"History" from Tower Defense's upcoming EP Stay Inside, coming 25 Mar 2016 on YK Records.

"History"

Stay Inside, the five-song EP from Nashville band Tower Defense. Available 25 Mar 2016 on YK Records

"Camelback"

"Management"

"Glyphs" from Stay Inside, the five-song EP from Nashville band Tower Defense. Available 25 Mar 2016 on YK Records

"Glyphs"

Title track from Stay Inside, the five-song EP from Nashville band Tower Defense. Available 25 Mar 2016 on YK Records

"Stay Inside"

Notes from bassist/vocalist Mike Shepherd:

"Not Safe" was a song that we recorded during the sessions for Stay Inside at Battle Tapes in 2015. Like a lot of the songs on that record, Jereme and I collaborated on the music, and then I wrote the melody and lyrics. 

Lyrically, I was trying to play off of some lyrics that I wrote for an Apollo Up song, "Even If You Don't Die," as well as the lyrics to a different AU song, "Custom Critical," basically sewing those songs together narratively. The melody was tricky, though, and it wasn't much fun to play. 

The rest of the band indulged me in recording it for posterity, and I secretly hoped it might turn out good enough to include on the record,  but we couldn't get a vocal take we liked, and it just didn't match the tone of the other five songs on the EP. 

I still kinda love this song, though. The big, weird chords that Currey and I were able to build in the verses, and the tremolo on the chorus, plus some of Jereme's most muscular playing from those sessions. Anyway, I hope y'all dig it!

"Not Safe" by Tower Defense [outtake from Stay Inside sessions]

"The Lottery" from the forthcoming as-yet-untitled LP from Tower Defense. Rough mix, unmastered. Recorded at Battle Tapes by Alicia Bognanno. Mixed by Jay Leo Phillips.

Tower Defense, "The Lottery" (ROUGH)

"The Actor" from "Mind The Menagerie", the forthcoming LP from Tower Defense. Unmastered. Recorded at Battle Tapes by Alicia Bognanno. Mixed by Jay Leo Phillips.

Tower Defense, "The Actor" (unmastered)

"The Register" from "Mind The Menagerie", the forthcoming LP from Tower Defense. Unmastered. Recorded at Battle Tapes by Alicia Bognanno. Mixed by Jay Leo Phillips.

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