Courtesy of Jane's Party.
Artist: Jane’s Party
Single: Common Guys
From: Toronto
We are thrilled to share the brand new single from Jeff Giles, Zach Sutton, Devon Richardson and Tom Ionescu.
The band has lots of shows lined up this week. They will be on Ottawa on Thursday, Peterborough on Friday, and playing back home in Toronto on Saturday.
Here’s a statement from Ionescu about this song:
“Devon had played us a new demo called ‘ABBA Ripper’ and it was pretty much note-for-note the instrumental to the song that’s now ‘Common Guys’. A few weeks later, on a walk to a park with my headphones on, I wrote the entire song in a matter of minutes. Producing the recording required a fine line between polished dance-pop and slacker indie rock. With the turn of a dial, the tune would teeter too far in either direction – either gaining too much confidence or losing the fun, dancy atmosphere. My production note to our wonderful mix engineer, Matty Green, was to ‘think grade 8 school dance, after school in the gym, trying to muster up the courage to ask a girl out.’ We made a point to highlight the backing vocals, which rally behind our protagonist. We found the contrast between our protagonist identifying as just another common guy and the over-the-top technical jazz guitar solo was a great way to highlight the idea that we all feel so uninteresting or not special at times – but when we’re just being our normal selves and nobody’s watching, we do some of the most incredible things. It so often happens that we don’t see our superpower in the moment.”
Listen to the 91X Indie Song of the Day at 8:15 p.m., 12:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., and 7:15 p.m.
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