Los Angeles, CA noise-rockers Thrill Touch are back on our speakers with a four song remix EP featuring their existential-crisis structured track ‘Hard Sell’
Riding on the flames of our destroyed world, LA noise-makers Thrill Touch haven’t abandoned their instruments for gas-masks and fallout shelters just yet. The trio’s latest four-song-doom-soundtrack features their single ‘Hard Sell’, it’s B-Side ‘Hard Cell’ and two remixes, one by Jesse Bond and one by HXXS. Touching on themes of existentialism due to not only the songs lyrical content, but it’s unorthodox writing process, Thrill Touch unleash the beautiful solid ground discovered through their experimentation
“It wasn’t meant to be, but it’s a song about gaining traction. The song was written by all of us over the course of a few minutes, each of us coming in at different times as we realized that something was happening: first the arpeggiator, then Michael, Jake, and finally Bianca. The song’s form hasn’t changed since it was played for the first time. Michael wrote the lyrics retroactively, and they revolve around this universal theme of frustration with being a self with no solid ground to stand on. It was originally about an existential crisis with no way out. But what we came to realize about the song is that as it progresses, it gains momentum and ultimately explodes into a really concrete thing, counter to the slipperiness that Michael’s talking about. The lyrics were written, maybe not with any of this stuff in mind, but we like to think that the marriage of the structure and the lyrics culminate in a moment of clarity: as the song builds and gains traction, and eventually bursts into something with running legs. It’s this sort of accidental reminder that existential crises can be tremendously painful, but that’s because they can be so circular, and ultimately these questions may not necessarily be answered, but they can be grounded in mobility & experience.”
