{"id":72794,"date":"2018-11-16T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=72794"},"modified":"2018-11-15T20:49:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:49:45","slug":"guest-blog-taking-on-karma-by-catch-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/guest-blog-taking-on-karma-by-catch-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog: ‘Taking On Karma’ by Catch Fire’s Ash Wain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past few years, we’ve been keeping an eye on\u00a0Catch Fire<\/strong>. Since forming, the Nottingham-based band have gradually grown away from their pop-punk roots to a sonically impressive alt-rock band with a deep, emotional core.<\/p>\n

Their debut album,\u00a0‘Karma Owes Me a Lifetime of Happiness’<\/em>, marks another leap in the quartet’s songwriting. Over the course of eleven songs, they question the notion of Karma with the effects of depression and mental wellbeing threaded throughout.<\/p>\n

In the latest instalment of our series of guest blogs, Catch Fire<\/strong> drummer Ash Wain discusses how the concept came together and how the concept of Karma served as the catalyst for ‘KOMALOH<\/em>”s\u00a0lyrical spine.<\/p>\n

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We wrote ‘Karma Owes Me a Lifetime of Happiness’<\/em> (KOMALOH) over the course of a year. Myself and Miles (Kent – vocals) got together near enough every day, commencing July 2017 (just a couple of months after we released ‘A Love That I Still Miss’<\/em>), and put pen to paper. At this point we weren\u2019t really writing for anything, we just wanted to see what we\u2019d come up with. It wasn\u2019t until Rude (Records) proposed a full-length opportunity months down the line, that we really got going. When they asked us if we wanted to do a full-length, we were a little bit apprehensive as to whether it would be worth it, as we\u2019re still very much a young band trying to establish ourselves, but then we thought and thought about it and just eventually reached a point and said: \u201cLet\u2019s just f*cking do it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I wanted to make sure it was something special, however. You only get one debut album, and I didn\u2019t want that thing to happen where we look back on it in years to come and be bored or dissatisfied with it. I wanted it to have longevity, and the only way to do that for me, was to make it personal and hefty. The subject matter had to be unique, and a little bit challenging. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make the record about, and I\u2019m glad the guys let me take the reins with the lyrics, as it allowed me to get a lot of stuff off my chest.<\/p>\n