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Everwater
By Joel Gartner
- Released
- Friday, February 24, 2017
- Studios
- Milk & Honey Studios and Spruce Park Studio and The Physics Lab
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"American Circus"
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"The Damage"
Track Listing
1 - American Circus
2 - Advertising On Police Cars
3 - The Damage
4 - Hold Me Back
5 - This Is The Way It Begins
6 - P.O.P.
I performed all the guitar, bass, drums and vocals on this album. I named it Everwater when I noticed the unintended recurring theme of water throughout most of the songs. To me, the influences of the music I was listening to during the writing process are instantly noticeable on each of the six songs: Plini, Matthew Good, Alter Bridge, Opeth, Skyharbor and Sevendust.
I approached the writing and recording process differently than on all of my previous work. Rather than prepare a group of songs to bring in to a studio to be recorded, I decided it was time to construct a makeshift studio of my own. This studio was able to follow me throughout several moves in southern Manitoba from 2011 to 2016. Once the recordings were completed I would send them to my cousin Ryan in Calgary, where he would mix, engineer and add piano and other instruments that to this day I still occasionally discover deep within the mix.
Lyrically, I offered a critique of the American political system (it's a joke), told the story of a community trying to fend off a natural disaster (it floods), described an individual crying out to their partner to save them from overwhelming odds (they do), told the story of a relationship stuck in a cycle of love and hate (it continues) and described an individual whose worsening pain drives them to continually seek relief through any means necessary (painkillers).