Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write?
Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our favourites on the one song that they can’t stop thinking about – in their own words.
Ahead of releasing latest album ‘Flare‘, Chloe Spence of Brighton trio Plantoid talks us through the creation of recent single ‘Dozer‘. Take it away, Chloe…
“Writing ‘Dozer‘ in the studio was a memorable experience for us, it was super fun to write and we were all in high spirits. It began with Louis having a long rhythmic sequence that he’d been wanting to try for a while, but didn’t yet have any melody or chords as such. In fact, all he had was a piece of creased paper with a pattern written down. We all sat in the live room on our writing retreat in Wales, and learnt Louis’ rhythm together.
We went round and round on it for ages, clapping and tapping, cementing it in our brains. Louis initially presented the idea on bass, so when we nailed the part and he brought the kit in, along with the guitars, it turned the whole thing into a relentless, motoric groove, which was so fun to play. The pattern started on a singular note which then gradually developed into the full sequence of ‘Dozer’. We must have jammed that rhythm section by section going A B A B C for hours. Then came the overlapping guitar line melody out of nowhere which was perfect for the hypnotic feel we were going for.
We then thought the song could do with an opposing section so we wrote a weird circus style, blues-esque bridge, loose and strange to add contrast to the high energy of the rest of the song. During this time, Nathan was fiddling with a tape machine he’d just purchased, going through the tapes that came with it. He found some strange classical violin and string sounds and we knew we had to use it in some way. We then decided to reverse it all and add it to the middle section for an extra layer of freakiness! Like you’ve stumbled from the dodgems into a fun house at a fairground.
The rest of the song came together piece by piece over the time of finalising the record, but the initial rhythm we’d learned together stuck as the backbone of the song and set the tone.“ From: https://birthdaycakebreakfast.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/this-one-song-plantoid-on-dozer/
