 400 copies in the first week to make the top 100…
Jen
Humble Sky out early 2014 - spoiler below.....
Track Listing*:
Not Like You
I Just Want You
Isolate
Love Is Free
Here I Am
Sparks
Light Up The World
Marching Song
Easy Ride
Grow
*order may change ;)
All photos by Jordan Curtis Hughes
