"Split me right from the start"
The psyche pop / indie rock threesome Stray Fossa based out of Charlottesville, Virginia stir things up on For What Was. Michelangelo said that sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. That is to say, with sculpture, the artist's task is to remove everything that is in the way of the art. Sometime producing a song, especially one with a lot going on is the same thing. I have a sense that Stray Fossa took a similar approach here as press notes reveal:
The band describes the making of "For What Was" as a burst of creative energy that all came out at once. Will came up with the lyrics and melody for the chorus “something I could be the first to know…” etc. in one breath. “Normally, we wouldn’t hold onto scratch lyrics, but it’s hard to shy away from rare moments like that when it all kind of comes together at once.” In the verse transitions you can hear the sound of bicycle spokes that were recorded with a phone.
The final track then was a gradual process of chipping away at and reshaping the song’s many different parts until the piece bopped and bounced to perfection.
"Now you’re dulling it down
With every vain attempt to relate
As every match holds a fire
In all the histories burnt out of place"
The track feels like an amalgam of indie pop with neosoul rhythms and a sense of progressive psyche rock gluing it all together. The hushed vox crooning trippy askew poetry and the jamminess turns in on itself before fading out. Cool. Michelangelo would approve.
Stray Fossa is Will Evans (vocals, drums, percussion, synths),
Zach Blount (vocals, bass, synths) and Nick Evans (vocals, guitars, synths).
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Dream pop and indie rock from Charlottesville, VA
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