A lot has changed in Danburry’s life since he started playing shows and touring many years ago. He now owns and operates a barbershop in downtown Provo (It is legit, I can testify.), and no longer performs live. And now, on The First Pillar, he employs the use of incredibly long titles for his songs, and he goes deep on the emotional spectrum, as well.
“There's a lot of feelings that go unsaid and remain pent up; this EP kind of represents those feelings and thoughts in the best manner I am able. It's very defensive and reactionary to a sensitivity that I've never seemed able to shake throughout my life and constantly struggle with,” Danburry says.
He says that the last track on the EP is an obvious simplification of the overall
theme of the EP.
There will not be a release show. You can download the album here for free.
Danburry talks about two songs from The First Pillar:
"Jennifer Connelly, or Fools Mock but They Shall Mourn"
Of all the
songs that I prepared for the up-and-coming, full-length-album release
(coming this September) this one was the hardest to pull from off
said record. Jay Henderson helped produce some of the songs ,and on
this one in particular he made a noticeable difference; it was
actually a lot noisier initially and probably off-putting. He laid
down some electric guitar that really sounds nice, and Jesse
Quebbeman-Turley and Tyler Osmond played drums and bass and, in my
opinion, they really made this song what it is. There are generally so
many people who deserve credit for how a song ends up sounding that
never get it. Michael Greene mixed it beautifully and Carl Saff
mastered it.
"Jerry Spinelli and Patricia Polacco or Every moment of every day we
are faced with the decision as to whether we will continue doing what
we are doing or choose a different way to do things. This,
essentially, means that it is also our fault when..."
My voice has
never had a harder time hitting the right notes, I'm a bit nervous
that this particular song will be misinterpreted; not that I can help
it, of course. Lyrically, this song touches on a lot of how I feel and
what I think about humanity. One aspect of that is how we objectify
and dehumanize others rather than take the time to try and talk things
through.