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So, what is Hades Town?

Hades Town explores a place of no returning, a merging of the mythical underworld and one’s hometown. The song is inspired by my brother and I’s adolescence, with a significant age gap between us. I remember as a young child never understanding why he didn’t want to be home. I specifically remember one evening he was out of the house at night and did not return until past eleven o’clock, subsequently driving my mother mad.

At the time I wanted to say to him what I’ve written in the second verse “let me say, you’re allowed to stay” but unfortunately it seemed in my household once you reached teenage hood home became a hell as also referenced in the second verse, “he’ll yell to not go to hell”. By the age of sixteen I experienced the same displacement with home, never wanting to return there as suggested in the lyric “no home, I can’t roam”.

I spent many a nights and afternoons out of the house not telling my mother where I was, creating my own personal Hades Town, worlds far from home with hope of no returning. As signified in the lyric “light crimes, night rhymes” references the light crime of lying. “Night rhymes” suggests you are past the point of hearing nursery rhymes before bed, you only hear your Mum’s phone call wondering where you are, which you refuse to answer. When first hearing the instrumentation, it transported me to this time of adolescence. The band spoke of how the song alluded country music, thus inspiring a remembrance of what it is like to roam. As country music associates with green suburban land, this echoed the many fields that surround my house. The kind I would rush to after a home bound argument.

Hades Town is a place of escape, much like it’s mythical reference, the lyrics hope to capture the space and time that exists leaving a dreaded space, longing to create a home outside the walls of your house.

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Steph, our masterful lyricist, has put together some words to describe the meaning behind our debut single Again:

When first listening to the music I definitely felt a distinctively despondent atmosphere from the composition. I wanted the lyrics to reflect that mood, so I listened to the instrumentation and contemplated the feeling of dejection. Organically I began to write on the monotony of having to try again. Picking yourself back up to repeatedly approach what you have previously failed, due to motivation and the lack of choice in the matter.

This idea began to fit with the music quite well, for although the piece is moody it isn’t depressing. The chorus’s strong tone and pace which contrasts to the lighter slower versus for me emulates the juxtaposition when having to continually attack a failed attempt: you are frustrated but begrudgingly at peace.

Although the lyrical stimulus is the general notion of repeated failed accomplishment, something I’m sure we have all experienced on a small or grand scale, for me personally it resonates with grades. It may sound like I’ve lived a very small life writing on education, but repeatedly being someone who was always average academically was something I struggled with.

The lyric “stars hide your spires, let not hope, crumble desires” encapsulates the ethos of the song. Wanting stars to hide their aspirational spires so your hope isn’t crumpled when the ambitious desire isn’t reached. I would love it if this song would cast an empathic shadow to those who feel defeated.

I adore the idea of someone outraged and exasperated over something deflating for, what feelings like, the millionth time then immediately turning this song up to max volume through their earphones. Finding solace that someone else has to had to endure monotony. Hoping one day they won’t have to try Again.