You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
In this episode, Alex Brown Church of Seawolf breaks down Casper,
a song from the album Old World Romance.
He talks about his songwriting process, collaborating with his bandmates,
and the evolution that comes with learning the difference between making something that's good and making something that's perfect.
I think the sky is gonna clear, cause the hills turn green in summer days.
But a lightning storm, a lightning storm.
I'm Alex Brown Church from the band Seawolf.
Today we're going to listen to Casper, which is from the latest Seawolf album, Old World Romance.
That came out in September of 2012.
Traditionally, I sort of just sat down with acoustic guitar and come up with ideas until, you know,
something clicked with me, and then I would just stick with it until it became a song.
But this time I wanted to be a lot more productive.
I just wanted to have a lot more songs to choose from at the end.
I would just record as many ideas as I could in a day on my iPhone.
Son of a bitch.
All right, I'm starting over again.
Here we go.