We did a cover of 'Who Let The Dogs Out' last year and the first version I did was WAY too heavy and sounded absolutely nothing like the original song. "The way this song came together is as weird as it gets… I almost don’t know if I should share it (haha). There is always a path to move forward and the only answer is to break camp." It’s definitely scary exiting your comfort zone but complacency is a crafty form of evil. So I wrote about how taking risks or leaps of faith is usually the only way to get out of that rut.
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We all go through times where we feel stuck and don’t know how to take the next step.
"The chorus instrumental felt really uplifting so I wanted the lyrics to match or even amplify that feeling. I think thats why the release into the first chorus is really satisfying as a listener.
The intro / first verse drum beat is definitely has an unconventional rhythm, instead of having a groove that settles in it keeps pushing and pushing. "When tracking the drums and doing some of the production it felt like the song was pulling us in more of a progressive rock / experimental direction so we tried to let it go there.
We would go on safaris in the morning and evening, so we had a lot of downtime in the middle of the day. I wrote most of the melodies and lyrics when we were out in a game reserve in South Africa for a few days. By the end of the tour I pretty much had the entire song structure laid out with singing melody ideas and maybe 50% of the lyrics written.
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From there I started programming the riff in Logic Pro on my laptop so I could start piecing together the entire song. "I wrote the intro guitar riff for 'The Leap' during a sound check on our tour European tour last fall. The inner battle between the two is something we all face and it’s our responsibility to win that battle at all costs." They suggest that at our core, all humans have a similar capacity for good and evil. They could seem really dark if read pessimistically, but if you dive deeper the meaning is more inspiring than assumed. "The lyrics are some of my favorites on the album. We were all really unsure about it at first because we were so used to hearing it the original way, but it was much more exciting than the first demo. "The first version of the song was much slower and calmer than what it is now, but later on in the writing process I decided to experiment with the chorus a little bit by switching the drum beat from half time to double time. Whenever I have an idea that I think could be cool for a song I record it right away, even if I just have to hum it into my phone - this way when I sit down at my computer to write a song I always have a starter idea to work with. I think I was walking through a grocery store at the time. The opening synth line was something that randomly popped in my head one day, so I recorded it acappella into the voice notes on my phone. "'Demons' was one of the first songs I started writing for 'Let Light Overcome'. Last week the lads in Our Last Night released their brand new album 'Let Light Overcome' - guitarist Matt Wentworth has taken us through all the details of the album track by track (and he's left out none of the nerdy details).
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