#224
Meltybrains? – New Don
Wednesday 16th December 2015
They say: "The first version of New Don was conceived in 2013 the night after a Hallowe'en party. I (Donnacha) had been on a mad night out and was determined to have something to show for my high time. In my garage hunched over a keyboard spewing my stream of thoughts onto a page. I guess I wanted to put my feelings into words ha ha - I'm deep like that. After that I messed around with the chords and kept things simple. One weekend we were writing songs with the band in an abandoned hotel in Swinford, Co. Mayo (thanks to Conor Walsh). I told the lads that I had an idea for a song and they all threw in their two cents and brought it to it's full potential. We were so lazy in naming the song that it was saved in the laptop as "New Don" which essentially stands for "New Donnacha". After playing the song live for a while we eventually entered into the studio with Dan Fox from Girl Band and laid it down. That's when the song grew it's beastly legs. To us the song feels quite normal, but the verbal reaction from people has generally included the adjective "weird". I suppose we've come to terms with our weirdness."
We say: "There’s something oddly distressing and slightly creepy about every note they create - as one might expect with a name like Meltybrains?. ‘New Don’ mashes wobbly synths, pleading vocal and cutesy xylophone. Unnerving stuff and it definitely shouldn’t work - in fact, on paper it’s nonsense. Yet you listen and are suddenly on board…."
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