Tell You (demo)

This week's new song of the week is now available from dayve.co.uk or (once it updates) through iTunes.

It's the demo of Tell You, the full studio version of which appears on the Octagon album.

Most of the songs on Octagon, as well as several that didn't make it, were recorded in a pretty rough demo format for the producer, Nigel Stonier, to have a listen to. From there we decided which songs were going to make it into the studio and any changes we would make. They were recorded straight into GarageBand on a MacBook and often just as a rough single take.

Tell You is quite a haunting song, implying a bad secret but "without ever revealing". The demo version is essentially plucked chords (Am and Dm) with vocals and an improvised lead guitar part. Although the album version is also quite stripped down, it is mainly lead by a bass guitar riff, vocals and percussion. The lead guitar part has stayed pretty much unchanged.

While a few of the songs from Octagon had been written for some time before recording, Tell You was written pretty well into the planning stages of the album, around September 2007, and as such was not as well known by me both in the demo and final recording stages which I think is actually an advantage for this song.