Holdouts

So me and Julian have finished our vocals for Jim and Brownio's rollickingly great track. We were attracted to the idea of the Japanese holdouts, soldiers living in the jungle on islands long after the war had ended unknowing or disbelieving that Japan had surrended. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout

We put ourselves in the shoes of one particular soldier who spent almost 30 years on a remote Philippine island attacking "enemy" fishermen and destroying the "enemy food supply" (harvested rice), and thought we had quite a poignant little theme going on. Then we stumbled upon a recent newspaper article where our hero gurgitates (Can one just gurgitate?) nationalist militaristic claptrap, so we ended up giving him a gentle ribbing.

As everything that me and Julian have done together with IML, it quickly descended into farce, and I love it.

Can't wait for the album.

Samu