We have the laziest prime minister in the world - everything in this song is 110 percent factual.

So, I actually started this tune in June last year - the basic musical bones, anyway - and completely forgot it existed until a few weeks ago when I was going through all my byzantine folders and snippets to see what I had to work with this FAWM, and came across this bizarrely upbeat (for me) rock'n'roll tune.

Gave it some love the past couple of days, including writing FAR TOO MANY WORDS (goddamn, I just want to cut and paste the chorus vocals but I've written three entirely different variations?! you've got to be kidding me), juicing up the DI guitars and the mix and making it kind of dirty, and - here's the killer feature - actually playing the bass rather than just using the programming. That violin bass absolutely monsters anything in its path, Paul McCartney knew what he was doing, eh? Gives the recording a kind of messy vibe, so to match I went with the 'Underground' EZX drumkit to add to that tumbling, almost falling-over-itself feel, which is tricky to pull off when you're programming drums.

Rough vocal again - it's too many damn words and my voice wasn't agreeing with those high notes, so it is what it is. I gotta record the guitars properly one day and add some more handclaps and shit.

I also mixed the vocal slightly louder than I normally would. That was a mistake, but ah well.

Pretty stoked with the song though - to think, I'd forgotten it even existed! On a roll now.

#punk #poppunk #indie #grunge #newwave #political #powerpop

Gear: Drums: SD3/EZD 'Underground' Bass: Epiphone violin bass via Guitar Rig 7 Guitars: Karina LP copy into Helix Native (processed to get sounding close to my actual Orange amp) Keys: Jup-8000, UA Minimoog Vocals: Shure Beta 58a mic, Ovox, Replika, H-delay

And plenty of processing plugins! Love the Abbey Road and UA stuff.

Feel free to download. For my proper, finished stuff: koshrecords.ne

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