Behind the Song - Golden Era

This album in a way wrote itself through a two year process of trial and error, wins and losses,tears and triumphs. Golden era really taught me that “you can’t force a good thing”. When we started the process of writing this album “Golden era” was the single most formative phrase that we clung to iteration after iteration. It was the guiding light helping us not settle in our comfort zone, but to pursue relentlessly the craft and potential of this album concept.

The first attempt at the album started in 2022, right after the world had just started waking up after the disruption of 2020. We locked ourselves in the studio pursuing what we thought at that point was going to be a worship album. With a desire to make feel good songs with a purpose we found ourselves hitting a glass ceiling with the structures of the christian genre and were forced to go back to the drawing board creatively.

That is when the real party started. I will never forget, Joren and I were sitting on our couch about to watch a movie and we were asking each other probing questions as to why our current process wasn’t working. Then it clicked. We needed to write music that was upbeat and truth filled, but not limited to the christian genre. When we made this discovery I realized that my voice and writing ability needed a complete overhaul to be able to execute what I knew in my spirit the album needed to be. I immediately enrolled in voice lessons, and entrenched myself in upbeat and iconic dance song studies to be able to execute this vision.

A year and a half later here we are again. This time prepared and focused on the vision we know we are called to create. After I had written about 67 songs, I started to get a real feel for the lyrical style and melodic structures that were really working for this record. The title Golden era was still in my phone waiting for the sonic inspiration to be released. And one night in a span of 45 min it finally came. I remember looking up at Joren and saying “I did it, I wrote golden era”. He looked at me almost in disbelief after seeing the amount of attempts over the last two years that had come to nothing.

I wanted the song to feel nostalgic, but modern with a similar quirky lyrical tone that had been reflected in some of the other songs on the record(la la land, love a go go). “The face that I love” by Chris Karan was a part of the inspiration lyrically. I loved the imagery and the nostalgic feel of the writing. I really admire and miss the humor and character of 1950’s songs, they really had a love for the craft of writing a good song and telling a story in an entertaining and off beat kind of way.

It was worth the wait and now holds the spot as the title track of the album. It truly embodies the essence of this record. With its fun and quirky lyrical tone mixed with the hopeful and optimistic theme that is laced throughout the entire record.