The DuBarrys know how to construct an ear worm.
New cut 'Catch The Rider' stays with you long after the final note is over, it's chiming melodies and nagging melancholy lingering in the sub-conscious.
Clash invited the band to break down the track, its method of construction, its lyricism and its impact. It makes for fascinating reading…
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'Catch The Rider' is a song I wrote about two years ago, I usually write on guitar but wrote this track on piano and found it helped writing on a different instrument.
I remember the lyric “Catch The Rider” had been there in early demo versions, where I would just mumble words and melodies. It just stuck the whole way through. I didn’t quite know what it meant at first, but I knew it was meaningful to me inside. It just sounded right and it's one of those lyrics where the meaning isn’t that obvious when you read it, but people can interpret it in different ways, and that’s what I try to do when writing lyrics. I like using metaphors a lot.
“I might even like it, I might even like it if I try” means you won't know until you try and you’ll most likely like it when you do. If not, at least you’ll have an answer. It’s like that for a lot of people, we’re comfortable in what we know, places we know, with people we know, and we don’t take any risks any more and just got for it.
'City love' is because I'm not originally from a big city. For me, moving to a city was out of my comfort zone but was always a dream of mine to do. The guitar riff then came later. We knew it needed a catchy guitar lick and wanted it to sound very percussive, almost like it was a percussion instrument, playing 16th notes like the hi hat.
Overall, the track is about leaving your comfort zone, leaving the ones you know, friends, parents, girlfriend, and going on your own journey to find your own way. We all go through this once we leave home, and “catch the rider on my way” is about finding that adventurer in you and riding with it.
We all have two 'voices' in our heads, one that tells you to stay in your comfort zone and one that tells you to go for it and go on an adventure. That's the voice that you should try to follow, that's the 'Rider'.
