When we first started heavily writing for the new album, this was the first song. "Honesty was written early on in the process. I do think people can relate to it on so many different levels." I wouldn't view it as a religious song though, I think everyone should question religion, and find out what they truly believe. I try to illustrate my longing for belief, and the turbulent on and off relationship I've had with God. I wrote this song as a prayer, I have a very mixed up religious view and I've struggled to answer all the questions I have myself. It turned out as a part two for 'Work in Progress' in a way. The bridge was written really late in the recording and the little outro kind of came out of nowhere when Paul was messing around with the mix. The chorus only made sense to put some gang vocals on, something that we didn't use on War Paint. I liked how the verses kind of drudged along, and created a really cool flow. We jammed it live and I came up with some cool vibes. It honestly makes it harder for me when an idea isn't super fresh to work on. "Knives is a song that we had most of the instrumentation for about two years ago, but I hadn't written lyrics for it yet. I love the way everyone kills it together on this song, and I'm pumped with the way it turned out." Whether it be a vice, or a stage we get to stand on. Everyone has that thing that opens them up and makes them feel whole again. I wrote the song as my defence to the things that I choose to do in life, whether they be good or bad. It turned out to be such an unconventional song by us, but that’s what we loved about it as it draws from such different influences than normal. I freestyled the verses, and rewrote some of the words to it again later. We wrote the instrumentation to this song so naturally. "Drowning came from a straight up jamming moment. The thought of washing away who you once were, only to begin again." I wanted to show the idea of new beginnings, with imagery of water. The cities Cape Town and London were both places I visited with my wife, hence the name drops. The relationship really pulled me out of a dark time of my life, so there is a lot of hope in the song, yet still a dark cloak of loneliness. I paint the picture of what it feels like to miss someone you love so much. We spent a whole year on immigration before she could finally move out here. She's South African, yet was living in London at the time. I wrote it about my wife, and the time I spent apart from her after we got married. We later added a bridge to it in the studio, and it turned out to be a pretty solid ballad on the album. You can actually hear the demo on the deluxe iTunes version of the new album. I demo'd out the whole song in garageband months before we wrote and recorded the album. "Sins is probably the first finished song for this album. I know everyone can relate to the 'should I stay or should I go now' mentality that starts its plague around the age of 18. It was a pivotal moment for how we felt about the place we came from. We spent years in that basement literally growing up together, until she was in a horrible car accident one night, and passed away. Loriann was a very close friend to the band’s mother. The name Virden is the last name of my high school girlfriend, and her family who took good care of me. I don't know what it was, or who we thought we were, being from a public school ourselves but it was classic us. The funny thing about the reference to Catholic girls is Cody and I used to only go for private school girls at a certain point in life. I get really specific and personal in this song, because it came out of me that way. It's about growing up, growing apart, loss of innocence, and just that whirlwind that pulls you in and out of where you came from.
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I wrote the song about mine and Cody's home town of Ellicott City. So many lyrics came out of nowhere that I ended up keeping. By the end we had the whole song basically mapped out. Cody started playing the progression to this song, and I swear we played this one 3 or 4 times. I grabbed a microphone and I'd freestyle to different parts, trying to think of melodies. It was really late at night and we would just jam until 5am. "Catholic Girls came together super fast. So with all honesty in tact, here is my take on 'Golden Record': You can take words a million different ways, and that is the beauty of it, though I also think that people can benefit from hearing my own personal side of things. I believe that everyone should view songs with their own personal messages. I took some time out to give my perspective on the song meanings and backgrounds.
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We put every ounce of energy we had into this record. These are ten songs that mean the world to us. On August 05 we are releasing our new album 'Golden Record'. Vocalist AJ Perdomo talks us through the band’s third album, out now via Hopeless Records.