(antiMusic) Light This City release their brand new album "Stormchaser" last week and to celebrate we asked vocalist Laura Nichol and drummer Ben Murray to tell us about their favorite songs from the album. Here they are with today's song "The Anhedonia Epidemic":Laura: I love taking clichιd, played-out concepts, and trying to put my own spin on them and make them fresh. This is just the old, run-of-the-mill "Love as a disease" metaphor, but I wanted to make it as medical as possible. I took out my medical journal, and just started writing down words I thought would be interesting to scream. I kind of imagined this terminally ill girl running around, trying to infect her true love so he could share her anguish, but she ends up infecting all these other people in the process, and no one can diagnose the problem. Meanwhile, he seems to already be infected with apathy. Every day, it seems like there is a new epidemic. And I think that serves to desensitize a lot of people. The biggest problem of all might not be this or that new sickness, but the growing number of people who just don't give a shit anymore.
Ben: This song is special to me personally because I wrote a lot of it, but mainly because I love all the melody in it. This in contrast is probably the most melodic thing we have ever written. Ryan and Brian added an awesome twist to the first riff, and the ending is an epic buildup that we all really enjoyed playing every single time at practice. It has an odd timing which really actually flows nicely. The chorus is so melodic it could be a pop punk band if you took out the screaming, which I think is awesome. This song is one of the highlights of the record in my opinion.
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