Will Cady's Ego

I added some music files to the page for you to listen to or download.  They are each songs from the last phase of The Help.  Before things fell apart, we were writing a pretty incredible album by my standards.  These recordings are the best of what I can give you to share where our music was going.

“Animals” (recorded September 2009)

This song was the medium through which we captured the dark emotions we were each feeling.  This entire recording is built off of a demo track from a room mic recording which is still in there, buried deep in the mix.  After Alex laid down a vocal track and did some synth work, I created a drum track and soundscape out of objects all around me.  If you listen closely, you can hear me banging on a desk, bouncing a basketball, scribbling on and tearing paper, and giving my best buddhist monk impression.  The overall effect of everything put together is jarring and captures the harmony and dissonance of what we were all feeling at that time.

“Radioactive” (recorded May 2009)

This is a room mic recording of us practicing the vocals for Radioactive, which was the first ‘single’ sounding song of the last batch.  This song was mainly written by Alex Gaynor and it’s some of his finest phonetic writing to date.  The challenge of this song was in getting the four part harmonies tight, which was the purpose of this practice.  Alex and I kick off the song with Greg and Mark coming in shortly after.  In the verses, Mark and Alex harmonize and then Greg and I rejoin for the choruses.  You can see a full-band live rendition of this in an earlier post.

“The Spider” (recorded December 2008)

I love this song.  We recorded this at Berklee for someone’s student project and we had a 4-hour session starting at 2 am.  I live for that and so does everyone else who was in that room with me.  Before we recorded this song, I was having an ongoing conversation with my girlfriend, Alyssa about a Red Hot Chili Peppers song we were covering at a lot of shows called ‘Aeroplane‘.  The bass line is nasty.  NASTY.  Alyssa challenged me to write “my Aeroplane”.  This would be that song.