It’s crazy to think this album was a total accident! But that’s what it was. Back in late 2019 Tomppa had just joined the band and we’d sifted through about 30 songs I’d demoed, to choose around a dozen to…
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Sep 30 2022
Sep 30 2022
It’s crazy to think this album was a total accident! But that’s what it was. Back in late 2019 Tomppa had just joined the band and we’d sifted through about 30 songs I’d demoed, to choose around a dozen to…
Read moreApr 8 2022
I guess I wanted to create one version of ”the perfect album closer” with this track. Slow but steady build to a cathartic release of emotion and power and a quiet haunting outro. For some reason it reminds me of…
Read moreApr 7 2022
If yesterday I told you about the most painless and fast production experience with ”Plastic”, this song is the exact opposite. It took ages and ages to get right which probably isn’t much of a surprise either as it’s a…
Read moreApr 6 2022
This is the last song that I wrote for the album. I initially thought the power pop aspect to it was a bit much at first, but I hardly had to mix the whole thing – it just magically locked…
Read moreApr 5 2022
This song sounds the most like Rage Against the Machine on this record – if you only go by the lyrics. When you listen to the song musically it’s about as much removed from RATM as you could think. It’s…
Read moreApr 4 2022
Conversations with an Algorithm is actually what the album was meant to be called before I came up with the term ”botify” (only to later learn I wasn’t the first one at all). This is the second track on the…
Read moreApr 1 2022
This song is about burnout, plain and simple. The chorus has your colleagues wondering ”Oh, my word, but the boy is dead!” when you finally break down from exhaustion – while you probably could’ve used their help earlier as stated…
Read moreMar 31 2022
Sometimes you really don’t know which songs are going to be singles from an album – which songs are going to be the ones you use to tell people about the album, and which ones to make music videos of…
Read moreMar 30 2022
I never meant to write a whole album on the effect Big Tech and Big Data have on our lives. I just remember reading this article (Music Ally) in late 2020, getting up from my seat, taking deep breaths and…
Read moreFeb 25 2022
Our new single Scream Into The Void is out today. All its proceeds will go towards helping the children in the Ukraine. Sometimes releasing music seems suddenly insignificant due to world events around you. I wrestled with myself whether to…
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