So my band, The Help recently moved into a new home where we set up a recording space in our “dining room”. We bought a spankin’ new microphone and one week into the new lease year, we’ve got a demo on our hands! It feels great because we’ve been writing for the better part of a year and not producing recordings at all really.
During that time, we were on a semi-regular show schedule that was just periodic enough that we kept performing our old material. It was pretty frustrating to be hitting the stage with old songs while we were expanding our musical minds, identities and what-have-you off the stage. It began to feel like we were misrepresenting ourselves every night we played. So now that we’ve moved into this new home, we’ve used it as a catalyst to get on the recording aspect and through that, begin to share where we are as people and musicians.
This song, ‘Animals’ has a lot of meaning for me personally as I feel it captures the frustration and isolation we all began to feel independently and collectively. There were times when I really was not sure if The Help was going to make it through the dark period and I know I’m not the only one in the band who felt that way. The fact that we’ve gotten to the other side and we’re releasing material again is a HUGE sigh of relief for me. By all means, let me know what you think!
Listen to and download our new song ‘Animals’ at the following link:
Nice tone, good composition, reminiscent of The Moody Blues – good job