![]() ![]() I think Prince Daddy as a whole finds a lot of joy in trying to keep things unpredictable. ![]() The song is about those fears, and the disapproval I have for them. I felt very defeated by my ability to develop a pessimistic outlook towards something as promising and supposedly “beautiful” as the beginning of a life. There was something overwhelmingly dark and science fiction to me about a kid developing their first ever memories and emotions during these past few years. It was my first time being super involved in the beginning stages of that whole life thing. “Curly Q” was written in the midst of bugging out following the birth and growth of my little nephew. We tried to make cooler ones but each time we recorded the song, we just kept taking the recording of the solo recorded on the night it was written. So we just sent him in without writing anything and the first thing that happened is what you hear on the final version. I had this instrumental part I hadn’t written lyrics to yet at the end and he wanted to play with his new toy. The day I demoed this out by myself the first time, Cameron, our guitarist, showed up to my house having just got a whammy pedal. The solo at the end of this song survived over three incarnations of this song. I remember my guitar being so loud and fucked up that you could hear the kick drum through the pickups of the guitar and it sounded so gnarly. It’s about how, on some days and nights, feeling completely numb seems like the equivalent of achieving some sort of spiritual enlightenment, or at least the closest you will ever get to it. Unfortunately, sometimes being numb is the closest you get to peace or clarity. I don’t think a conclusion is ever really reached, rather just a stream of consciousness last ditch effort at making sense of things that make no sense. It is a crazy man's tangent, trying to convince himself that separating the inherit ugliness of consciousness from the genuine beauty of life as a concept is a feasible thing for an unhappy and unwell person to do. “El Dorado” is an attempt at adoring the sun regardless of despising its heat. I can 100% confirm this song was written less than 12 hours after a viewing of Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. We eventually made this alternate version that made it to the record and it quickly became one of the songs we were most excited about. This song was not meant for Prince Daddy at first but towards the end of writing the record, we realized how relevant the song was so we started jamming on it just for fun. The main riff in the intro and outro of this song were originally part of a song on an EP we never fully released called “Thrashville.” Also let's hear it for Scoops’ impeccable sleigh bell performance. Over time those thoughts would overlap and I guess I sort of came to a conclusion that the dark scary ugly evil tormenting character “the collector” or whatever I’ve been casually referring to is literally just the same dude that other people dedicate their whole life to making happy. It felt like “growing up”, but not in a productive way.Ī lot of whatever scary thoughts I had regarding mortality were closely followed by some sort of bitterness towards the concept of religion. The accident was the pivot towards another chapter of my life that realistically would have otherwise just been another lap in the same cycle. The accident was a pretty crucial moment for me as far as breaking out of whatever toxic cycle of mental deterioration I was writing about on Cosmic Thrill Seekers. It felt creatively exciting to me to give some closure to some of the things I was writing about on our last record Cosmic Thrill Seekers and to kind of develop some kind of relationship between the two records. An adult whose brain is capable of at least trying to grasp the fragility and impermanence of everything as small as a flower or as a big as the sun. It’s about the first run in with mortality you have as a critically thinking adult. But also on a more literal level, about a car accident we got in a few winters ago. A metaphorical one loosely following a character named “The Passenger” and his attempt at taking his own life. This one is kind of telling two stories with the same words. Im glad we managed to maintain their little spotlight even up until this version. I can confidently say these are my favorite lyrics I’ve ever written and they exist somewhat as a mission statement for the rest of the record. I just had a melody and the words written which I was really proud of and wanted an excuse to use my new toy so I just went for it without worrying about writing a drum part or adding a chorus or anything like that. ![]() The demo was just my Juno 6 and my voice manipulated by a Roland 404 sampler. This song was the very beginning of that. I bought a Juno 6 synthesizer at the beginning of the pandemic and fell DEEP into the synth hole the past few years. ![]()
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