Patching Up by Wet Muscles

This album has been a trip. Originally started before Sunflowers had even come out, it has been something in the works for so long and probably too long. There have been many versions of album 1. None of the original songs survived to the final product, only living on in old demos and rare live performances. It took us forever to find our sound. The first demos had Aiden’s cello on every song and me attempting to play slide where it didn’t belong. These original songs helped us practice, helped us grow our chemistry. A lot of these tunes came out of jamming. Often one of us would have an idea for a sound or a dumb name for a song and we’d just play it. Try it a bunch of different ways.
All of the songs have a life of their own. Capsaicinoid Man has been a dream of Aiden and me since we were sitting in Nolan’s AP Euro class junior year of high school. The amount of demos and concept recordings for that song is absurd. Midsummers and Wunderpus were two I wrote the summer of 2021 (with Wunderpus being one of many songs I’ve written on my Great Grandma’s front porch) and Beowulf was a recollection of a senior trip our friend group went on. Mushrooms was an exercise in trying to write something without knowing where it would end up. Neon was Janice’s love of City Pop coming into view and the entire band’s obsession with Masayoshi Takanaka creeping front and center (Aiden made the bass line around the time he was arranging Rainbow Goblins for a school assembly). Deep Caves was basically a jam constructed for a specific show. It morphed into a random Janice power piece about cave flora and fauna. And Mouth of the River was a song I wrote about not being able to face change. The album has come out during our first year in college after forming the band junior year of high school. A lot had changed for us throughout that time but Wet Muscles was always a constant and this album has been a constant. This one is for the fans, everyone single person who helped us past and present, and those patient enough to put up with us not having music out. We love you.
- liam

dreamy band from Norman, OK