This is unlike any other song on the album because it is almost entirely programmatic. I was thinking about how certain book/television series follow the same patterns over and over in terms of plot and that is how the achieve success. I have a giant collection of hardy boys books at home so I decided to test out this idea. Turns out that throughout all the books almost every chapter was the exact same amount of pages and had quotes and illustrations in almost the exact same places. So I took the first chapter of “What Happened at Midnight” mapped out the plot, and tried to create a musical landscape that reflected the action and emotions.
Described as “an ecological history of humanity,” this sparse, tense suite of songs perfectly balances melody and chaos. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2018