Lyrics: Harrison Mills/Clayton Knight/Thomas Stell
Music: Harrison Mills/Clayton Knight/Thomas Stell
How did 'Heart Attack' start
I don't even know I have to think about that
That one I remember I went over to Harrison's place
He just started working on music and came up with this little idea
It was this really basic thing but I remember we were just really in love with the rhythm of it all
I had this cool bassline on it but it was a bit digital
When I was back home I had this Juno 106 and it had broken and i was kicking myself i was like
This is the perfect synth for this i know this would nail this baseline but it's broken and for some reason the way that it was broken was creating this horrible noise
That sat perfectly into that sound
As i was finishing up recording some of the last passes of the bass line the thing was like fading out you could barely hear it anymore
But it was like the last thing that this instrument spat out before it died
And that bass line is one of my favorite things on the record it's so swung and simple
But so kind of defined like when that bass line hits you know it's that song you know
And it was like this last gift from a from a dying piece of equipment
It was about a year ago that they got in touch with me to say do you want to write something just totally out the blue
I was like, absolutely of course
They sent over the instrumental I fell in love with that
And then I threw down a rough sketch of some improvised melodies and sent that back to them and they chopped that up and that's how heart attacks started
She came back with a bunch of different melody ideas
Her tone and her delivery was so unique
When I come up with initial ideas I usually sing them in with my own little language of vowel sounds
That sound a bit like words but aren't words
And I sent it to the guys they chopped it into a bit more of a structure from my improvised ramblings
When they sent it back to me the words just started to emerge from it
They just kind of wrote themselves
I haven't met the guys and we've never been in the studio together
But ultimately we've been able to make music on three different continents and then suddenly to see other people connect with it and interpret it in their own way
That's always my favorite part