Tom: I wrote the music for this song, but I can't quite remember what it was based upon. I think when it got recorded it ended up sounding a bit too chain-sawish, but that's just me. I've got to say, for as much as Neill derides it, I think the soaring bridgey bit is one of my favorite bits of our music.
“Vices” is a song that manages to sound like a laboratory experiment which mixed a touch of Anberlin’s sound with Silverchair’s sense of lyricism and then added in the “Ingredient X” that is the musicianship of Inverse Order. Dynamic and haunting, it’s just a damn nice song. Here’s what Thomas Watts and Neill Fraser wrote about the track:
Tom: Vices was something that I brought to a practice fully-formed and it hasn't changed since. The bridge is based on piece of music that I wrote a couple years ago, and that was played at my grandmothers funeral, so it's got a far amount of emotion embroiled up in it.
NIELL: The song came about one practice and it hasn't changed much since. Vocally I think at the time I was seeing how just far I could push my throat hence the strained nature of the main lines. Haven't played it live in quite while, we've always been fans of the bridge though.
“Good Morning Lullaby” is the fourth and final song that I’ll be reviewing today, but it bears the distinction of being Inverse Order’s first single. Starting off slow it slowly crawls into being on the backs of some lovely rhythm work by Tristan Lewis’s drumming and James Dylan’s bass guitar. Even after one listen it isn’t hard to see why this would get the band noticed on their home turf as far as radio goes, and many an established act would love to get their hands on a track like this. Here’s what Neill Fraser had to say about it:
NEILL: This (song) was originally written as a fairly dramatic piano piece. I had toyed with adapting it to guitar and wound up dropping what was the verse but the chorus stayed, pretty much the same as it was on piano albeit much 'bigger'. The verse/bridge etc. formed about that a little while and when it hit the band it made sense within a couple of plays.
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