Natural Light - Commentary

Natural Light to me is such an interlude, you know, uh
It, it, to me it's kind of an homage
Especially the intro
To the years that I spent making stuff that they were calling IDM
Back in the day the-
The much more aligned name for, you know, intelligent dance music, back then
Uhm, just lots of glitches, you know, effects square push through that whole
Initial names and all that stuff

Uhm, and yeah, I wanted, I liked a lot of those rhythms
And just almost arbitrarily cut up, uh, loops
And, I thought it would be cool to have like, I don't know, another kind of late sounding
Sassy, soul, semi-soulful beat mixed with that IDM stuff from my childhood
And, that bell melody, yeah
The pun, pun-pun-pun
Pun-pun-pun-pun
That's just a sad melody to me

When, when I hear it, I think of
I don't know, I think of like Gorillas or something
You know, there's something very, kind of
Not mournful, it's not grieving
It's not that kind of sadness
It's melancolic coke, it's like, uh, idle sadness to me

In fact idle sadness or idle longing
Was the name as a tentative song title that-
That never actually got used 'cause it was embarrassing
But uh, yeah, that bell melody is a little special to me
And it's, it's unique, it's not upfront, it's shy