"Dead Eyes" was recorded in Robbie Lackritz's coachhouse in Toronto. Anna and I playing live, we both sang and played guitar. The drum machine we used on this one is some kind of 80's Yamaha that has about 100 beats and every single one is terrible. Still I've managed to put a handful of them to work -- for Dusted and for Holy Fuck. The trick is to get them running through other peddles and droning with mixer feedback. Then they can be unique and at least interesting sounding -- maybe terrible yet interesting? Loel Campbell added drums the following day.
Listen to the premiere of Dusted's "Dead Eyes" below.Andrea Domanick is Noisey's West Coast editor. Follow her on Twitter.The song is about being denied something so long that you turn around and deny someone the exact same thing. A 'see how it feels' kind of reversal of power. But also a cautionary tale of how to not make the same mistakes. It was written five or six years ago, so not really about anything specific in our current culture. Just some omnipresent mood—smash the status quo.