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January 13, 2017 - No Comments!

VIDEO RELEASE: Sunken Pages

Nine days before we traveled to Austin to join up with Kyle Lent and make our last record, I was running through all of our songs that had made the cut, plinking them out on my piano at home. In that moment, I started playing with chords that don't normally get played next to each other, and then the chorus lyrics showed up.

I sat on the whole thing for two days, because "we were past the point of new material". I couldn't shake the melody, so I finished writing lyrics for two verses and recorded the whole thing on my iPhone. I listened back once. If I was honest, the lyrics were some of my favorite I had ever written, and the timing couldn't be worse. As I nervously composed the text to our producer, I thought, "this is dumb. This is really dumb." I hesitated. Then I pressed send.

A few hours later Kyle texted back, and said that if we didn't include this song on the record, "he would refuse to produce it". I think he was kidding, but his point was made.

After recently stumbling on the video recordings from the album release party for "Hopefully Broken", I decided to share a few of the songs from that night. The first one I'll post is from the "Sunken Pages". Hope you enjoy.