Behind the Song: All Your Love

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All your love is the second track on the record. Close to a year ago, Matt showed me a demo of the song that sounds quite different than the final version. Originally the current pre-chorus part (“All your love I’m never giving up on…”) was the chorus and the verses were completely different.

DEMO ONE:

We both knew we liked parts of the song, but weren’t quite sold. We sat on the scratch demo for a while and let the tune incubate.

A few months went by and Matt had started to think that the verse vocals could be stronger. One night we sat down to casually jam on the tune. I stumbled across the current chorus hook and suggested adding it as an instrumental section. He knew it was catchy, and suggested making it a vocal hook rather than an instrumental hook. The big “All your loooooveee” chorus was born.

We were both stoked on the hook and intertwined it throughout the second demo. I added some bass lines and Matt re-wrote the verses. We both felt like the wordier verses complimented the soaring chorus nicely.

DEMO TWO:

When we went in to the studio to record the tune, our producers had a few ideas to help improve the flow of the jam. We cut the first pre-chorus in half and jumped to the bridge section a bar sooner. Initially I was reluctant to the changes. After hearing a tune one way for a while it’s easy for any changes to sound jarring. This wasn’t the first time that I had encountered this problem, so I kept my mouth shut and sat on the changes for a few days. Ultimately I think the subtle differences added a lot.

STUDIO VERSION: