Perpetual Emotion Machine
from Chain, Chain, Chain
2009
Originally, this song was entitled Squelch, because it was just percussion, no melody, and everything was distorted and down-rezzed — that was the purpose of doing it, and I intended for it to be an album track for The Unfortold. It ended up being combined with another song, purely melodic, that began as a piano chord progression. That song is one of those experiments where I started composing based on a title alone. ‘It’s a matter of degrees’ was honestly the answer I got when I asked a soon to be former girlfriend if she still loved me. Shitty answer, but a great song title.
The piano part got combined with Squelch at some point, and I had a nice dirty house track with a jazzy overtone. It’s another track of mine that I like a lot, but still feel is unfinished. I wanted more piano on it, but Archie who played on several of my other tracks wasn’t available. There are also lyrics to this which I never recorded and later lost. There is a possibility that a version of this may appear on a forthcoming collection, I keep coming back to it whenever I sit down to play.
A Matter Of Degrees
Perpetual Emotion Machine
Credits
written, produced and arranged by Perpetual Emotion Machine.