Track By Track: Slide - 'Things I Tell Myself EP'
Having been compared to the likes of Brockhampton, Dominic Fike and Post Malone - Swedish genre bending duo Slide have just released their new EP ‘Things I Tell Myself’ via If Music Could Talk. They took a moment to talk to us about the release - track by track.
Keep Shining
We felt like young people nowadays, including us, spend a lot of time worrying about the future and growing up and making money and stuff like that. And we dont really have the answers either so we’re pretty much just singing to ourselves saying “keep going it’ll all make sense at some point’.
Waiting
Waiting is about a lot of things. I think it was just a reflection on everything going through my mind at the time like love, life, death, success, failure and even global warming in some regard. I realised I was really scared about the future and the only thing that made me calm was talking about these things with my girlfriend and how love is kind of this eternal larger than life thing you know?”.
Pool Water
We’d been having a pretty unproductive day so when night came around we went out for hours just riding around on an electric scooter. When we came back to the studio we wrote Pool Water. It’s kind of about wanting success alongside wanting love and like juggling those two things trying not to confuse them.
Maybe I Just Hate You
Sometimes you just hate a person whether its an ex, boss or whatever and you have no reason to try and make it better really. That’s just something we wanted to put in a song. The feeling of “get the F out of my face” you know? Also we felt like we hadn’t written anything with attitude in a good while so we just wanted to blow off some steam I guess.”
Hello Spirit
We wrote this song quite some time ago but we’re happy we finally get to release it and show it to everyone. I guess you could say it’s about having a bad trip and breaking free from that experience. And then also breaking free from all the bad habits you use to comfort yourself. “Throw away the jackets that I own, I don’t think it’s raining where I’m going” is pretty much just saying that whatever it is I am and wherever i’m going, whether it’s heaven or some kind of hell, I want to take it for what it is and not drown that experience in substance or bad relationships.