And then it kinda shifts gears and it gets to an even more intense part. MICKEY KELLERMAN: The first part of the song starts kinda sparse and then you have like a sparse beat, dance beat that comes in and it kind of builds an intensity for the first half of the song. MICKEY KELLERMAN: Unlike a lot of electronic dance music, which is like laptop-based and all sampled drums, like the electronic dance music I’ve always been interested in writing, I’ve always wanted it to have actual powerful acoustic drums as a part of it and a live drummer. You know, it wasn’t about that, it was literally about the process of creation. You know, “Is anyone ever gonna hear this?” I don’t know. LYRICS: You always see what you want / Find reason to pursueĪNNA SOLTYS: This voice that we have inside of ourselves can lead us down really kind of scary places.ĪNNA SOLTYS: Take the time, do the work, absorb it and then let’s talk.ĪNNA SOLTYS: It was a lockdown, and we didn’t know if we would leave the house again. And in all of these songs, it was so freeing to be able to do that. That was a way not just for ourselves to feel connected to the world and maybe to try to connect with other people, but for us to heal.ĪNNA SOLTYS: Music writing becomes so much fun when you can trust your instincts and when you can trust your intuition. That’s something that we focus 100% of our attention and energy on.ĪNNA SOLTYS: You know, a lot of these songs were written through 2020. It was scary, it seemed like society was completely unraveling.ĪNNA SOLTYS: All of our work, from start to finish, is about mental health. It was one of the most emotionally raw times of my life. I started writing it in April or May of 2020 and all the way into, like, June when, like, the George Floyd protests were happening. MICKEY KELLERMAN: Writing this song, we had been a few months into the shutdown.
LYRICS: Shadow Warriors, get to it / Pull your dark ships though the nightĪNNA SOLTYS: The first verse really deals with that self-battle of comparing where you’ve come so far with what your expectations are. They’ll be telling us about their songwriting process and walking us through “Shadow Warriors,” the seventh track from their debut album, “Right Path.” Today, we’re sitting down with two of their members, lyricist and vocalist Anna Soltys and co-creator and musician Mickey Kellerman, who is actually a Northwestern alum from the Class of 2003. JOANNE HANER: The song you’re hearing is “Shadow Warriors” by the electropop trio Syzygal.
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And so I think the song was kind of derived from that concept of fighting off these voices or these ideas or (our) own worst critic or our own worst enemies. Our own shadows can be sometimes spooky, the little people sitting on our shoulders telling us things can be spooky. Electropop group Syzygal walks us through their song “Shadow Warriors” from their debut album, “Right Path.”ĪNNA SOLTYS: When the Sun goes down and things start getting really quiet, and these demons, if you will, sometimes will come out.
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