"Again it comes around / It’s always sooner or later / Peeling back all the layers / When they come for the indigo..."
The emotional numerology and glistening ghost particles of "Multiphase" by Austin Texas multi-hyphenate musician Bayonne, aka Roger Sellers, absolutely puts you in a sort of dream state casting imagery of late night drives overlooking the mysterious myriad of lives surviving beneath the glow of breathing city lights. From the onset, the layers of synths and the beautifully constant rolling B to A piano notes that serves as sonic connective tissue seems to push memoric buttons in your brain. Sellers calming, chill, pretty vocal countenance soothes even though the core of the song is wrapped in loss.
Sellers shares:
“‘Multiphase’ came from a loop that I recorded on my phone from a Prophet synthesizer years ago. I always loved the melancholic, yet hopeful nature of it. It’s about processing grief and feeling overwhelmed with multiple things at once, while also finding solace and comfort with time. At its core, it’s about the heavy emotions that can come with being a human and trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel in times of anguish.”
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[The message of “Multiphase” was inspired by Roger's experience after seeing his mother grapple with his father's death a few years prior.
The line “Contemplate a message on the phone line” refers to a really strange, inexplicable voicemail his mother received on her landline weeks after his father passed, which played back a song he had recorded for her on Mother's Day when he was young. At the end of the day, Roger shares, “This song is mainly just a reflection on how much grief can affect our lives and finding comfort with time.”]
LYRICS
It’s always sooner or later
Peeling back all the layers
When they come for the indigo
I know the aftermath
And feel the struggle within it
Leave me alone for a minute
As I work for the audio
She won’t let it boil over
Meet me in the middle if it’s alright
We can isolate it in the meantime
Separated from each other
Comprehend a message on the phone line
Everything’s a feeling when you’re multiphased
I fail to see
But I know the world that we live in
Right back to the beginning
And I close my eyes as the rain falls down tonight
But when it all feels so unappealing
There might be and eloquent meaning
That we’re afraid to see the light
She won’t let it boil over
Contemplate your worries in the backseat
You can recreate it in a heartbeat
Separated, torn asunder
Quiet indication in its own right
Hidden undercover like a landmine
She won’t let it boil over
Fear of application has you tongue tied
Knowing that I miss you like the seaside
Separated from each other
Happiness is better in the sunlight
Better late than never when you’re multiphased
(Ooooo)
(Ooooo)
When you’re multiphased
Cut against grief and how to (possibly) navigate through it. "Multiphase" feels melancholy and freeing at the same time. It is hard to explain but it is what I am feeling. The track also stimulates thoughts, imagery, inspirations in filmic ways. I somehow keep thinking of late night drives of how moving through space in your car can feel therapeutic somehow.
Great track.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
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“Multiphase” is available on all streaming platforms here.
On February 26, Bayonne will embark on a handful of tour dates, including stops at Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco with electronic post-rock band Pinback, SXSW Music Festival in March, and a two-week run supporting experimental pop artist Kishi Bashi this Spring.
Since his 2016 debut album Primitives, Bayonne has channeled his vast imagination into an elegant yet wildly experimental form of electronic pop, equal parts meditative and mesmerizing. In the making of his latest body of work, the Austin-based artist/producer/multi-instrumentalist otherwise known as Roger Sellers found himself in even greater need of an outlet for his kinetic creative impulses, thanks to an intense convergence of events in his personal life: his father’s diagnosis with and eventual death from cancer, the end of a significant relationship, and an overwhelming struggle with depression and anxiety. Deeply informed by a deliberate transformation of his musical process, Bayonne’s third full-length Temporary Time ultimately makes for his most expansive work to date—an album of both painfully raw introspection and otherworldly beauty.
On February 26, Bayonne will embark on a handful of tour dates, including stops at Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco with electronic post-rock band Pinback, SXSW Music Festival in March, and a two-week run supporting experimental pop artist Kishi Bashi this Spring.
Since his 2016 debut album Primitives, Bayonne has channeled his vast imagination into an elegant yet wildly experimental form of electronic pop, equal parts meditative and mesmerizing. In the making of his latest body of work, the Austin-based artist/producer/multi-instrumentalist otherwise known as Roger Sellers found himself in even greater need of an outlet for his kinetic creative impulses, thanks to an intense convergence of events in his personal life: his father’s diagnosis with and eventual death from cancer, the end of a significant relationship, and an overwhelming struggle with depression and anxiety. Deeply informed by a deliberate transformation of his musical process, Bayonne’s third full-length Temporary Time ultimately makes for his most expansive work to date—an album of both painfully raw introspection and otherworldly beauty.
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