[Track By Track] Still Flyin – ‘Never Gonna Touch The Ground’

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Still Flyin’ release their debut album Never Gonna Touch The Ground through Moshi Moshi Records on the 6th April. The band recently just wowed SXSW, being named as one of the best bands at the festival according to Village Voice.

Still Flyin’ will be back for a UK tour and to play some festivals in summer.
Check out the videos for recent singles as follows:

‘Good Thing It’s A Ghost Town Around Here’

‘Forever Dudes’

We got Still Flyin’s Sean Rawls to give us a track-by-track run down of their debut album…

1. Never Gonna Touch The Ground
The doorbell rings and the first group of people has arrived at your party. They’ve got a twelver of brews with them and your buddy Ice cracks one and hands it to you before he even sets foot in your house. You’ve gotta put on some jamz QUICK! The boring haze of everyday life lingers for a few seconds but then everything becomes clear and you realize you are about to have a hammjamm with people that you love.

2. Following The Itinerary
A slew of people show up all at once and you are starting to feel your party high. Hugs and high-fives and fist-points to so many friends, a lot of which you wished you saw more often but are glad to be hanging out with tonight. Even your weird neighbor who stole your dog’s frisbee shows up, but you don’t worry about that trivial shit. This is life. This is living. You march right up to the dude, hand him a brew, and cheers him.

3. Forever Dudes
Your party high is quickly spreading to a party-wide party high. Everyone is feeling the love, smiling, laughing, telling stupid stories, and generally jamming life. People start tapping some toes, doing some head moves, some low-key arm whips. You know, nothing too fancy yet. You notice some of the high-fives seem to be timed with the beat of the music. Seems like a dance hammjamm is on the verge of breaking out.

4. Good Thing It’s A Ghost Town Around Here
Like wildfire, a dance hammjamm has broken out full-tilt! Everyone at the party has packed their way into the room with the stereo blasting. The lights are off and people are going all the way. Sweatjams. Elbows hitting people, brews getting spilled, people passing around a bottle of champagne – this is a real dance party. The floor is shaking. You think for a second about possibility of the floor caving in but quickly decide it doesn’t matter – it would only make the party more legendary. Being a good host, you head to the cooler and grab a twelver and squeeze back into the dance party room to replenish beers for dancers in need.

5. The Act Of Jamming
After the pure sweatjam of Ghost Town, some of the more out of shape people need to catch their breath. Some others need to step outside to cool off for sec. Even more need new brews. However, a lot of other people are frothing at the mouth for more dancing. An off-the-cuff goof-off jam starts. It’s funky, it’s got some rhythm. You look around and people are doing some stupid dances and laughing. This night is going good.

6. The Hott Chord Is Struck
People start returning to the dance room after their various breaks. The next tune come on and it’s sweatjam world again. You have to open the windows – shit is getting steamy in there. At the end of the song everyone starts chanting along with the record and stomping on the floor.

7. No Go-Kart Ideas
After the sweatjam, people pile out of the party room and spread out throughout the house and porch and yard. Everyone needs a break after that last one. You get into a funny conversation about all the crazy things you used to do as a kid, like the time you tied a rope above a trampoline and attached a bungee cord between your belt and the rope and jumped really high and in slow motion on the trampoline, until the bungee cord snapped and hit you in the back of the head and you had to get stitches.

8. Haunted Houses
The stories continue amongst friends and you guys make some crazy plan to go to explore the abandoned warehouse after the party’s over. Some people are too scared but it only makes you want to go even more.

9. Dead Memory Man
The first chord slams of the next song start and people start screaming and sprinting towards the dance party room. Some people are struck so hard by the jam bug that they don’t even try to get to the dance room and just start contorting right where they are in the kitchen or bathroom or street in front of the house. People are ready to get down after that two song breather and they take it all the way, pushing it further than they thought was inside of them. After the song’s breakdown people start crowd surfing. One wild dude licks the ceiling. Someone punches a hole in the wall. Some other stuff gets knocked over on accident. Brew and bottles are passed around the crowd liberally. Everyone is at their peak. You are so glad you had this party.

10. Ginkgo Biloba
The party is winding down and people start to say their goodbyes and head into the night. The last tune drained them of all their energy and the party is coming to a close. A soft jam puts a good capper on the night and everyone is thankful for the great party.

11. Aerosmith, Take Me To The Other Side
The next morning you wake up and even though you’re feeling pretty rough, you have warm feelings from the night before. You start cleaning up the house a little bit – picking up the beer cans mainly, and the post-party-reflection mood has you feeling so right that you want one last jam. You put on the last song of the record and it does the trick. With the long drone out ending, the house is clean and life is exactly what you want it to be.

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