Behind The Tracks: The Blame - Breathe Again (Single) (2026)

Breathe Again comes from the band using more experimental methods of songwriting; the original draft started from James ideas with the synths, drums, and some guitars, which was expanded upon by Jonny and Alex after being shown it. The core synth melody leads the track; we all tried to have the instruments complement that, hence the noticeable lack of bigger block chords, which are normally present in our other songs, having the rhythm guitar lead the way In that aspect.

We took a lot of inspiration on this track from bands like Daft punk and the Voidz, specifically songs like instant crush, something about us and human sadness you can probably hear the influence from some of these in parts featuring things like the distorted heavy fuzz guitars and the heavily melodic vocals utilising a vocoder effects pedal throughout.

The final mix took a while to get to, as there have been multiple versions of this song with different guitar parts and vocal melodies, although the structure has mostly remained the same, as we got that down from the first listen through with all of us. the hard part was fine tuning the vocal melodies and backing vocals to sit within the songs and help compliment the synth which were all now quite happy with the way it turned out.

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