New single "Not Drowning" coming this friday
I remain unconvinced by this music. And is he doubling guitar solo phrases on the drums in every song? Man, that will get old really fast if that is the case.
In interviews that’s basically what he said. Grooves in the verses and chorus and following the solos in the solo section.
Yeah, it’s a formula that gets old fast.
And for this song…it’s not great. The lyrics and vocal melody are kinda amateur. Sorry, that’s the only way I know how to describe it.
It's like Room 137 got turned up...It's fantastic stuff....I have no idea what you, or anyone else, is expecting from this project.
Also...From the YouTube video...
"While listening to the chorus part of this song sometime in 2018, I heard word sounds in my mind and the word “drowning” fit it pretty well. I didn’t want to write about it literally though. I used a thesaurus and the internet to find related words and topics because my lyrics are never about personal events or stories.
Searching terms related to "drowning" eventually led me to the word “confusion.” That made me think of the confusion surrounding the findings of Quantum Mechanics. I found instances of physicists and mathematicians saying that the test results seemed strange and “wrong," and that they could not reconcile it with their view of reality. Some said there are things about it we cannot know, or maybe are not supposed to know. It seemed to me that spending too much time immersing oneself in it can make a person crazy. Einstein died confounded by it spending countless hours trying to recocile it with the reality he knew. The myriad of unfounded conjectures outside the physics community conjured up a comedy skit in my mind. The lines “Not Drowning” and “I will breathe” each relate to the hope of clearing away what is blurring the reality of something in all kinds of situations.
For a song lyric, I suspected that singing about physics wouldn’t be as fun as the idea of jumping in a saltwater pool. I needed a descriptive location for it. “Backyard” didn’t work, so I used the word “nation” because everyone lives in one. That word led me to “radiation,” as that’s what heats up a pool and has a cool sound to it when sung. Mainly, words come to me as sounds, then I search around and form something cohesive, but try not to sacrifice how the words sound.
I thought this might be interesting to know about. At the end of the day, however, it’s just a song for rocking out!
And then there's the simultaneous 7/8 in Common Time and a wild solo section for the Musos!"