FROM OLD SCRAPS COMES A MONSTER TUNE
Like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, Go Bury Your Monsters have taken fragments and facets of dormant demos and turned them into a living, beating collection of songs:
their forthcoming EP, Body Language. The project started 18 months ago when Shayne Byrne (Producer) and Stephen Young (Vocalist) began sifting through Byrne’s old demos and came across some bright, shiny objects. From there, Byrne and Young worked on a small number of arrangements and on board came Darragh J. Glennon (Bassist, Vocalist) and Brian Murphy (Guitarist) to assemble what would be Go Bury Your Monsters
Science Of The Heart is a song that seemed ready to burst out into the world from almost the moment Glennon and Murphy added their parts. And it’s little wonder why.
Glennon’s bass provides the pounding pulse of the track, as Murphy lifts the song into fifth gear; his guitar solo sends Science Of The Heart ascending far beyond its modest demo beginnings. Young’s vocal cuts through the mix, his lyrics: forensically searching for the unanswerable answers as to why people keep breaking other people’s hearts.
Producer, drummer and keyboardist, Byrne brings all of these elements together with deft hand, delivering a brilliant performance both in front of, and behind the desk.
Bassist Darragh J. Glennon said: "We haven't all been in the same room at the same time, or the same studio. So it's almost like this set of recordings lives in the ether.“
Producer Shayne Byrne said: “I’ve known the 3 guys most of my musical life from various other projects and to have the opportunity to be songwriting penpals well i can’t think of 3 other like minded musicians i’d rather make noise with…even if it took good internet and 4 different locations“
Vocalist Stephen Young said: “We’re genuinely excited to share Science Of The Heart with everyone. We’ve had a blast making it. It’s been fun, even just in the online meetings we’d have we were mostly bantering, which is a nice way to work when you can, and I think that comes across when you listen to the song.”
Guitarist Brian Murphy added: “For what was an international recording project, it all came together surprisingly easy. Everyone kinda added their own flavorings. Shayne and Stephen kinda started the roast beef, prepared the meat… myself and Darragh maybe seasoned the meat, and then Shayne cooked and served the meat.”
Go Bury Your Monsters (GBYM) is the realisation of a project that grew from the scatterings and seeds of ideas lying around on Shayne Byrne’s (Owner, Ragged Company Recordings) hard drive.
On there, were the dozens of demos; riffs, 30 second clips, synth daydreams, and sometimes only 12 bars of music that Darragh J. Glennon, Shayne Byrne, Stephen Young and Brian Murphy took and transformed into the melodies and music that is now Body Language; the four-song EP that owes as much to 1980s Peter Gabriel as it does to The War On Drugs.
Working remotely – aside from Byrne, at his studio, RaggedSound, in County Carlow – Young (living in Italy), Murphy (living in Westmeath) and Glennon (living in Spain), the four musicians took the elements they found and spent 18 months delving into the original material to create compositions that pushed their own boundaries and yet, grasped at something that was, to their ears, a collage of retro and contemporary.
Working across country and county borders, the four made use of modern technology: Byrne (Producer, drums, keyboards, guitars) would usually send the demos on to Young (Vocalist), who would then arrange the songs at his home studio, often in tandem with Byrne. Young brought up the theme of using the human body as a theme for the EP, each song using a bodily organ figuratively but often metaphorically in the lyrics.
From this, the band expounded on the theme to create a soundscape that pulsed and breathed even more life into the songs: Glennon (Bass – from his home studio in Spain) provided the bedrock for Murphy (Guitars – at his home studio in Mullingar) along with Byrne on drums, keyboards and synthesizers. Together the four pieced together what would become Body Language, the first EP from Go Bury Your Monsters. From their first EP, comes Science Of The Heart, the band’s first single.
It was the first song that Byrne and Young put their heads together on to create the arrangement and so only apt that it be the first of their four Monstrous songs that GBYM release.
Their debut single - Science Of The Heart
Available everywhere on April 4th
FOR FANS OF:
War on Drugs/Volcano Choir/Peter Gabriel
For inquiries, please contact: goburyyourmonsters@gmail.com
