Heavy Moss gives us another taste of Dead Slow, sharing the single "Treadmills." The track flows with a laid-back groove, blending keys and jazzy drums before unraveling with fuzzy guitar licks into six minutes of lush dream pop.
"This was a demo I had kicking around for a few years that I totally forgot about," Lucas Harwood recalls. "In those lockdown writing sessions I dug it up but I couldn’t work out the chords. I had to have my Jazz genius keys teacher James Bowers help me transcribe it. I think I wrote it when I was trying to write songs with too many fancy chords"
When I brought it to the band it didn’t immediately hit. But everyone just kept grinding, we looped the hard parts constantly and it finally started to bop. The verses and choruses are really juxtaposed against each other - the verses are an anxious stream of consciousness and is kind of jolty and angular. The chorus is in a different key and is meant to be a really pretty love song within the song. I owe one of the lyrics to my son Ari coined the line “I noticed your life” - what a genius. Lyrically I was also taking cues from one of my all time favourite songwriters, David Berman."
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