Indie rockers from New York, Stone Cold Fox are gearing up to head out on the road for a small tour in August. The tour is in support of their EP, Tunnel Vision which was released earlier this year.
Tunnel Vision delivers five songs that walk the balance of rock and pop complete with the raw honest emotion and indie passion. Check out a track by track of their EP:
Contagion was actually written towards the end of our last LP Memory Palace. At first we tried it as a straight rock song, but it wasn’t right, than we tried it as a chill wave song, but that didn’t feel like us, we couldn’t really figure out the right vibe for it. Instead of rushing it and putting it on the album, we decided to just keep working on it, and as we wrote other songs, later to become Tunnel Vision EP, it started to really started to take form. In a lot of ways the song is really about the process and feeling so pulled in all directions.
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Firing Squad was originally a very slow depressing song. I write a lot of them haha, most of them don’t make it to Stone Cold Fox, and the one’s that do we actually find a way to flip them on their end. We decided to speed it up, blast some energy into it, and give it a chorus that pulls you up. What started as a song about defeat, turned into a song about triumph in the face of defeat. That’s always really exciting for a songwriter, to see a song really transform like that, I could sit in my room all day and pump out a lot of sad old bastard music, but it’s so great to work with other people to bring that emotional fuel to it, but actually construct something positive from it. (nothing against sad old bastard music though, I still love that shit)
Morning Light is really a vibe song. The story and lyrics came after, which is sometimes different for me. Especially because this one actually began from an idea Graham Stone brought to the table. The lyrics really ended up being used as a backdrop for a setting, in a lot of ways I feel like the music really tells it’s own story here. But because the song is so rooted in the groove it creates it’s become a band favorite to play live.
Change My Mind is a song that really gets to the core of the EP, it’s about staying the course no matter what. The song evolved over the course of a year as we honed in on a new sound. As we’ve developed as a group, we have become much more comfortable with writing together and this was one of the first songs that was truly a collaborative writing process. It was a tough one to get through, took many revisions, a lot of rerecording, but we finally finished it, and it makes it so much more rewarding having gone through the struggle.
Polyethylene was sparked by former member Ariel Loh with a super catchy synth line that opens the song. We used it as a basis and then just built on it from there, adding pulsing guitar and synth, monster noises from Justin, eerie guitar lines from Graham and forward moving drums from Aaron. The song came about so quickly because at this point in the EP we had really found the sound we were going for. It was a song that took a lot of collaboration and really spanned a lot of ground musically and had a wide range of influences. It acts as the final battle ground for a lot of the themes running through the album; battling with insecurity, powering through depression, and finding your voice. Though the ending is heavy, I feel like it’s actually this dark and loud celebration of all these things finally being overcome.
Take a listen to the EP here:
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