Laveda - Rager (Official Lyric Video)
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Video by Derick Noetzel
LYRICS
Wasting time
Going nowhere
In my mind
I’m alright
To get by
On the way down
Glorified suicide
Now it’s on fire
There’s nowhere left to wander
Soon everyone dies
We’ll never find another
Lose your mind
Find a lover
Watch them cry
Nothings right
Wish I died
Sometime last year
Hope i find
Dawn tonight
Now it’s on fire
There’s nowhere left to wander
Soon everyone dies
We’ll never find another
Maybe it’ll happen a billion years from now
When the sun finally burns all it’s hydrogen
Or maybe it’s only a matter of months until we kill ourselves with nuclear war
Years ago when I was younger
I didn’t think about how the end would look or sound or feel
but the way our world and it’s people have seemed to move backwards in thought has pressed this idea up to the front of my skull
And I’m looking out my window
A hundred years from now as a member of a future generation
And what I’m seeing is terrifying
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Rager is the last released single from Laveda’s upcoming debut album, What Happens After. It’s fuzzy, loud and raw, standing out from the pack with an overly dramatic theory about how the end of the world would sound. “After the band found the sound for Rager,” says Ali, “I was immediately getting visuals of desert, wastelands, orange dust clouds, just post-apocalyptic chaos.”
The band decided to make the lyrics about what the end of the world might look like with a song like “Rager” playing in the background. At the time the song was coming together, Ali was taking a post-apocalyptic literature class and had just finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. “I was incredibly moved by the entire book,” recalls Ali. “McCarthy’s descriptive language of horrifying and bleak settings painted vivid pictures. The Road ended up having a huge impact on my creative decisions throughout the entire record.”
“Rager” started very indie pop, but once Ali and Jake tracked guitars for “Ghost” the band discovered a more fuzzed out, whammy bar bending tone to really work for their sound. Jake applied that same energy into the rhythm tracks for “Rager” and in doing so, the two were hearing things in the song reminiscent of more noisey bands like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Jake fell asleep towards the end of the session, when Ali hopped in to experiment with lead guitar ideas. “She ended up plugging a SG into a Fuzz Factory by Zvex and recorded this dope noisey thing but then buried it in the mix. When we listened to the first wave of bounces I was like ‘what is happening in the post chorus section? It sounds like a guitar but I can’t tell what it’s doing.’ When we started finishing this song up we turned it up to hear it, and now it’s like one of the loudest tracks in the mix. A stroke of genius once again from Ali haha.” While keeping the same vocal melody Laveda originally had, this experimentation helped create Laveda’s hybrid between noise and pop.
