FAWM: "Endless Scroll"

Endless Scroll

3 weeks ago by @plushbaby

Liner Notes

#alternative

I think this is the earliest we’ve had a song up for many a FAWM. This year was mooted to be less production heavy and for us to take a more relaxed approach. To not be so precious about getting things right and allowing mistakes to happen and be left.

This song is a kind of halfway house, more production than we originally thought, but more instinctive than laboured over.
It began with tuning a guitar to open C. We rarely bother with alternative tunings and didn’t really use the tuning in this either as essentially only played one or two strings. It just made things more difficult really.

I think it’s about feeling a bit out of it in a nightclub - having all the feels all at once and being overwhelmed by them. But then also about the discombobulation of the infinite scroll and how that affects moods.

Lyrics

Still reeling from the side effects
I’m Reaching out for the wall
Feel the surface on my fingertips
Make my way down the hall

Do you feel the surface juddering
The faces invisible
As we travel through endless scroll
Beware of the four

All strangers are suspects
United by a common goal
They swarm like liquid
Escaping from a crystal bowl

Waves are crashing through the Perspex
Shards on the sticky floor
Saw your standing and begin to flex
Collapse into a ball

My heart is suffering
A heavy load
My heart is suffering
Alone

Lights are whispering into my eyes
A language without form
Mouths contort with excess energy
Into An ecstatic drawl

Can you feel your body hovering
Our souls invisible
As we find the endless puzzle piece
And melt into the all

My heart is suffering
The endless scroll
My heart is suffering
Alone

And wherever it goes
All the doors they are closed
So when will it stop
They told me but I forgot

My heart is suffering
A heavy load
My soul is suffering
Alone
My heart is suffering
The endless scroll
My soul is suffering
Alone

Comments

@wynia 3d

I like the kind of White Wedding meets Death Cab vibe here… could see myself belting it singing along. I know you feel it’s half baked but I really like the production. Great listen 💚

@tonyr 2w

I really enjoyed this.

@thedutchwidows 2w

Hello Plushbaby! Good to hear your tunes again. I've played this on a loop this morning while working, and it's got bags of charm. That big chunky reverb-laden guitar gives a nod to spaghetti westerns but reframes it in a contemporary, alternative context. I'm going to leave that sentence as it is, but it might be the most pretentious thing I've ever written, here or anywhere else. Enjoyed it. The song, not that sentence.

@axl 3w

Plushbaby! That's a nice surprise. I'm nodding along to the beautiful chorus. The guitar melody and the vocals work really well together. Has something of a western soundtrack. I love that drop C metal tinge, complete with Dave Lombardoesque ending.

@max 3w

Oh yes! You guys are early this year. Dancing in my studio, nightclubbing at home. Thank you so much for this early Plushbaby treat. Love it!

@n1742 3w

Great stereo effects and love that guitar sound. 2nd verse added bass and drums creates a good gradual build. It's made me want to take more advantage of stereo in my own song attempts. Listened to it a few times. great stuff.

@robertmyers 3w

Wow - that sure starts out bold! Nice!

So lush and anthemic. That reverbed synth in the chorus truly soars. Takes me right back to the best music from my 20s.

Charging right out of the starting gate. This was wonderfully invigorating. Can I just say I'm envious that you're on the side of "the pond" that gets to say "Perspex." Such a great word.

It's even better the second time thru on headphones. It makes me feel like I'm in a gritty Michael Mann film.

Reading the liner notes, afterwards, I can sympathize with the process of trying something different but then finding it causes some roadblocks: I got a bee in my bonnet to try some stacked 10cc "I'm Not In Love" style vocals with a song I was working on last month and it chewed up several days and ended in failure. However, the next day I went back to the project and lopped off all that mess and just wrapped up the track as quickly as possible and probably got something better in the end. But I suppose I never would've got to that solution if I hadn't taken the long path to get there.

@burrMod 3w

loving those stereophonic soundscapes, and the way the vocals interplay with the guitar line (despite alt tuning struggles?). definitely has a some dark nightclub kinda vibes, and all the little drum fill bits are icing!