Enjoy Walls on your favorite streaming services.It has also found a home on the Future Nostalgia playlist on Spotify.
This song tends to capture the audience’s attention at performances around NYC, with lots of positive feedback for its dark lyrics and visceral vibe.
For the studio version our friend Dan Florio graced us with a track on octave mandolin, which fits nicely in the sonic space and adds to the dreamy (or nightmarish) vibe.
Ryan brought a bit of his Pink Floyd influences into this by experimenting with some digital drum pad instruments.
If you listen closely you can also hear a triangle added by Jason’s wife, Natalie.
The inspiration for this song came from a Big City Folk Song Club challenge. The challenge word was rabbit hutch, which seemed absurd at the time. But after looking up what a rabbit hutch is the idea of a cage as both protection and prison made for good lyrical fodder.
Fears, after all, serve to protect us, but can also imprison us and keep us from living our best lives. So yes, it’s imperative to push ourselves past those boundaries from time to time, if only to remind ourselves what things feel like on the other side.