Song Of The Week #53:STONE
📸Charlie Harris
Liverpudlians STONE are a raucous bunch that you need in your earglugs ASAP.
When I first came across them their energy coupled with the wordsmith musings of lead singer Fin Power hooked me at once. There is a relentlessness to their creations, they’re not writing music for anything other than themselves and like a brilliant Stephen King story you’re transported into their world and experiences seamlessly.
“STONE are Fin Power (vocals/guitar), Sarah Surrage (bass), Elliot Gill (lead guitar) and Alex Smith (drums). In true Gen Z fashion, STONE are a diffusion of the limitless cultures and subcultures they’ve had access to growing up in the digital age. Through their music, the band hope to capture the dizzying experience of youth culture in Liverpool and the paradox of their own young adulthood as they navigate the limbo between youth and maturity.” - The band to Undergroud England
Speaking to NME lead singer Fin Power said:
“‘Waste’ was written about being sick of people judging you without knowing anything about you. Opening lyric ‘you probably hate me’ refers to the fact that I started to find it easier to assume people disliked me from the outset, instead of being caught off-guard by negative energy.
The chorus is about how the need to be liked or loved can become an almost obsession that is dangerous to my mental health. The song’s middle 8 section is inspired by a time where I felt so distorted in my own brain it was like I was in a video game – sat in the passenger seat of my own emotions.
We produced the song with Al Groves (Bring Me The Horizon) and recorded the vocals in one take each time, running straight through the verses and choruses so that the anger and breathlessness was real and raw. We didn’t drown it in effects and the guitars were slightly under-tuned so that when I was raging my guitar, it would bend more into tuning (Al had a genius moment here).” - Fin Power
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Bring on the next steps and growth of STONE, this band massively excites me.
