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"Ear Down to the Water" is the murder mystery that turns on you in the end. Musically it was designed around a guitar riff. The verses are meant to be sweet and haunting, maybe a little detached. Intermittent guitars pulse in the verses, leading you into an unexpected ruthlessness in the chorus. The choruses explode and seem almost nonsensical, like a mantra, the more you repeat it the more it makes sense. The drums are live with electronic beats added, a very "industrial" feel with a repetitious three note bass line which gives the song a bouncy, infectious feel. |
Credits: Artwork by Dave McArthur: Neurosis@uswest.net. Mixed and mastered by Blair Sutherland. Produced by Blair Sutherland and Cuk: www.counterpointstudios.com |
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"Jessica" is an ode to the white trash mutha in all of us. There are some "ghetto samples" over the accoustic verses to bring the white trash outta the mutha. When the atomic guitars kick in its all about pure emotion. The c-part is the conscience, the soul of the song, an ontological discourse. "Jessica" started out as a strumming "camp fire tune" tune. Its catchy melody insures it will be heard for generations at boy scout and summer camp sing alongs. |
Credits: Artwork by Dave McArthur: www.Neurosis@uswest.net. Mixed and mastered by Blair Sutherland. Produced by Blair Sutherland and Cuk: www.counterpointstudios.com |
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"Mother Mary" on the surface is about a woman who has lost everything. She is a metaphor for failure. But in all her experience she has found a profound devotion to Mother Mary and a divine grace which tells her that her experience is transient, a lila or divine play in human form, that she is somehow transfigured in her suffering and it's not all meaningless. Or maybe she's just fucking crazy. The opening guitar riff is the driving force that moves her through her experience into something that releases her from the moment. In the end even her devotion can't jar her from her old habits and she remains frozen in her misery. Maybe the materialist atheist in you responds: "That ho is on some serious crack." |
Credits: Artwork by Dave McArthur: Neurosis@uswest.net. Mixed and mastered by Blair Sutherland. Produced by Blair Sutherland and Cuk: www.counterpointstudios.com |
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