Track By Track: Saltwater Sun on Flawed

Flawed EP

The EP as a body of work focuses on our experiences of human behaviour. The sensitivity involved with being creative often means you feel things a little more viscerally, so the EP is a response to the negative behaviours and emotions we've witnessed and a way to process those and move on from them. We wanted to write a cohesive set of songs with this EP, a set of songs that sound as though they belong together.

Hopefully you guys can all enjoy the songs as much as we enjoyed writing them!

Now Or Never

"Now or Never" encompasses themes of ruthlessness, judgmental people, and the kind of blind ambition that leads certain individuals to desecrate others in order to get what they want. It's a bite back against the people who judge what others create, without making anything of worth themselves. We wanted it to be a bit of a rousing 'get knotted' that people can sing along to.

Love Defeating

"Love Defeating" tackles the issue of the sort of toxic, all consuming love we've all experienced, particularly when we are young. The kind that can make you lose sight of yourself and what's fundamental to you. We felt it's something everyone can relate to and the lyrics are somewhat bleak so we juxtaposed them with some groovy guitar parts so nobody feels too bummed out...

Nova

"Nova" is a little instrumental slice of perspective within a very introspective and human body of work I guess. It's an audiological depiction of vastness and space to remind us all of our tiny place in the stratosphere. There are little nods to cosmology lyrically throughout the EP, and "Nova" ties it all together.

URWUR

"URWUR" was written about the way people represent themselves verses who they truly are, as well as the judgements we make about ourselves when comparing our less than perfect truths to these happy facades. It's somewhat of a critique of blind arrogance and showboating. Musically we think it reveals a different side to us than what we've shown before, which compliments with the overarching concept of the song.