Royal Canoe

Thanks for coming along with me everyone! This record is woven into the fabric of who I am. It's a real special one to me. Feel real grateful that other people have found connection with it too. 🩷🩷🩷 Good night!

I am so looking forward to playing this song live in November. Playing that wall of guitar and shouting "Don't you think about, think about it" with my brothers casts out any bad shit within.

The harmonized basses return!!! This ending is one of my most favourite things I have been a part of making. Sorry to gush again...cryin a little out here thinking about making this album with my friends...

Matt S plays a million things like a virtuosic madman all over this album. One of the most talented people I know. For real.

MP jumping the octave to scream "I had a chance, but I fucked it up" still gets me right in the damn guts every time.

7/8! Another experiment in trying to make something cool in a different time signature.

If I Had a House! Possibly one of the best songs we've all made together. A lot of different people's ideas and parts, all working together to make this weird, wild and cathartic song. Again...chasing that feeling...

I think there's always been some dissent about including this song on the album. But to me it is the perfect penultimate track...and a natural extension of Stemming and that sentiment. I also love building some tension before the finale...

They came back from dinner. Added this sweet overlaid beat. Matt sampled the word "Light" into his keyboard and played a solo with that word sample gettin pitched all over the place! At the end MJ and DA each played a drum solo and we put em on top of each other. Why not?

I thought it needed to land hard with sumthin weird. I think the guys went out for dinner or something. I looped MP's last lyric here "Make them hold on" and then randomly pasted a bunch of samples on a Protools grid till it sounded fucked up and cool!

I believe Matt sorta improvised something at the end here. He just kept the song going. It felt like it was leading to something.

Love just lockin into a groove here at the end. BB playing some really tasty bass guitar. MP going ham on the vocoder with passion!

TBH this song is about makin' out in the rain

I think I made the loop that started this one? Possible that the kick drum is from a Big Boi song. Derek pulling a DEEEEEEP groove once again.

Stemming! OK, I was saying to the guys the other day. I think this is my favourite ending trio of songs on any RC album.

We've played this song at least 1000 times by now. I still have a REALLY good time playing that ending.

The video for this song was one of the first things we ever put out there in this iteration of the band. Lotta buds helped make it happen. All the audio recorded live off the floor.

Found a guitar tone for this one, I still use ALL the time. Space Echo Delay + Big Muff Fuzz. Volume swell in with my guitar volume knob.

If you can't tell yet. My job in the band is usually to sing everything Matt P is singing an octave higher.