Crywolf

DEMO - FALLOUT

Added 2025-03-07 17:00:21 +0000 UTC

Recorded on my MacBook’s built-in mic while crashing at a friend’s place on a break from LA, this one gives some interesting insight into my priorities when writing. For me, tracks never begin with nailing down the production. My initial writing doesn't even fully prioritize the final lyricism sometimes—just... the soul of them. Capturing the right emotional tone, melodies, and narrative progression to build the production and lyricism around is the most important thing for me. Production can always be built up, but a vocal that doesn’t carry the soul of the song is already dead before it begins.

Plus, once the production is built out, I find it hard to write a vocal part that truly does it justice. I do usually try to get a semi-final version of the lyricism itself done on the first day, but if I can’t quite pin it down for certain sections, I just shape the overall mouth movements to articulate the underlying emotion, as you can hear at 0:58.

Obviously the production doesn’t have anywhere near the sonic intensity of the final, but that didn’t matter, because it still nailed the spirit of the song itself. Once that specific color is pinned down, adding bite and oomph is easy. Even the delivery of the chorus is quite a bit more soulful than violent, but it gave me enough to work on later.