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Postdata premieres “Gravity” at Under the Radar

Head over to Under the Radar to check out the official audio of Postdata’s single “Gravity.”

Their new LP Let’s Be Wilderness is out May 18th on Paper Bag Records.

It’s nice to see all the fraternization in music these days. Postdata is the new project from Wintersleep’s Paul Murphy, featuring Grant Hutchison and Andy Monaghan of Frightened Rabbit, and Simone Pace of Blonde Redhead. Their new LP Let’s Be Wilderness is out May 18 on Paper Bag Records and today Under the Radar is unveiling the premiere of the single “Gravity”.

A vacation in Europe found Murphy ringing up friends and former tour mates Grant and Andy and it was these meetings with old pals that birthed Let’s Be Wilderness. The cast was rounded out, bringing in Simone and Murphy’s Wintersleep bandmates Loel Campbell and Tim D’Eon. Murphy first released music with Postdata in 2010 with a self-titled debut and the new album is charged with the exciting alliance. Murphy offers a glimpse into how “Gravity” came to be, that’s like a mini journal entry of the process:

I have two approaches to lyrics: some songs are narrative and linear and others a bit more abstract. This falls into the latter category. I think the germ of the idea came after walking through a really busy street in New York and just feeling the smallness that comes along with that, or the vastness of it – the world being larger than me and beyond my control. It’s sort of scary and exhilarating at the same time.

This was one of the first songs I worked on for this record. I was also trying to get away from guitars in general for this project or at least trying to get away from guitars as a starting point. So I was working a lot in Garage Band and with IMPC.. recording a scratch vocal and sort of building things around that.

It was probably the most difficult song to track on the record. We did a version in Glasgow and it was neat and definitely had some useable stuff but it was maybe too heavy-handed. When we tried it a second time Simone really helped flesh out the rhythm and bring this to life with a lot of great percussion and just gave it a bit of chiller vibe. I was trying to sort of conjure something you’d hear on a Marvin Gaye record.

The main vocal was 95% live which I really enjoy when that happens. Tim threw in some organs and synths. Loel helped mix it. Felt like a big team effort. It’s funny when I think of it- this is probably the only song everyone involved in the record performed on in some way. It’s sort of the centerpiece of it.

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