Here's another new song from our forth-coming Autonomous album. This one is sequenced as the album's closing track, a sweet way to say goodbye (before starting the whole thing over again!). We started writing Stop Givin Up On Love over four years ago. It was titled If Not Love and was much slower, with a completely different chorus. However the story behind the lyrics has remained pretty much the same. It's a song I wrote initially about my brother, who was going through a very rough patch, and in it's initial iteration was very slow and a little depressing sounding. We put it away and hardly gave it a thought for years. It was written in the same weekend as our song California, which also started out much slower than it's ended up. At around xmas last year I was going though all the various songs that we'd sketched, recorded, or finished, trying to get a feel for what was going to make up our album. Because I've started writing an...
