#488
Via: Barvikha - Willie Woods
Tuesday 6th June, 2017
They say: "Willie Woods is a song about the perception of change as if it was sung to a past lover, the idea that you can change a situation you're in by moving away from it only to figure out that it's much more internal.
I wrote the song shortly after Christmas while I was in China, wrapped in a blanket in my ice box apartment, I was so down and fed up about things going on and I kinda felt like I was over feeling like that, which is extremely naive but I think that's cool to feel like that, it's a growing up thing.
I was listening to a lot of Mitski and Hop Along when I was writing this, they've got this childish almost uncertain style to their lyric writing that I loved, it really fit the ideas of someone coming to terms of a different perception of something fairly big.
Actually the sound of it came about while we were recording it, I figured out it would be good to rearrange it so it's almost one big build up, a chorus, a lull and then a bigger chorus. I just wanted to write a big sounding song that people would kinda go "woah, right on", I'm yet to hear that said about it however."
We say: "Building from a claustrophobic, existential introduction to a bombastic finish, Willie Woods sees Chris Leckey harnessing the ferocity he displayed in previous band - hardcore outfit PigsAsPeople - albeit in a sonically very different way.
The stripped back lyrics are delivered with an earnest intensity that commands attention, and rewards repeat listens.”
Via: Barvikha are set to release their debut EP 'Chengdu' on Saturday 17th June, in McHugh's Bar, Belfast. Support comes from Junk Drawer, Hand Models and Brash Isaac.
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