Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO6RuA6gprQ

Come on, summer lovers. Let's get gooey. Let's get pretty. Let's shimmer. This one's for you.

I walk around with a half-baked clown car of song ideas, riffs, snippets, melodies, and lyrics in my head day in and day out. Feels good to drop one of those weirdos off once in a while. So yay! New song.

"Siren Song" is the song-cousin to "Like an Instrument," my other most recent song. Maybe tender, trippy, semi-sultry bass diddies are my new thing. But whereas "Like an Instrument" is kind of bossy and dominant, this one is more gentle and submissive, even cheerful. Yang/yin. Dark/ light. Both songs about chasing, longing, wanting.

The bass line and first verse have been around forever. I am aware songs are supposed to have instrumental changes. I've tried multiple changes, but they always feel unwelcome and forced. So in this case I am embracing the hypnotic factor, dynamics, vocals, and proceeding sans change. Doubling down vocally on the sweet intimacy of the verses with the overt ecstasy of the choruses. And I suppose it is unusual to hear low bass being the main accompaniment to high soprano female vocals. So maybe this is cool.

The "La-Da" chorus. Fun fact. I inadvertently poached it from the Furcorn character in the game My Singing Monsters. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfIWtKVA-4 I was really into that game; Furcorn is my favorite monster. My kids caught it. First and rough take on the la-da got the job done, and last four bars improvised on the spot. That surprised me. Did ya catch the grab from Pixies "Where Is My Mind?"

Rest of the song just showed up and finished itself in the last month or so. Second two verses lyrically and me accepting it instrumentally without a clunky, obligatory change.

The bass line is busy for me. I can't play and sing this at the same time. So composing like this is new to me. I can't "practice." I am used to embodying a song, playing rhythm guitar and singing. But to have the main accompaniment and vocals so separate in my mind until recording time is really interesting. It feels extra good to get them out of my head. I am more listener than maker. It is taking some getting used to. But I do love the idea of being composer more than performer, I always have, so I am going to accept more of this.

It was a joy to work at Power Plant in San Clemente with Biff Cooper at the controls again. He rocked it!! Easy song, short takes all around. Knocked it out quick. All the guitars and that dreamy, gooey chorus mixing. That's Biff's specialty, and he knocked it out of the park. Again. Thanks Biff!