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Colour You

from Wear Headphones by Flying Batteries

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“Colour You” (demo title “Giant Fish Attacks a Viking Ship”) dates back to around 2009 or so, where it was basically a long intro we were originally going to open sets with. The guitars and drums would all come in at the same time and with a lot of different harmonies, and it had vocoder, strings, and was a little hectic. We revisited the track in 2013 and I set to work salvaging it, turning it in to a proper Flying Batteries song, stripping a lot of the guitars back and working on a more cohesive intro and rhythmic drums with Jack. I used the jazzmaster in the song tuned to EbADGBEb, turned the treble way up, had a compressor and the roland space echo set to a wildly long reverb only setting. The idea was for the chorus section, with the keyboard lick and the hectic drums, to sound absolutely chaotic so the intro, verse and bridge all sound like more of a relief for your ears, and I hope we accomplished it. The song was always one that I've been pretty fond of, so I was maybe a little too controlling on the production on it, as Jack and I finished it almost entirely before Craig added the synths. We were originally going to just use the microkorg's organ setting for the organ parts, but Joe at Unity managed to get the organ at the studio back to working order and it was recorded on a whim, and it turned out pretty well.

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It could be our last night in this home
From these bricks and through these bones
You whisper through the door
But he knows that you are there
I was made to follow you
I was made to colour you
No black and white could hold you
No black and white could hold you

She used to sing his praises
Until the day he left us
Nothing to left to hold you
Nothing left but home

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from Wear Headphones, released September 26, 2015

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"It sounds like folk music that happens to be made with synths and loud drums"

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