It's very rare for us to put up a band twice in a year for 'Track of the week', but once again it's happened again, and once again it's Moats' new track! "Gas" is the latest offering from the Biggleswade four-piece - currently residing in and around Leeds and Liverpool. They've just completed a weeks long tour around Belgium and upon their return they uploaded "Gas", a song that they write and recorded in the country!
Last time the band returned to the UK from a jaunt in Belgium they uploaded a very delicate track nicknamed "Machelen aan de Leie" or as James from the band calls it "I Do". Now about "Gas", that's why were all here right! It's got some dirty guitars in the beginning of the track with some echoing vocals entering to give you a very chilled vibe. Matt's vocals have grown over time and this song definitely shows them at it's best, a very simplistic song in regards to the instrumentation going on, I believe it's the one guitar with pedals and Matt's vocals. Last time they recorded a track with just guitars and vocals it was "Dry", and that turned out amazing when I saw it live. "Gas" is - as always - a step in the right direction for the band, just showing off their talent in such a great way. Be sure to hear more from the band soon!
Speaking about "Gas" Matt said
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Last time the band returned to the UK from a jaunt in Belgium they uploaded a very delicate track nicknamed "Machelen aan de Leie" or as James from the band calls it "I Do". Now about "Gas", that's why were all here right! It's got some dirty guitars in the beginning of the track with some echoing vocals entering to give you a very chilled vibe. Matt's vocals have grown over time and this song definitely shows them at it's best, a very simplistic song in regards to the instrumentation going on, I believe it's the one guitar with pedals and Matt's vocals. Last time they recorded a track with just guitars and vocals it was "Dry", and that turned out amazing when I saw it live. "Gas" is - as always - a step in the right direction for the band, just showing off their talent in such a great way. Be sure to hear more from the band soon!
Speaking about "Gas" Matt said
"We actually got given a free recording session where we recorded the radio show. It was done last minute in terms of recording with just an SM57 microphone on the guitar amp with an SM58 microphone on vocals. With the actual recording of the tune I wanted to keep the production very stripped back with just guitar and vocals being recorded. In terms of the mix and master that was done by will Elliot (our bassist) and a helping hand from me. I sampled a part of the vocal take and put a fancy reversed reverb plug in on it and turned the dry signal down so it gave it an early effect. I also used the same sample and put a delay plug in on it further on in the track. Will did the rest of the mix (distortion on vox, reverb on vox.) the guitar mix was quite untouched I think as the amplifier I used (can't remember the name of it as I borrowed it off a friend in Belgium and was quite an obscure brand) had a lovely distortion sound to it as well as a great reverb, it was just a combo amp but I was really happy with the tone it created as well. In terms of the song-writing I wanted to write a song with a very heavy distorted rhythm guitar but have a vocal melody that was very eery and beautiful in some sense, clashing the two together so to speak. The lyrics are actually about a house party in Leeds and how . It's called gas because of the amount of laughing gas balloons people do there and about how I used to enjoy doing them too but now do not like the idea of it ("I've had my laughs but I've had my last") I also mention about a boy who fell through 2 flights of stairs at a house party in Leeds I was at and it caused a massive commotion."Follow / [FACEBOOK]
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