This is a punk rock song written in the wake of the glorious train-wreck that was 2020. The song's steady driving beat and ever intensifying bite expresses a sense of hope and resolve to help fight the good fight, whatever that may be. Like many, we found ourselves knocked down and humbled last year, but we have hope the world will come out of it a better place. Much love

Must Be A Cop

b-side to our latest single, "Must Be a Cop" - 

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Burn the Witches

Spencer Thomson of Moon Taxi remixed our track "Garth", and we love it.

Garth ST

Garth ST (Spencer Thomson remix)

Liked to Party

Last year we found ourselves writing darker songs than we'd ever explored before. "Ancient One" is one of them - a sort that sonically and lyrically explores the primitive human and the extent that we're still influenced by those primal parts of ourselves. This is our fourth single from our LP, "Full-On Monet," out 1/22/22.

Ancient One

A toxic meditation in the age of the apocalypse.

Wishbone

Bois

Lo-Fi bedroom pop from Oklahoma City / Washington DC. 

Aikin

Two songs we've had in the chamber for a while. Danny and I recorded most of "Getty" over a cold November weekend at some AirBnB house in Nashville. Though Danny wouldn't say it, I suspect that "Phoenix" might be about the awkward and exciting process of learning how to write songs with somebody new. I didn't write the lyrics, but I like to think it's sort of about the process of collaborating - the joys and fears of the whole thing.

Phoenix

Getty

We've written a number of NBA/OKC related songs, including a song about when Serge went down in the Western Conference Finals. Neither of these songs are about the NBA. However, the GOAT diction makes it into one of Danny's songs here. I'm not sure who the GOAT is in this song, though. "Some Surf" was one of the five songs we recorded - at least in part - last November in Nashville, and I'm really happy we shaped it up into publishable form.

Some Surf

GOAT

Our 1st album, GOLDEN YEAR, is coming out on July 2. Here's a preview of what it's gonna sound like. 

Photo cred: Danny's wife while we were snorkeling in Punta Cana, DR.

Stay Gold

ABOUT THE SONG: Danny and I are constantly buying gear. I bought this tiny 5w Kay amp off Ebay, and to my surprise the amp had this massive crunchy guitar sound. So we started writing some songs that tried to tap into our nostalgic middle school pop punk days. We matched it up with the Alesis HR-16, the New Order drum sound. I sorta feel like this song took us in a new direction from 'Golden Year,' still fun but does the summery feel in a new way. 

LYRICS: 
take another inch off 
it’s all for a good cause 
swept into a pile on the floor 

sure, we never have much 
that’s been the intention 
always leave them thirsting for more 

forgive me, I’ll never love again 
it takes awhile for sad sacks to fit in 

sweating as she trots out 
looking kinda hot now 
hows it gonna benefit me? 

set your mind on lockdown 
wait for them to dropout 
swoop in if it feels meant to be 

setting yourself up to fall 
is better than not trying at all 
always looking out for more 
saw you write your name on the door



Chewy

This song is the first song Danny and I truly finished together since I moved back to OKC. We sat on my Mesta Park quadplex balcony one hot day and started strumming this summery guitar part. At one point, I said, "we need a really Beach Boys-esque melody here" and Danny just started singing "Barbara Ann" which actually became the vocal rhythm of the song. 

The song felt like it was going to be a pretty clean surfy continuation of Golden Year, but then Tom Bishop suggested we should cover Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge." While practicing for NMF we would go into these poorly executed takes of the song and ended up shelving the idea. However, I think Devo made its way into this song - the drum beats, synths, and pre-verse turnaround have a Mark Mothersbaugh-type vibe that I dig. Zach Zeller came over for about twenty minutes and added some of the best parts of the song - the bass line, the guitar solo, and the synth hook all came from the twenty minutes he came by.

Lastly, the lyrics for "Neuromancer" are loosely inspired by William Gibson's book of the same title. That's all the references to VR cowboys and stuff. These are some of my favorite lyrics we've ever written.

LYRICS:
meatspace dandy blowin in the wind
cowboy 2.0 night dreamin
VR boys fly fast as you can
get around, get around, hip to your man

oh my lands, there goes another one
slip some green, gift in the minibar
cheap hotel next to stadium
all bout bout, all bout the benjamins

deadbeat dad, digital family
don't be sad, it's just reality

boss level girl, think she's the one
holograph card, first edition
spin your head to see her face
wondering how her chapstick tastes

deadbeat mom, digital family
CD-ROM, that's just reality

deadbeat kids, all in the family
flip your lids, it's just reality
deadbeat dad, digital family
don't be sad, it's just reality


Neuromancer

Lost Jam

Recorded for a cassette release in collaboration with OBNEAC of Norman, Oklahoma.

See obneac.bandcamp.com for more of that sweet stuff

No One's Dreaming

vaya con dios, bra

beautiful s*n in the gloom of home 
rearranging each one of her chromosomes 
1010001100 
perfect specimen 

coming undone at the seams and stoned 
still she rides to the sun 
wild west hero 

i know 
i know 
another night alone 
round a blazing fire 

oh no 
oh no 
where'd everybody go? 
guess i'll let you know 

oh no 
i know 
another night alone 
stay as cool as you are
credits
released September 28, 2018 
written and recorded by wil norton and danny davis 

+ vocals by lacey norton

Beautiful Son

listen on spotify here: open.spotify.com/track/2bN6To5ipOH6yjYcdujDpt 

ABOUT "MEXICO"
Last summer, I moved to Costa Rica on this ridiculous housesitting job where I ended up working a little bit but mostly surfed and played poker with locals. It was the best time of our lives, but it wrecked us. Because I eventually moved back to OKC and settled back into my cubicle, and I began to feel disillusioned about days spent in cubes working 9-5s with no end in sight. “Mexico” is an escapist fantasy love song dedicated to the dream of moving to a coastal town: to be poor and happy together. Let’s move to Mexico, baby.

LYRICS
we're keepin' in 
to keep 'em out 
do it again? she said "without any doubt," 
you know I want you 

you took the words 
right out my mouth 
do it again? I said "without any doubt," 
you know I want you, too 

and i'll be where you'll be 

she said, "I can't see through it 
but we could find ourselves a beach house in Mexico" 
I'm so down 

I could run around and never give you the time 
How come every time we do this I lose my mind?

Mexico

Preorder the album at www.husbandsokc.bandcamp.com !

a song about death in the sunshine - the choices we make to "live" or to "die" - the inherent tension between a life we don't want and killing things off to make us feel alive.

After the Gold Rush Party

Culebra

'3AM' is our 2nd single off our 2nd LP, 'After the Gold Rush Party,' out January 2020. 

WIL: I've loved '3AM' since 2015 when Danny first put it on Dropbox. '3AM' is about persistence: we've come into "realer" jobs, families have gotten more complicated, & we're still finding time to write music in the nooks & crannies of our life. '3AM' is about that. 

DANNY: '3AM' is about obstacles & having friends you trust to help carry that weight. Working together, late at night even, to reach the goal.

Try Not To Worry

You can't miss it. First thing you see in Yukon, Oklahoma is the water tower that proudly reads "YUKON: HOME OF GARTH BROOKS." Danny grew up in this smallish town, cruising Garth Brooks Boulevard, aka, Main Street, USA. This song's about living in the shadow of greatness, transcending the small-town mindset, and the sensation of cruising the main drag and feeling mixed emotions of nostalgia, joy, ennui. Roll down the windows: here's "Garth," your sweetly melancholy homecoming late-summer jam.

Garth

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