It all started an evening I was hanging out with the Saint in his parents’ basement where we used to play when I told him about an idea I’d been having for a while; writing a Birthday Song that would be introspective rather than celebratory, and he instantly came up with that beautiful chord progression, and we finished the main structure on that one sitting.

Recording the song was a bit unconventional to say the least, as it took us about 20 minutes to actually track the song and easily more than an hour in lighting up candles and blowing those out, applauding, cheering, and chanting, a process which went overall terribly wrong (including me ruining a coffee table, something I still feel bad about), hence the effects in the intro.

Damos, took it on him to arrange some pianos and strings, as well as to lay down some extremely interesting bass lines like he always has done, and there you have Birthday Song! The last track on our second album, that made its way to the Wait even if it wasn’t our original intention for that to be included.

Thanos