Spiral XP have shared “Sinner,” the track, is the latest single off their debut album I Wish I Was A Rat, available October 18th via Danger Collective Records. In the song Max Keyes imagines what it might be like to navigate the world with blind confidence, ultimately concluding that we’re all engaged in the same struggle: to find meaning in a culture that only equates value with profit. “I’m a sinner no big deal,” he sings with Farr-Morrissey, “Now I’m playing center field.” The laid back delivery lends every lyric a revelatory power, playful character studies that tow the line between fiction and diaristic confessions.

“This song is about a lot of things but mainly it’s about how in the end we’re all trying to figure out what’s important and what we value as we navigate and grow in a superficial world,” shares principal songwriter Max Keyes. “It takes on the perspective of someone navigating these things with blind confidence and the hubris that brings. It’s not judgmental, and tries to capture the feeling of chasing after something real and authentic in its own way, even if it’s in a completely fake and frivolous world or social scene.”

For I Wish I Was A Rat Keyes collaborated with veterans Lena Farr-Morrissey (bass, vocals), Jordan Mang (guitar), Kyle McCollum (guitar), and Daniel Byington (drums). “They ended up taking on a life of their own,” he explains, “that’s a little scary but also thrilling to me.” Keyes and the group enlisted producer JooJoo Ashworth (Corridor, SASAMI, Automatic) and decamped to The Unknown, the legendary Anacortes studio Phil Elverum helped construct in an abandoned church.

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