Living Room Sessions: Hunter

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15 Oct

15 OCT 2019

The third in a back-catalogue series exploring past May Project tracks, presented as a lo-fi ‘living room’ video and accompanying blog and playlist.

LIVING ROOM SESSION #3.

Track: Hunter

Year of release: 2015

‘Hunter’ is something of an ode to keeping on keeping on when the going gets tough: I wrote it in the middle of a rather unsettled season in my life, and it translated itself into an expression of gritty determination despite challenges (that ol’ chestnut!).

At the time, I was juggling a couple of part time jobs while trying to get my label off the ground (still a work in progress), was picking myself up from being burnt out, and had the sweet-and-sour aftertaste from odd little affairs of the heart still lingering.

The track built itself up around an initial ‘knock-knock’ drum loop, and lo and behold, morphed itself into a song referencing the children’s story of the Three Little Pigs (I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!): danger, bravado, ignorance and indifference, pleased to make your acquaintance. It’s a kind of sing-song chant, and ends with a layering of the different melodies (like the ‘rounds’ we used to sing in childhood): “cry like a child who’s seen the night (the wolf is at the door), scared by the shadows being cast by light (he’s blowing at the walls), I’ll see them grow, see them turn into signs (he’s a hunter, he’s a hunter)”.

Here’s my living room version - lyrics below the video. Hope you enjoy it!

Listen to the original here

Lyrics:

The wolf is at the door

He's blowing at the walls

I don't care,

I don't care at all

Cry like a child who's seen the night

Scared by the shadows being cast by light

I'll see them grow, see them turn

Into signs

I am at the door