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Fresh from making a huge impact at this past weekends Slam Dunk Festival<\/b>, St. Albans’ Trash Boat<\/b> are on a wave of momentum right now. Their appearance at the festival topped off a fantastic week for the young pop punks as they released their new EP, ‘Brainwork’<\/i> last Monday through Hopeless Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The EP is a solid collection of hard-hitting pop punk songs that demands to played on repeat. However to give us a better understanding of what the EP is all about, vocalist Tobi Duncan talked us through ‘Brainwork’<\/i>. He explains how the EP came together and what the EP is lyrically about.<\/p>\n

About ‘Brainwork’<\/i>:<\/b>
\nCompared to our debut release \u2018Look Alive\u2019<\/i> we actually wrote this EP fairly quickly. Our first EP was still fresh in our minds and we felt this was going to be a solid continuation of something we were pretty happy with and had received a really good response from so far.<\/p>\n

Sound wise we were really going for that chunk, as if a hardcore band had just done a pop punk album, I\u2019m stoked on the tone, I mean\u2026listen to ‘Taylor’<\/i>, that intro is phat as.<\/p>\n

Taylor<\/b>
‘Taylor’<\/i> was the first part of a longer song that I was writing lyrics for. When I laid down demo vocals over the riff we were trying out, it sounded huge and we were really pleased, we decided to keep it short as it was a perfect introduction to ‘Brainwork’<\/i>, as it builds up the energy nicely.<\/p>\n

It was the first song we heard with all the instruments recorded in the studio and it got us really excited as we\u2019d been listening to our scratchy bedroom demos for so long. The difference was awesome and it really bought the tracks to life.<\/p>\n

The lyrics are a reference to a certain group of medical “professionals” who continuously let me down over the years, I will be writing more songs on this topic in the future, but for now it\u2019s just this snippet.<\/p>\n

Saving Face<\/b>
\nI was torn as to whether I liked ‘Saving Face’<\/i> at first, but it has grown on me to the point where it is nearly my favourite track! It was originally going to be in the same key as \u2018Perspective\u2019<\/i> (I was suggesting this) but I\u2019m so glad we kept it lower as it\u2019s in a far more comfortable register live!<\/p>\n

I try to make an effort to not ramble on about relationships, as its way too clich\u00e9 and the topic doesn\u2019t really hold enough significance to me to write multiple songs about, and that\u2019s kind of what ‘Saving Face’<\/i> is about: my general apathy towards relationships, my inability to voice my anxieties about them and how it has affected each subsequent relationship as they randomly appear in my life.<\/p>\n

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Perspective<\/b>
‘Perspective’<\/i> (lyrically) is probably the most emotive track on the EP andit took the longest to write as it was chopped and changed a lot. It was the last song we did and the studio was fast approaching. We were spending hours every day trying to get it right and we were close to being sick of, even on the way to the studio! Once we heard it recorded properly and started tracking vocals though we knew the hard work had paid off. Banger!<\/p>\n

The lyrics cover a specific day a few years back where I was woken from what was supposed to be routine joint surgery to having a group of doctors around me with varying sombre looks on their faces, along with my parents who had already been told the shitty news that I wasn\u2019t going to be getting better anytime soon. It was pretty tough, it exposed me to emotional aspects of myself and my parents that I had never seen before. It was pretty overwhelming being confronted with it all at once, whilst coming to terms with the fact that I just had to deal with it. Lucky for me though I have some pretty awesome friends and family who were all there to help me slap a fat smiley face sticker on the whole situation!<\/p>\n

As Seen On Screen<\/b>
‘As Seen On Screen’<\/i> is probably my favourite instrumentally, it\u2019s got some real fucking bounce to it and is so much fun to jam live. That song just fell together like it was written for us, barely altered, it was pretty much there in the first draft.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want this song to be another sad jam so the lyrics aren\u2019t as brutally emotional as the rest of them, so it keeps up the pace of being honest and aggressive in some respects, but it\u2019s much less personal. From the age of 15 I\u2019ve been drifting from one mind numbing job to another, under the guise of finding a career as that seemed to be the thing to do. I felt I was too young to pursue higher education, along with the maturity it required, so I held off on going to uni and got a job. I know in some respects it can seem as though I\u2019m coming off as ungrateful, I was always appreciative of the fact I had steady work, but I was always considering the fact that I could be doing shit like this for the majority of my life and that thought scared the shit out of me! So I saved up enough to support myself while doing band stuff and wrote a fucking song about it, chasin\u2019 the dream.<\/p>\n

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Eleven<\/b>
‘Eleven’<\/i> is my favourite tune overall, the energy is through the roof and that\u2019s what I\u2019m all about, getting a room full of people to kick off and throw themselves off stuff into stuff, expect the energy to continue to rise in our future records.<\/p>\n

Again, this was a tune that really fell together, only some swapping of the structure closer to the studio. The lyrics to this song poured out, it was tough picking the right ones as I have a bunch more that will be the topic of some tunes in the future, they mean a great deal to me, but I\u2019m afraid their content can\u2019t be explained as I don\u2019t feel it is my place.<\/p>\n

July (with Blood Youth)
\nFri 10th Satan\u2019s Hollow, Manchester
\nSat 11th Classic Grand Lounge, Glasgow
\nSun 12th The Mash House*, Edinburgh
\nTue 14th Marrs Bar, Worcester
\nWed 15th Live Rooms, Chester
\nThu 16th Clwb Ifor Bach (downstairs), Cardiff
\nFri 17th Shield Festival (The Scene), Swansea
\nSat 18th The Red Room, Nottingham
\nMon 20th The Forum, Tunbridge Wells
\nWed 22nd The Exchange, Bristol
\nThu 23rd Joiners, Southampton
\nFri 24th Met Lounge, Peterborough
\nSat 25th Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton
\n(*Blood Youth only)<\/p>\n

‘Brainwork’<\/i> EP by Trash Boat<\/b> is out now on Hopeless Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Trash Boat<\/b> links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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