We are super excited to share with you this amazing track “Social Smoker” by three-piece band Sell by. We enjoy listening to this track till the last second every time we play it. The energy is amazing and the production is polished and sounds very professional. The lyrics are well written and the guitars and drums are outstanding. This track is powerful and really some good stuff to listen to all day long. The vocalist has one of the richest voices we’ve ever heard and his performance on this track is on another level. We love this record and can’t wait to see where this band’s career will go over the coming months. Check it out for yourself and be sure to let us know what you think. Don’t forget to follow Sell by online to stay up to date!
WHAT THE BAND SAYS ABOUT THIS SONG:
“We started writing for sell by. at a particularly turbulent time of our lives, myself (James) and drummer Jamie had recently left a band that was a massive part in both of our lives. This is why we think Social Smoker has a sort of cathartic energy about it. We’ve deemed the song a “bedroom banger” and often visualise angry teens screaming it from the confines of their room.
The song is written about (and for) the sort of people that come to life in the smoking area of a club. The people that don’t fit in, but really try to. We really wanted to make an angsty record and tried to encapsulate as many 2000’s post grunge, pop punk influences as possible. At the time of writing / recording we were listening to a lot of Green Day, Biffy Clyro and early Foo Fighters.
Having spent a lot of time in different studios around the country with our former band, we really needed to feel at home in the recording of this song. We contacted an old producer of ours that we have a close connection to and got straight in the studio a few days after. Recording Social Smoker felt like a release for us, everything we wanted to write about and sound like, just poured into that session and we really know that we have something that people can relate to.”
