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Land and Sea - Reported FailureLyrics by Billie Beckett Production by Vin Peters and Avil Hartman Released on July 16th through Studio60 Records When it comes to rock and roll, no band in recent years has shown more downright, uninhibited ambition than California based quartet Reported Failure. With a recent #1 album ("Rome") the bands story is well known, but with the release of their latest single "Land and Sea" the band again challenge conventional mainstream radio. The standard assumption today is that a pop song will be around three minutes and at most five minutes. For "Land and Sea" Reported Failure double that in a six minute emotional epic that invites the listener along on an immense self-discovery.
THough Reported Failure is always relaxed and lacking expectations for their singles, the music industry will be watching "Land and Sea" closely. Reported Failure currently has five career airplay #1s and a sixth would tie them with Riot! in the Boulevard for the rock band with the most #1s since the airplay charts conception three years ago. But at six minutes and forty seconds "Land and Sea" is not considered to be radio friendly by anyone in the industry. The song has no chorus and is simply a string of Billie Beckett's cryptic poetry.
Aside from chart success, "Land and Sea" which is the fourth single off of Reported Failure's June release "Rome" has already received critical praise. Max-Volume Magazine said of the song "It is the kind of rock track, shrouded in mysticism and intrigue, that will entertain audiences everywhere and become to Reported Failure what Stairway to Heaven was for Led Zeppelin". Critic Alec Holter said "this is honestly one of the most beautiful/pulchritudinous/exquisite/foxy songs of the album". Regardless of the reception by mainstream audiences, Reported Failure has doubtless chosen another singles that will live in the history of their catalog, and of modern rock and roll. Quote:OverviewWriter: Billie Beckett
Producer: Vin Peters and Avil Hartman
Length: 6:40
Track: 10
The tenth track of "Rome", "Land and Sea" concludes the third part of the album (Also titled "Land and Sea"). It finally reaches the divine appeal that the past three songs had been building to. At almost seven minutes it is one of the most powerful and emotional songs on the album. With a moving instrumental arrangement that flows and evolves eventually to a full rock and roll, powerful, heavy moment backing him up, Beckett is able to spew the most emotional confessions of longing and reflection upon his past. The song is absolutely an album highlight. It was recorded in May 2013 at Sundlaugin Studios in Iceland. The lyrics were written by Billie Beckett and the song was produced by Vin Peters and Avil Hartman. Creating "Land and Sea"Writing"Love needs so much to last" says a very sober Billie Beckett. "So much goes into it and even then after you seem to have reached the greatest state of love and security with that love there needs to be something more. Some greater power keeping that love going. Maybe that power is love itself and love simply needs to be accepted and nurtured, maybe its just a mutual agreement never to give up. Maybe it is divinity. Maybe it is god. Regardless it needs to be expressed and found." It is this realization that sparked "Land and Sea" for Billie Beckett. For while searching for answers about love and life he realized that even after reaching whatever was meant to be reached there was still more to go.
For some time now Beckett has been living in a beach-side home near Santa Cruz, California. He's been seeing his son and her mother Sarah, the girl portrayed so negatively in the band's previous album "Darkness". Thus Beckett has had to try love again and again. "Raising a kid isn't easy. I've had to fight to be a part of his life. Then I've had to fight again to stay there. And through it all I've found the love I lost so long ago. That's where this song started. I need that love. I need it to last and to stay." says Beckett. "So I just started writing about how I wanted love to stay not even knowing yet that I was writing about a higher power than just humans and our lives. I didn't realize then that I was in fact talking not even about love but about our entire meaning and our entire purpose in life."
"I was outside my house sitting in the sand when I started writing this song. I was frustrated. So frustrated with everything. The waves were washing up just touching my ankles. Thus I was literally where the land met the sea. That's when I started writing this song." what Beckett would write down in a mere twenty minutes was the perfect accumulation of all the songs he had been working on for months. It was the answer to all the songs about his frustration with love and life and parenthood. THe song was a plea. "It was at that moment that I realized whether you believe in god or something else until you understand that divine power you cant be fulfilled you can only be desperate. So the song became about begging finally for that understanding to come." Recording"This was a song where we had to work hard to make it walk the line between being a layed back, quiet acoustic song and being a hard hitting heavy rock song because really with the lyrics it has neither of those would fit and it had to transcend and not be perfectly defined by either label." says guitarist and producer Vin Peters. This began with finding the right guitar style to go along with Beckett's vocals. The band tried acoustic and electric guitars alike, reverb and delay petals, muted and unmuted patterns, but it was to no avail. "Finally me and Billie just started messing around." says Vin. "Eventually we were just both playing two different patterns over eachother just for fun and I just stopped and said 'That's it.' and we went and recorded a demo ten minutes later."
