The track that really set the tone of what Newage would be. This was probably the first song to come out from experimenting with the Roland mc-303 groovebox I'd acquired. This was me learning how to programme a drum section upon which the rest of the instrumentation was layered.
The song writing process was markedly different from that used previously on the "Painted Pantomime" songs. Here I would press some buttons and shape some chords on the groovebox, then sequence these together, lastly applying any keyboard riffs or hooks. This dark menacing number is probably the best of these songs and the darker tone inspired the more social form of lyric I tried to apply to the album as a whole.
This City Life is a view on our urban, industrialized lifestyle and touches on our obsession with material wealth, celebrity and the inevitable consequences of this.