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the other side of you (2020 revision)

from THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU by AIMEE LAY

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This revisioned version of “The Other Side Of You” was newly inspired by the pandemic, lockdowns, collective grief, and current insanity inducing war against truth, fight for social injustice, political and ideological divide... as well as Joey Malloy from Remove Records in Detroit , MI for recently discovering my album during the pandemic and contacting me to do an interview about it :) The original was recorded before ever playing it live and when we started to play it live my brother Al Lay came up with a bass line for it that I deeply regretted was not on the original. So I recorded Al playing the bass line sometime last year and then when the lockdown started, I messed around and decided to try to record myself playing drums to it. I also cranked the levels on the original super eerie atmospheric wah and pog feedback guitar played by my longtime friend Clifton Weaver. Mickey Wolf later helped me to finalize the concept of the video and added his creative interpretation. It was originally written about trying to understand someone close to me who was experiencing psychosis and who “lost their mind” and grip on "reality". But it's also somewhat about my own inner madness at times trying to find my way in this world with all the loss and struggle for a search for meaning within it all and the terror that comes when coming face to face with that "shadow" side of both our own psyche as well as another’s. It later dawned on me that this song echoed the current state of this country’s near civil war moment, polarizations throughout the world, the collective experience of lunacy and intense introspection induced by the lockdowns, and ultimately our maddening inability to somehow understand or even tolerate the opposing point of view of a certain person or group, culture, party or religion, etc ... yet how on either the macro or the micro level, it ultimately always does boil down to or stem from interpersonal relationships in the end. So i felt this song was relevant in a whole new way, giving me a reason to finally release what i feel is a much better, fully realized version than the original released on Respectful Lust Records & Lolipop Records.

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from THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU, released February 22, 2018

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AIMEE LAY Los Angeles, California

“Aimee Lay can rock; but, most notably for me, she has a tendency to wrap her voice around my heart and ease it’s fluttered rhythm. I then feel as though I’ve wandered over icy city streets with her, in search of a hot cup of coffee, warm conversation, and a cigarette.””
— Dirty Jeff, DIRTY HIPPIE RADIO
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