I think the liner notes on the digital release of the remixes EP circa 2018 sum most of it up, so to avoid duplication I am citing that below: download ‘Point of You‘ must have been written sometime in 2012, in a practice room in Greece at a time when we already had a few…
Category: Back on Track
Back on Track #6 ~ Evening on my Dark Hillside
When we set out to put our debut record together, we had a clear vision of what we wanted to achieve. We wanted to revisit a time when albums weren’t just collections of songs but journeys, each track offering something distinct yet contributing to a cohesive whole. Bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull,…
Back on Track #8 ~ Hypoxia
Hypoxia emerged on the back of sorting and working on the first lot of riffs I had written for Phase. I remember working on the song on two different occasions, once in 2004 with Chris Gioldasis and once later around 2006-2007 with Damos way before we ended up actually playing together, but either attempts were…
Back on Track #19 ~ Homeseek Dark Blues
It was well evident from our first record we had an affinity for your Harmonic Minors and Phrygian Dominant scales, and some background might be helpful for anyone to understand why that is. Alex (Arnaoutoglou) and Chris (Gioldasis) both have roots in Asia Minor, historic Ionia. Alex‘s last name derives from Ar·naut (ˈärˌnau̇t = Albanian)…
Back on Track #22 ~ He(a)lter Skelter
Even though the band has never really reached consensus on the role or place of a cover song in our setlists (let alone which covers to be doing), I’ve always firmly believed that covering other artists’ material gives first-time listeners a familiar reference point during a live performance and helps them identify where to place…
Back on Track #12 ~ Magical Thinking
The idea for Magical Thinking came about around 2010. I remember playing the opening riff along with bits and pieces of the lyrics in a hotel we stayed at in January 2011 and I can clearly recall I have been trying that out for longer, and certainly a good while before that time. Lyrically, the…
Back on Track #4 ~ The Smile
Can’t think of a better way to open an album other than a bit of good old William Blake, could you? I instantly fell in love with his body of work the moment I first encountered a painting of his, getting overwhelmingly humbled by his artistic industriousness, and naturally, I have since spent hours and…
Back on Track #15 ~ Sowing Scorn
Our glorious post-punk anthem Sowing Scorn was once described by Marios as “an anarchic lullaby”, a phrase we were rather impressed by. We all thoroughly enjoyed making this one, and I like to think of it as our equivalent of Not to Touch the Earth, or perhaps our I Wanna Be Your Dog. It came…
Back on Track #9 ~ A Void
A Void is one of the old songs that had been piling up for ages by the point In Consequence was to be recorded, having unlikely Bay Area thrash influences (more on that later) reminiscent of rebellious adolescence. Interestingly, there had been a point, when I tried to rewrite the lyrics in a lipogrammatic fashion…
Phase Back on Track #6 ~ Ibidem
Here’s another favourite of ours, and perhaps the most spiritual piece we’ve ever written. If there’s anything I take pride in, it’s having a good ear for music and a decent instinct as an artistic director. I still recall the exact moment I interrupted a conversation with Alex (Arnaoutoglou) during a ‘guitar strumming session’. Something…
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