With guitar all but handled the song started taking shape. "I think Vin and Billie with the guitar basically nailed what the song needed to be and from there me and Matt were just faced with the challenge of how to make it more than just a guitar jam without ruining it." says drummer Robert Edwards. The answer was subtlety. The band worked making the song blend well. Recording and re-recording until they felt satisfied. "We managed to make it so that the song sounds much more immense than it actually is. It sounds like there are more than just four instruments being played yet it still builds and flows and isn't just hard-hitting from start to finish." says Vin Peters.
With several days of endless work Reported Failure had a song they were proud of and it was ready for Billie Beckett's renowned vocal magic. Starting in the afternoon Beckett layed down one take and the whole band fell silent. "I knew right then that we had not just a great take but we had the next great Reported Failure song." says bassist Matt Collins. By late afternoon Collins had added the harmonies and the song just needed to be fully mixed and just like that Reported Failure was well on their way to finishing their masterpiece, "Rome'. Finished ProductBeginning like drops of water guitars play over eachother creating a smooth surreal quality. bass drum thuds joined by a bass itself but slow and mysterious. It is built into the atmosphere though as if it is the shaking of ice forcing the droplets that are the guitar notes to fall off the edge of a monstrously large glacier. Beckett's voice floats in as if from a wind. He sounds bigger than the song itself as if his voice transcends all instruments and lives apart from the song in its own everlasting world. Random echos from the guitar are like random flashes of sunlight or crashes of the ocean. drums still build the steady but quiet greater foundation of the ice. Beckett's voice seems to get closer and more prominent with a god-like presence with all the song built only to compliment and fulfill him. Harmonies come in. Drums build. Bass thuds. Guitar flows. Slowly and surely the dripping quickens. It quickens and quickens and quickens. Then crashing chunks of ice off the side of the glacier as the whole song seems to be surrounded by the water of noise and bass and guitar and drums as Beckett sings in full glory and emotion. The flood commenced and continuing on even after Beckett had left the water rose and flowed and sang in beautiful melody.
Breathe in and out
Take in the glory
Of this cool mountaintop
Breathe up and down
Fight for all the oxygen
Cry for all we've ever known
Carry the world up to us
Wont you come carry the world up to us
Come now in this new age
Come to the conquering souls of fate
Come with the green grass gardens
Come with the polished fields of hearts
Come build the greatest empire
Come now to your place in time
Come save the Roman Legions
Come take this glory you've earned
Come bring wide sprawling hills
Come where harmonies meet the sun
Come to this Icelandic love
Come take us to the sky above
Come now to heal my heart
Come bring a city by the sea
Come with your heavenly love
Come with fire to keep us warm
Come un-cage these dying men
Come save these frozen souls
Come after we have reached the top
Come make it everything we love
Come make this moment everlasting
Come help me understand
Come to where my love begins
Come and wash away its sins
Come now to where the land meets the sea
Come let all I have be free
Come to where the water finds the sand
Come stop earthquakes and come build land
For I have seen all the mountains
I've seen heaven I've seen hell
I've been through every storm
Survived every trial
Sung through every spell
So come to where the land meets the sea
Come show your face and let it be
For I have seen both worlds
I've drowned in the water
I have starved in the sand
I wont let this be my end
So come now come and ascend
Come to where the land meets the sea
Oh please come show me
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Alec: One of my favorites, as I believe I said in my review. It's an absolutely beautiful song, and definitely one of the best of this year.
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Originally Posted by: snap_itshannah  Alec: One of my favorites, as I believe I said in my review. It's an absolutely beautiful song, and definitely one of the best of this year. Billie: Thank you. I'm really glad you think so. We certainly love this song and everyone is reacting well to it on your. Hopefully the release goes well too. |
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