(Premiere) Inland Doves – 1996 Feat. Maia Davies

Toronto project Inland Doves has just released it’s latest music video “1996” featuring Maia Davies and we’re very excited for the opportunity to premiere it here on Dropout Entertainment! It’s an incredible song, featuring the perfect voice to go with the instrumentation to create an experimental indie feeling track that transcends genres. Edited by Rich Misener (the mastermind behind Inland Doves) the video uses effects and cut aways to bring you into a nostalgic, almost dreamlike state while enjoying the track. When asked about the inspiration behind the track, Misener had this to say

This is another one of those songs I wrote in Bali a couple years back – I distinctly remember writing the main synth part of this one while sipping on some morning coffee and hearing the birds chirping away in the trees outside – I actually recorded them and put them at the end of the track! In terms of lyrical content that is all Maiai so I will let her speak to that.

Maia Davies: The night before the session in Toronto I honestly didn’t have anything I loved prepared, but I woke from a fever dream that morning with this crazy lyric for the chorus “bring it all back with the lights and faders, never grew up cause we’re lost teenagers, still do the things we did in 1996 when we were kids”. It’s just a feeling I had , like nostalgia is a grip-able feeling, no matter your age. Think back to the parking lot you smoked weed in, or your first kiss in a car, or how alone but ready to bust out you felt in a cool house party, it’s still a memory you’ll hang onto visually forever. I told Rich about this in studio and he egged me on. I asked him about his own teenage experiences and worked them into the verses. I was listening to so much indie hip hop at that time and so that type of flow just naturally made its way into the phrasing I was coming up w in real time, w rich and producer guiding me further. So it doesn’t really rhyme conventionally or have a traditional songwriting vibe. It’s just stream of consciousness, based on dreams, re interpreted. The whole thing was a happy surprise for me, and let me express myself much more freely than I expected. And that, to me, is the essence of indie and experimental music, to have no boundaries, to jump in and take your friends with you, and rejoice in what happens in the chaos. When you’re writing from friendship, openness and wildness, all my favorite things happen. I’m so proud to have been part of this. Rich is a total visual and musical genius, and the fact that he unconsciously made room for me to be totally free writing this, well what a blessing. Reinforces my belief, after years in the music industry and it’s bullshit, that kindness and friendship breeds the best art.

When asked about his favourite memory of creating 1996, Misener said

I created the song on a laptop in my home studio – but taking it over to Half Moon Audio Studios in Toronto for Maia to do vocals and and having my good Friend Chad Skinner produce / mix / master it was def a highlight – The three of us had the best time and actually ended up writing a couple other songs that may see the light one day (Right chad / Maia? hah)

Inland Doves has two more songs coming for the current record, with one set to drop in April and the second dropping alongside the entire record in early summer! Inland Doves has yet to put out a track I don’t love, so keep your eyes out for more awesome music coming soon! When asked what else fans can expect, Rich left us with this

“Right now I am working on getting a few live shows lined up (finally) and then its time to get started on writing the next album. Which I promise wont take as long as this one has to put out!”