Unwrapped: The Unkindness of Ravens / Till I Get Home
The cyber-grunge duo explain the origins of their new EP track, 'Till I get Home'...
Ben: I wrote 'Til I Get Home' the night after this girl I was crazy about rejected my advances. It was one of those nights when an impromptu afternoon drink turns into evening drinks and then, when it's two in the morning and all you got left is a bottle of sloe gin, you drink the sloe gin. Outta egg cups.
We shot the existential shit until she started asking me "What do you want Ben, what do you want?", over, and over... I didn't need to be asked twice, and leant in for the kill, and scared the life out of her. She had a boyfriend, I respect that, but trust me, you'd have done the same. I figured at least I didn't lie to her...
So I slunk back home and picked up the love of my life, Bloody Mary, my Jaguar bass. She never says no.
'Til I Get Home' is my fantasy reenactment of how that night should have gone. I wanted Nina to give it the desperate Kim Gordon 'Bull In The Heather' treatment. She totally fucking nailed it. It set the tone for the rest of the recording sessions, and we ended up making an EP that sounds pretty damn lustful. I haven't experimented with this yet, but I know this track would be great to have sex to.
"You got it going on, I can't escape it anymore..." Nine months later this girl jumped me in a bar and told me that the night we drunk sloe gin outta egg cups, I'd planted a seed in her mind that grew into this longing she could no longer escape. Rejected? Hell, just part of the plan...
I USED TO BE SO PRETTY EP - OUT DIGITALLY NOVEMBER 29
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