Fingerprints - (Nai Palm, Simon Mavin) Commentary

Fingerprints was one of the first songs I ever wrote

Wrote it when I was about like 16 and uhmm

So I'm an orphan, and essentially it's about a tribute to childhood and like hanging on to that

But also growing through your loss, yeah

And so fi-fingerprints

There's a line in it that's like "The grubby fingerprints that kissed the walls have vanished"

And that is uhmm, there was a hallway that had a clint image at the end of the hallway

It was the lovers or the kiss, I think it's called the kiss

And me and my brothers used to practice Spider-Man climbing up the walls

And my mom used to be furious 'cause of all these little fingerprints

That went all the way up to the roof

And she could tell that we've been doing it

'Cause there'd be all this like, grubby little handprints

So yeah, it's like "The grubby fingerprints have vanished"

As in like, you know, it's, it's a memory of something

This certain little key moments of my childhood that kind of pop out

And you'll be, you know, you'll be surprised

It's always like something really random like that you think of

Uhmm, yeah, but it was really amazing that the boys were like

I was like "Oh, no that's an old song, it's terrible, we're not using that"

And they're like "No, you should, we should put it on the album

Because, you know, because it's, because it's cool"

And so, I was really, it was really amazing that the boys supported

Something that I, you know, it's something that such

That holds part of my songwriting lineage

Well alright, well the track "Fingerprints" was written by Nai

A long time ago, she wrote it when she was young

And she brought it to the band

Pretty much in the beginning when we first met

So we've been playing it for quite a while

We developed it live, and it's got a similar vibe to Nakamarra, I guess

So we thought we'd take a similar approach

and we did when we recorded Nakamarra

And we just recorded it live pretty much

With instruments and we got vocals

So we used a, a Stellavox mixer which goes straight to a stereo track

When you finish the, the live tracking

So, there's, there's no mixing or doing post stuff on that tracks

So, it's, it's a pretty limiting way to do it, but it ends up being a, a good way

Because, you know, you get the sound, and you like it

And you go, "that's it" and that's what you have to work with

So, yeah, it was really good to do that process

We, we did it on a few tracks, for the record

But, I guess it's much prominent on this one

Because we didn't really add much, we didn't really do much in post

We did do a bit of synthesis and vocals

But other than that it's, you can really hear the bare bones of what we were playing