Drowning is our oldest surviving song.  It was on a CD of ideas I mailed to the guys before we were a band and it was the second of our songs that Hugh learned on bass.  I remember he and I played it at a coffee house and I broke a string.  I was probably playing inappropriately hard for the setting (although I think that it impressed Steve who was in the audience).  The song has changed a bit – we’ve stripped it right down and substituted lyrics here and there – but it’s mostly the same as when we played it at our very first show.
 
The version on this album actually uses a couple tracks from our independent recordings.  Both guitars were recorded in Hugh’s parent’s house and the cello we recorded guerilla style at Queen’s University in Kingston.  We basically put together a portable recording studio and snuck into the Sutherland Room, a large, old, wood-lined room in the University Center.  We did eventually get kicked out – just as we finished recording for this song!
 
Oh, and that thing you can hear in the background that sounds like a super-gigantic metallic sonar or something, it’s actually a pen being tapped on a plate.  But that’s a different story altogether.

[Listen to Drowning]

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