For this week’s episode of BackStory, Texas’ Love Inks took a moment to tell us the story behind their new single “Blackeye” off their upcoming album, E.S.P., due to drop on May 10.

blackeye is a simple song. it was the band’s first song, and it utilizes the theory that every instrument and person will be essential to the sound, i.e. if they are missing from the equation then the song is not possible to be played. there’s really only a bass guitar, guitar and vocal (we later added a drum machine). so, it’s a simple song which means you can look at it in two ways: one, there’s no depth, it’s brainless, meaningless bullshit and the other, which i prefer, that it’s more difficult to say a lot with very little and when you pull it off it can be more graceful.

the listener can choose what they want. some people have to talk and talk to get their point across (kind of like what i’m doing right now), and some people think and mull it over forever, and you may see them as quiet weirdos, but when they do speak they use exact wording and express themselves directly. my aunt told me she got this song stuck in her head the other day and that the next time she saw me she was going to give me a blackeye for it.

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