One of the songs we kept coming back to during our initial jamming sessions was Smashing Pumpkin's Tonight Tonight, which formed the genesis of the starting riff. We didn't know where to go from there, but there was always a conscious effort to veer away from conventional pop structure. So in response to this, we decided to see how we could try to keep progressing into a different movement. What came out of it was a mashup of all the genres that we were both listening to quite intensively at the time, but just as exciting was that this progression of moods and dynamics with minimal words ended up telling us a far richer narrative than we first expected. And that was the first glimpse at the sound that would define us as as a musical unit.

Masbro | The Riot (Demo).MP3

So the initial idea of this song came to us, as you guessed it, in the middle of a storm while we were jamming on the void deck somewhere in Eunos. It started out with Ray's riff and the rest kind of fell in place quite easily in a straightforward rock tune. I wish I could tell you that was where we left it, but it wouldn't be another 8 months, 3 major overhauls (including a complete overhaul of the original riff that started it all), and countless tweaks before we could call it a day. The last 2 incarnations that came before this had some elements that we liked in one part of the song but didn't like in another, so like Frankenstein's monster we kind of mashed the 2 together and it only came alive then. If inspiration was a horse, we sure flogged it to death and back to life again.

Masbro is
Jeremy Hu
Ray Kohar

Masbro | Stormriding (First Mix)

Ray brought this tune almost fully formed to a jam session one day and listening to it was quite simply, without sounding too over the top here, a cathartic moment. After I wrote my part in and put it all together, suddenly all the songs that we wrote and rewrote and scrapped made sense. They were the 100 chops of the axe to the tree that amounted to the final strike that finally downed the perennial hurdle of uninspired writing, the next step in the evolution of our sound, that is Godspeed. It was technically challenging, it was laden with glorious hooks, and it was indisputably fun as heck to play. Over and over again. Masbro has found its footing.

Masbro | Godspeed (First Mix)

An original instrumental piece. Influenced by math rock, folk and classical music, and the liberating rush of throwing everything familiar out the window, this is an attempt to push and stretch how far what just 2 guitars can achieve. Enjoy.

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