Poison Touch

RELEASED

Days Of Abandon, deluxe and Chile editions, 2014 (Yebo)

Abandonment Issue, 2014

NOT PLAYED LIVE

FACTSA song with Jen Goma on lead vocals, recorded during the Days Of Abandon sessions and not used on the album. This was not one of the original 3 B-sides appended to the Japanese release of the album, and it joined them on Abandonment Issue, as well as the deluxe version of the album. It was written to a full-scale pop song, of the kind Taylor Swift sings. It appears Poison Touch has never been played live.

QUOTES
Kip to Indie Cindy, WMBR, 2014: "For the most part, it’s just me singing, but for the new record, it was cool because Jen Goma from A Sunny Day in Glasgow recorded with us and she’s such a good singer. So she really brought songs like ‘Kelly’, ‘Life After Life’ to life. And there’s another one we just put out on the EP called ‘Poison Touch’ that she sang as well. And she’s super talented, but she wasn’t able to tour and make a big commitment, but she was able to come by and work on the music. I feel like had I been ‘Only people officially in the band can be on the record’, it wouldn’t have turned out as good."

"Well, when we were recording the record, we had some kind of oddball references in terms of the sound we wanted. Taylor Swift’s last record ‘Red’ was really good and I wanted things to feel immediate and crisp and have the lyricism and the story telling at the fore of the songs. So that was kind of an idea we had, it should be more like Taylor Swift: it should be really crisp, poppy, and good. We were also thinking about that Outkast song ‘Hey Ya’ a lot. It’s a really famous song, Outkast is a lot more well-respected, they probably wouldn’t want to be reduced to being the band that did ‘Hey Ya’, but I love that song. They were so innovative in hip-hop and underground music in the late 90s and 2000s. Incredible band. The crispness of how that song is was what we were trying to get at with ‘Simple and Sure’. Obviously we’re a really different band than Taylor and Outkast, but they’re both great in their own way and their approach to music. Even if you wouldn’t expect a band like ours to be listening to that, we are. Always trying to learn new things and find new ways to make pop songs better. So why not learn from some of the best out there?"

MEDIA
Studio/EP version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNKCDFDWtJc