During our band practices, we often ended up jamming after “Wormhole”, since the song's original ending was a fade out. We were trying to figure out how to end the song and it ended differently every show.

One day, while I was listening back to BP and show recordings, one of the endings caught my attention. It was just a random guitar solo, but I thought that some of the rhythm and melody were pretty catchy, leading me to create “Stretched Time” using a single phrase from the solo.

After that, we played “Stretched Time” in every show, and it became a tune that completed “Wormhole”. All the members loved the song ‘cause it had a kinda krautrock vibe, and we’ve always been big fans of the genre. I decided to write more songs using the guitar solo and comprise an entire album.

It’s funny because the original idea for our third album wasn’t like that at all. I was going to put some leftovers from my demo folder and do some nasty recordings. Maybe I thought that it’d be less fun to make an album with a bunch of random songs, ‘cause I can do that anytime when I don’t have a specific concept.

With this new concept, the writing process was kinda strange and new to me. I had written a few more songs using the guitar solo, but I still needed more and I had already used all the material. So I started using the songs I had already made, either by incorporating a new riff or new chord progression (sometimes I reverse the one I already used) using the same bass and tempo as the previous song, or by slowing down the bass and creating a new riff from it. It felt like I was remixing my own songs. I think I really enjoyed the writing process, which I’ve never felt while making an album before. (The mixing was pretty tough though lol)

The initial idea for “Chihuahua” originated from Woonghee’s lost demo titled “Chewbacca”. Around 2016-17, he had shared his demos for his new side project with me. If my memory is correct, the demo only consisted of the main riff and the hook melody, both of which I ended up using as the intro and bridge for “Chihuahua”. Anyway, I’m sure that his first demo was pretty damn good.

Even before starting Wah, he and I often said that we should drop the demo sometime. though I was still thinking that the demo’s sound might be somewhat different from the overall vibe of the rest of the songs on the album, but I wanted to put it on anyway.

I started remaking it, and I asked Woonghee to send me the original demo again as a reference, but he said that he had lost it, haha… so I had to recall the sound relying only on my memory. I’ve never made a metal(-ish) song before, so I just did it the way I could. I shared the first demo with other boys, and they loved it! so I decided to include it on the album. I'm happy that we were able to bring the demo back to life!

Thanks to all who have discovered this album, and I hope you enjoy it.

-Su