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Artist Picks: The Blood Arm

After the release of the critically acclaimed 2011 album Turn And Face Me, The Blood Arm return with their fourth album Infinite Nights on June 17th 2013 via RIP Ben Lee Records.

Keyboardist Dyan talks us through his favourite track of the release, "Bubblegum":



"Nathaniel and I moved to Berlin from Los Angeles in the winter of 2011. L.A. is warm and sunny pretty much year-round, so we were not at all prepared for the dark and bitterly cold German winter. After a few giddy snowball fights the novelty wore off and we retreated back to our respective bedrooms to wait out the winter months.

Since we couldn’t really do much else but sit inside and try to stay warm, we spent our days sending demos for the new album back and forth. “Bubblegum” came out of some of the darkest and coldest days - I think the song’s overwhelmingly sunny vibe came out of an escapist attempt to imagine away the winter.

We were both going stir crazy, and the song took on a bizarre life of its own. For starters, we convinced ourselves that a six-minute-long psychedelic pop song about bubblegum was a good idea in the first place. Then, our additions to the demo got weirder and weirder. How about a surreal spoken word intro? A mellotron and vocal interlude? A bongo solo?

When we went into the studio to properly record all of the songs we had written, our producer Simon urged us not to re-record “Bubblegum.” What you hear on the album is exactly what we recorded into our laptops in our bedrooms during our first winter here in Berlin. It is the only demo that wound up on Infinite Nights, and for that matter, the only demo we have ever put out on an official release."

“Bubblegum” will always have a special place in my heart because of how and when it was written. I’m very proud of it, and every time I hear the song it puts a smile on my face!"

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