BSPH: Eat the Day - Dada

How about something completely different?

"Dada" is a composition by the Wes Borland's band Eat the Day. It is trailing, circling jam that meanders with a menacing grimace but without any particular intention. However, it eventually lashes out its nondescript frustration and leaves you alone.

It is built around a bass riff that sonically is very reminiscent of a rocking hobby-horse (also known as Dada). The riff goes back and forth and keeps everything together.

And then it turns out that this hobby-horse is actually a horse of the horseman of the apocalypse and it goes straight to the fiery depths of hell. And then it turns out that it is pretty much the same as the previous place which is at the very least very suspicious. In a rather tender, gentle manner. That is the construction of the composition. 

Guitar and drum parts are laced into the bass part as if it was a boot. Drums lurk in the background for the most part before jumping out in a confrontation with a guitar which acted like an annoying fly for the majority of the composition. Guitar zigzags and buzzes around in the verse parts and then straightens out in the chorus parts before trying to collapse entire composition on itself by lashing out in the solo. Bass line pretends that nothing is happening and just goes on but guitar and drums are actively trying to strangle each other.

"Dada" sounds like a sketch for a song - the structure is in place but the vocal part is yet to be added. The composition follows two part structure - verse-chorus repeated two times and then intense variations with more fuzz and intense soloing.

Along with Big Dumb Face and The Damning Well - Eat the Day was one of the side projects Wes Borland had started after he quit Limp Bizkit. Unlike both of aforementioned, Eat the Day never really came to fruition.

There are only a couple of demoes online and barely any information regarding what the project was about. Judging from available music - it was meant to be something like Borland's much later "Glass Machete" album - more atmospheric, impressionist music. "Dada" sets the mood for something and leads you there but ends abruptly on the threshold. That something is left unknowable but open for overthinking.