Spicy Song Of The Week

Many times in the last few months, people have come to our house, and a curious thing might happen. You'll knock on the door (or just walk in if you know how things work around here) and take off your shoes, and stop. "What's that sound?" you say. They hear crashing sounds from the depths of our basement, bull in a china shop style. Josh in a candy store style. Josh anywhere style. But it's not Josh, since he is standing at the door along with you. So what's that curious, loud, obnoxious chaos echoing from the basement.

"Oh that's Darcy."

"Darcy...doing what?"

"Making music."

"That's making music?"

As the cymbals continue to crash.

Mhm. It's true. Darcy can spend up to six hours locked in the basement with the same recording gear we used for Faith In Shadows, recording track after track, layering them all. Over the last few months, he has created This week's Spicy Song Of The Week.

Sometimes, I'll be making food and I didn't even know he was home. Then he'll come running up the stairs, in grubby clothes, unshaven for weeks, and says "Josh, I'm about to make a ridiculous amount of noise." and I say "should I be quiet while you record?" and he turns and looks at me, eyes flickering back and forth as his synapses fire 5x faster than ours ever will. Halfway down the stairs again, he says darkly, "It won't make a difference." Minutes later, he's smashing cymbals like crazy. Once he came upstairs, stole a couch cushion, and retreated again. We never saw that cushion again.

But it was all worth it! I present to you a song that I'm not even sure how many hours it took to create, but it's pretty unique and complex. A six minute and 12 second epic song by a musical genius. For other work, check out our band, Walking Backwards. Be sure to let him know what you think :-)

Limited And/Yet Blind

Darcy Cordell