From the album 'Paradise Hotel' (2019) •
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"I wrote Limit of Love as a way to sort through a quick marriage/divorce I had in 2016. For the choruses, I pulled the lyrics from actual things my ex-wife and I said to each other. I'll leave it to the listener to guess who delivered the most callous lines. The song is basically about how relationships are built on compromise and when two un-compromising people start one, it is by nature doomed. The limit of love is just.
I should mention that I had no knowledge of the James Blake song "Limit To Your Love" while writing. It's a great song. I've heard it since and instantly thought "goddamnit someone has already written this!" It's not quite a coincidence. I'm guessing a lot of folks have felt this specific type of pain.
I wrote the song on piano, made a demo and showed it to Jesse on the drive home from Treefort Music Fest in 2017. He had the idea for the compilation brewing and I think Limit of Love was the first song recorded for it. Eric Ambrosius came in and tracked the drums, piece by piece. Kick for the whole song, then snare, then toms, then cymbals. For a drummer who I think relies heavily on *feel* this kind of mechanical recording was probably not the easiest. The results are great though, and the drums have a kind of processed sound that I really like without quite sacrificing the human behind them.
After drums, I tracked the Wurlitzer electric piano. Jesse made me not use a sustain pedal and play very stabby, staccato. I didn't care for it at the time but again, the results are great. Then we did the whole vocal thing, where I basically got tanked and give it my best while the dudes sit there and say good or bad. That took a couple hours, probably because I kept fucking up the lyrics. Also this song is hard to sing! Lot's of slippery changes and dissonant root notes. Then I had to sing over the choruses again in falsetto. Fuckin Jesse.
The song was finished in pieces with my bandmates Ryan Neighbors (keys), Travis Leipzig (bass), and Casey Burge (guitar) coming in to add their parts. Jesse played on it too. I think he came up with the "George Harrison" guitar walk-up for the end of the verse, which I really dig.
So then the song was done for like two years. I was kind of fighting Jesse about it because I just wanted it to be released. The subject matter was pretty timely/specific and I wanted it out there, resolved and forgotten as quickly as possible. Jesse claimed he would just give me the song so I could release it myself but somehow never got around to handing it over. Looking back, I see how invested he was in the project as a whole and I appreciate his fight to keep the song on the compilation and not give in to my impatience. Sorry for yelling at you at that party Jesse.
The music video was filmed in January 2019 when I was home in Talkeetna, Alaska. I was working through the eventual end of another relationship and although the song was old at that point, it didn't seem off. I basically just sang the song in zero degree weather about 100 times
*somehow we didn’t stick to that plan*
and my friend Nik Zografos cut it together. He also did the video for The We Shared Milk's "Drag" back in the day. He's great."
~ Boone Howard
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