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about
Loud is a song to those that stay quiet in the face of injustice, the white moderate, who interprets anger as violence instead of pain. It’s a call to stand up, lend our voices and our hands, to come alongside those that are hurting, and to work for real change instead of just sitting on the fence.
The song began on a solo writing retreat I took in Woodstock, NY. When I arrived at the cabin where I was staying I realized my guitar had cracked and sounded terrible! It was a day or two before the shop would open for the repair, so I created a little four-chord loop and beat on my phone and played it until this melody worked its way out. The first words that came out were, “I want to hear you getting loud,” and they shook me as I thought back to all the times that hadn’t been true for me, in relationships, in protests, in movements, in my own voice. The more I sang it, the more it became something I wanted to claim for myself, and expanded into thoughts on justice. I returned home with this little iPhone demo and the band really grabbed onto the message with the arrangement, letting the verses be light and airy, suddenly stopped by a wall of sound.
The full band arrangement came together over the course of a few rehearsals in Winston-Salem, NC. I wanted the verses to feel spacious, and Sarah brought in that droning synth. Originally, the drums were pretty driving in that space, but we kept cutting pieces away until they were simple. After playing through the bridge, Linhart suggested we sing the, “if you really want me, want me completely” two more times, and I remember running it that way for the first time and tearing up because it felt so much more desperate that way, and reminded me how many times I really loved one side of people - the quiet, cooperative side, and not fully allowed people to take up the space they deserve to take up.
lyrics
Holdin’ my breath for a while
Until an end is apparent
Been pressin’ my lips to a smile
Just try and grin and bare it
‘Cuz everytime that they open up you can see that
I’ve got a fury that I cannot control yet
I’m not sure how much longer I can just sit in silence
I wanna hear you getting loud
Capsize me with the sound
Why don’t you open up your mouth?
Come and shake me down to the ground
Cuz’ sometimes it takes a raging river
To make the dam come crashing down
I wanna hear you getting loud, loud, loud
Traded my voice for a hope that things would just change without me
Then every single time that I spoke the words would just be, ‘I’m sorry’
And then I would get buried under others’ options
And have to rearrange my life just fit them
I want to sing
Want to sing
To sing the melody
I wanna hear you getting loud
Capsize me with the sound
Why don’t you open up your mouth
Come and shake me down to the ground
Cuz’ sometimes it takes a raging river
To make the damn come crashing down
I wanna hear you getting loud, loud, loud
If you really want me
Want me completely (x3)
Not sure how much longer I can keep it down
I wanna hear you getting loud
Capsize me with the sound
Why don’t you open up your mouth?
Come and shake me down to the ground
Cuz’ sometimes it takes a raging river
To make the dam come crashing down
I wanna hear you getting loud, loud, loud (x4)
credits
released June 25, 2021
UPC: 859747368108
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Richard David Wimbish, IPI #765180527
Recorded + Mixed at: Rogue Blue Media, High Point, NC by Stephen Price
this album is so so so beautiful and i have been listening on repeat, the parallels between "no angels" and "smile" are amazing and every instrumental section is incredible eulalie
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