It was just one of those things where magic happened. Well that song in particular was a real Frankenstein in the studio. Are those the sorts of things that you slot in when you’re composing or is it a more organic thing in the studio? You spoke before about the creation process. For example, there’s a particularly funky little synth lick in “Feels Like I’m Dying”. Misery appears to be musically quite diverse album with little genre crossing cameos. Joel wrote it in I think one night, and then everything else sort of snowballed from there. so we all decided to put together an 80’s Australian Crime Story. We’re all big fans of 80’s crime stories, like Chopper etc. I mean for our last album we did a two-part storyline, but this time around, now that we finally had the budget, we thought beauty. We’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time. How did the concept for those come about? The cinematic videos you’ve released so far are just gripping. So yeah I do sorta just choose which songs lyrically go with which tracks musically. Dan wrote about twenty songs, so I just chose the ones that I thought were good enough. So I get the fun job of being the composer, where I get to choose the songs we actually use. I get Joel’s lyrics and then I compose melodies for the lyrics. With this album, Dan wrote all the music. So Joel writes all the lyrics, does he come to you with that and sort of go here’s where my head is at, or does the music get written separately and then it becomes a process of fitting it all together? But musically we just wanted to try some new stuff. I mean I don’t write the lyrics, that’s all Joel. You guys have a rep for hitting the tough issues front on, but this is particularly dark matter. Bassist/Vocalist Ahren Stringer sat down with Josh Champion from the AU to look back on the release. Back in August, The Amity Affliction released their new album Misery, which saw them claim their fourth #1 album on the ARIA charts.
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