Dancing Heals sophomore album You Will Never Be Younger Than You Are Now, is available from today Friday 5 July 2013 on Del Grango Records, distributed through MGM. Half of the album recored in Asheville North Carolina and the other half at Melbourne’s Sing Sing studios and mixed by Tony Espie, you understand why it sounds incredible!
Dancing Heals have be kind enough to give us a little track by track breakdown on each of the album tracks.
‘Raise The Dead’
The audacity and length of this song shows our growing confidence in our ideas. It’s a heavily layered, at times melancholic, but ultimately a dreamy six minute jam. Our friend Jamieson Moore from the band How Love lent us her vocal talents to bring in some ethereal moments in the bridge – DH
‘Something’
One of the first songs we wrote for the album last year. Thematically it represents being stuck and not knowing how to get out of a rut. Sonically it was our first step towards getting ‘space’ in the songs and let them breathe – JLF
‘Always On My Mind’
Love songs take up a lot of the DH catalogue and this is no different with quiet obsession reoccurring throughout. As Jarrad puts it, fresh nostalgia – JLF
‘Until The Next Time’
This song was one of the first ever songs we wrote, and it’s been reworked a bunch of times. It’s the remnants of the initial ‘alt-country/americana’ vibe we were going for. The band has evolved and moved away from that, but this song retained that timeless, rolling along rock n roll vibe for us, so we had to keep it. Plus we got to record this one in the small town of Asheville, North Carolina in a giant church come studio, straight to tape. It felt pretty good layering it up with old Wurlitzers and acoustics in there! You can hear the band locking in to a groovy throwback – JLF and JL
‘Point Of View’
The Strokes go to the rodeo. A love song with a fierce guitar solo and swamp rock bass and drums – JRL
‘Get Up’
Another early contender recorded in Asheville. We got to use their old SG’s and Les Pauls through ancient Vox AC30s for the solo – what a dream! An anthem to wake you up and get on with it – DH
‘I Don’t Feel It’
Going through the songs like this I feel the album is at many times quite melancholic/darker than I had imagined! Not that it’s a bad thing.. I think musically it’s often uplifting, but the lyrics keep it from being ‘pop’. This is one of the newer songs on the album that we recorded in Melbourne at Sing Sing. We spent time layering the guitars and keeping everything warm and ‘smooth’ – JLF
‘Underneath It All’
Kind of a Steve Miller Band vibe to this one, with an uplifting mantra, ‘in love and underneath it all we are the same’ – JL & JR
‘Laura’
One of the two ‘rock’ songs on the album, a pretty basic loud quiet dynamic. We wanted a song that comes in with a lead guitar lick, a la Oasis, Springsteen, etc. Lyrically, it’s about growing up and moving on – I feel like everyone is moving overseas these days- JLF
‘If You Need Me’
An uplifting fun rock n roll song. Distorted guitars, melodies, an overly simple guitar solo – it’s the bread and butter we grew up on in the 90’s. People often compared us to Teenage Fanclub when we first started, which we didn’t get, but I think this is definitely a nod to that early 90’s music – JLF
‘Know My Name’
This one came out unintentionally psychedelic – it might have been all those organs, ELKA keyboards, phaser pedals and Leslie speaker cabinets we were playing around with… Childhood dreams, psychedelia and triumph – JLF & JL
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