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“No Bad Trips was a project born out of a need to reconnect with the intuitive rather than something intended for public consumption. What began as a private reset slowly took shape around a simple but central idea: start with feeling, and let everything else follow. Vocal hooks and chords became the emotional anchors for each track, with production decisions made in service of whatever those early ideas suggested. “We’re obsessed with the high you feel from a good vocal hook,” they explain. “Once we have something that makes us feel something, the rest of the track tends to reveal itself.”
That approach runs through the EP in different ways. “Sugarblood” arrived quickly, fuelled by momentum and a shared sense of excitement, while “Smoke Break” channels a more direct, dancefloor-facing impulse, a respectful tip of the cap to their shared love of house music and the feeling of stepping outside to reset before returning to the night. Elsewhere, instinct takes on a darker shape. “Endless” was guided almost entirely by imagery, its shifting chords and unresolved motion shaped by visions of storms over open water, communicating something expansive, beautiful, and faintly unsettling.
Imagery played a quiet but important role throughout the process, not as a fixed concept, but as a way of staying connected to the initial emotion. The music was allowed to rise, crest, and fall without being forced into resolution. “You don’t necessarily need words to convey an emotion,” they note. “Sometimes it’s better to let people give it their own meaning.” This is especially evident on “Final Girl,” which closes the EP by returning to a softer, more reflective space, a reworking of an earlier idea that felt too important to leave behind.
After years spent refining their craft making more inward, melancholy music across a myriad of different projects, this way of working felt like a chance to stop overthinking and make music for themselves again. “We weren’t really thinking about whether anyone would ever hear it,” they say. “We were just enjoying the process.” That shift in mindset shaped the record’s energy, resulting in something more playful, open, and emotionally immediate. Rather than chasing a sound or outcome, No Bad Trips documents a return to trust and to the idea that emotion alone can be enough to carry a song forward.”
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