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"Hey there! Thanks for checking out Only Bodies. We hope you’ll go on a journey with our self-titled EP as it explores the difficulties that come with the emotional growing pains inherent to love. Our music aims to balance sincerity and honesty with thoughtfulness and tact. Also, to make you wiggle your booty." - Only Bodies
I wrote "don't speak" during a time when I was really struggling with my anxiety. I would run myself in circles about things that weren't all that big of a deal and it just took me out of it. I felt like my anxieties were keeping me from speaking or really conveying my feelings to people around me. So I decided to write a song about it. The entire chorus was freestyled and the rest I did write before recording but the song came really quickly.
"We‘ve recorded the album over the last year in our home studio. We‘ve done everything completely diy from songwriting and production to the design of the artwork and all the music videos for the singles. On the release day we'll have a release show for the record in our hometown St. Gallen."
"Once It's Over is probably the song that took me the longest to complete so far. I've been dealing with some anxiety issues and writing this has been a form of therapy for me to try and understand what was going on with me. The idea is that the vocals is what is going through my mind, while the uplifting bass and chorus is the happy image I portray." - Franco
While being seemingly minimalistic, "JIM BEAM" is a complex track. It constructs an atmospheric emotion of helplessness that is transmitted unto us with its harmonies, which transform with each passing moment of the track, uncovering their intensity. James Alynes masterfully delivers with his intense vocals. He also manages to introduce wordplay that gives the complexity of the music to the lyrics, and gives them a hint of metaphoric weight.
"Tønder is a town in southern Denmark. People in Europe specifically in Germany and surrounding countries go there to get married. Think kind of like Las Vegas but with less pizazz. It can be an adventure to travel there and when you get there you have to set up "residency" in the town before you can marry. So, it's a town full of stories of love and loss." Chip Pirrs
"Glad To Exist" plays with the musical layers to create an ever-expansive soundscape. Monroe Moon's creates an atmosphere in which we soon find ourselves immersed in. We feel as if we were in a busy street with each instrument representing everyone walking through it. We smoothly flow through the wave of people, finding a new emotion on each face, on each note and chord.
Mark Wink's newest release takes us to the world of future populated by humanoid bots. As they do their daily work duties with precision, the robots don't seem to have a soul anymore. Or do they?
"This Love" leaves behind all heavy feelings and dives into sunny soft guitar-driven melodies. It's an indie pop-folk song full of love and appreciation, a story of a supportive partner through the eyes of the artist and the dreams they wish to take on together.
'You're Mine' is a song about deception, suspicion and greed, and is prologue for the first single 'Port Henry', where everything seems to be lost. 'You're Mine' is also about the capacity to surrendering yourself in a relationship and how love can be lost in translation. Our next song is in the making and planned to see the light in October.