- 2024-07-29
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MUSIC
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The Bedside Morale Releases Debut EP “Still Life”
Bristol-based indie-rock band The Bedside Morale, consisting of Tim Kazer (vocals/guitar), Charlie Dowzell (lead guitar), Kynan Scott (bass) and Aden Dennis (drums), released their debut EP “Still Life” on July 26, 2024.
The EP comprises a 4-track, which is snapshot in time of where the band were at creatively, at the beginning of their new musical journey, and produced by Josh Gallop at Stage 2 Studios in Bristol.
The band guitarist Charlie Dowzell said of the EP, “The lyrics are true to life and conversational in nature; We had a lot of fun exploring new themes and sounds for this EP and the reflection of honesty from within and love for our craft were the driving forces - it just so happened that the EP culminated in a freeze-frame of where we, as individuals and a collective, were at time of writing.”- Lead singer Tim Kazer added, “I'm trying to write more that matters to me, lyrics that I can deliver from my chest. For this EP I wanted to write songs that reflect life, or some aspect of it. Songs that are real and that are true to it. There's moments of love and of pain and it's all heartfelt. I think maybe I feel some sort of need to come back to authenticity and I can say, hand on whole heart, that every song here is authentically us.”
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The band explained about some tracks for the EP.
“Bitter Things”
“We've been really keen to try a call-and-response song, calling out with a hooky riff a la The Police or REM, and responding with a sultry and low-key verse section. The chorus came very naturally and Tim's vocal line is gorgeous. The outro section, which we created almost in the style of a live orchestra swelling to a crescendo, is magic and one of our favourite things we've written as a band.
Lyrically with this one we really wanted to draw on a more conversational style that a lot of our favourite musicians do so expertly. That expositional outline of the character of a man. This was the first time we've done any real character work in a song. That's not to say there's no real world grounding for this person but this man is more of a villain. He uses negativity as a way of manipulation, at some point in his life found that self pity got him what he wanted, and he'll sink to the absolute depths just to use someone for his own personal gain. So this one's for that guy. Or, in truth, the deeply insecure, messy reality of that man. We all see you and we all see what you're doing."
“Safeword”
“It reflects on the comfort but also the denial that people find hiding behind the rose tinted lense of their youth. We had so much fun putting this song together with our producer Josh Gallop and there are some really special moments which came out of the spontaneity of those sessions. This marks the first single for us as a band and we feel it showcases our intention and solidifies our style. Everyone should have a Safeword, here is ours.”
“Yours Sincerely”
“Lyrically Yours Sincerely was a really tough song to write. Kynan had come in with the song framework and that beautiful bass line. It felt sad and quiet to me, dejected I guess, and I knew what I wanted to write about I just had no idea how to do it. I think like a lot of people I dealt with the trauma I had faced by detaching myself from it. I stood in the rafters so to speak. I could say the words and tell people what happened but in some way I was pretending that wasn't me. But that's not what felt right for this song. I wanted the song to be in conversation with that person, a chance, albeit not face to face, to say all the things I never knew enough to. So I had to force myself to really feel it. I tried to not shy away from putting it to paper, or wrap it up in clever wordplay, which was hard because it meant accepting the reality of it and how little control I had. There are still some lines in this song that, if I spend too long focussing on, utterly break me. So that's Yours Sincerely. A song about trying to love, in spite of all the turmoil.”
Photo by GLKMedia - source : Apple Music
