Shiner have premiered a new song titled “The Alligator.” This track is from the band’s new album, “BELIEVEYOUME,” which will be released on September 26.
Frontman Allen Epley commented:
“It’s about control artists, gaslighters, love bombers, and the ilk who can manipulate others sometimes without even knowing they’re doing it. They hold all the cards in the relationship and can provide and take away. It’s slap and tickle and slap again. Classic abuse and controlling ploys.
The odd-timed groove seemed to draw these lyrics out of me. The first thing put down was the initial two-guitar loop and I then built the chord progression off that. I considered breaking into a straight groove at some point, but the song wanted to feel that five-beat pattern throughout. When we got to the ending section, I didn’t have the chords finished until Jason Gerken came over and hummed the part to me. I was like ‘Ah!’ So really Gerken wrote the ending explosion!”
[via Flood Magazine]
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