Today’s song is “Demons” by Swell Spells. The Bakersfield, California group came together in 2017 and is comprised of Patrick Sena, Logan Archer, and Jarrett Alarcon.
Wanting more than their small town lives they busted out their Oh Sees and Wavves records and studied hard, bought new instruments, and set up a makeshift recording studio in Patrick’s living room.
They recorded the songs live and spent months overdubbing and tinkering with different hooks, guitar tones, and mixes. Once it was all finished, they decided to name it Tell Your Friends You Love Them to represent the bond that they shared as those friends they will keep for life.
This track is a song about anxiety and its desperate, uncontrollable nature. The bassist Jarrett Alarcon wrote the melody in the chorus and came up with a really tight bass line to boot. The rest of it was written by Sena with a little help from Logan in the guitar department. They describe it as having “…a really tight, consistent structure that moves quickly, wasting no time to jump from one idea to the next.”
We like the raw raucousness of the song. It is a fun, fast paced track that any garage rockers would be proud to call their own.
Listen below and for more information check out their Facebook page.