Track 5: “Smudged Makeup”
Adapted, like “Dream Corridors,” from a poem by Oliver Baer. He writes dark poems, and this is one of the darker ones. For reasons understood only by us, we wrote two songs to the same poem, one fast, one slow. We played him the fast one first and he asked for something more depressing. Then we played this one and he nodded in approval. The fast one, which will probably be called something else, will eventually be posted here too. If Neil Young can do the same song twice on an album, why can’t we?
Matty’s orange distortion box isn’t working so well these days, which is one of the secrets of our sound here. Our dark, depressing hovel of a rehearsal space, where we recorded this one, is the other secret.
