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around like, ’What do we do with this? This sounded really cool and I’m glad it made the
or Halestorm, when they were in the stu- needs a certain type of groove. We don’t know record.”
Fdio this time around, the first ‘moment’ what it is, it’s not right yet.’ Some songs just take
happened with what would be the album’s lead months or years to hash out. Same with ‘The Si- he song ‘Heart of Novocaine’ includes
single, ‘Uncomfortable’. According to Joe, “Un- lence’, I wrote that music and melody five years Tthe lyrics, ‘Now I am strong where I was
comfortable’ was one of the first songs the band ago but Lzzy and I would try stuff or she would weak and I’m unafraid of being me’. The very
all jammed out together and thought, ‘OK, try something that we knew wasn’t quite right, first time Black Velvet interviewed Lzzy, 8 years
there’s something good there - we got this, we so we’d throw it away and forget about it for a ago, she said about herself, “Sometimes I have
can do it!’” year and try again. This time it finally worked a tendency to be too nice, even when it’s time
The songs didn’t always come as easy once out. Then you can get a song like ‘Heart Of to stand up for myself”. At the time, Lzzy said
that ball was rolling though. In fact, some of the Novocaine’ which Lzzy wrote on the piano one that by writing empowering songs she was be-
songs found on ‘Vicious’ are years in the mak- night after the studio, came in the next day and ginning to find confidence and, in turn, the songs
ing. Joe fills us in, “Songs like ‘Buzz’ and ‘Killing showed Nick; he’s like, ‘Cool, let’s do it. Instead were inspiring her to stand up for herself. We
Ourselves To Live’, Lzzy and I wrote some of of piano let’s use an acoustic.’ We just started ask Joe whether he has ever overcome what he
those lyrics and melodies when we were in Aus- building and by the end of the day we had totally may consider to be a weakness in himself and
tralia three years ago. They’ve been bouncing re-envisioned the song and the music. It turn it into a strength.

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