Burn You Down- This song is the first single from "Manifesto" and despite its odd production, it was the obvious choice. I had the music worked out entirely on an acoustic guitar before anybody else had heard it and it just stuck with me. It didn't matter what lyrics I chose for the chorus; the melody sold it for me. I couldn't get it out of my head, so the rest was just details. A lot of the impact of the verse can be owed to Prodigy's "Spitfire" where the first downbeat just tears your face off, and then there's a lot of space. I wanted to take that idea turn it upside-down.

A cool thing about the guitars on this track is that they were all run through synthesizers. Jim (our guitarist/programmer) and I were a team for this. One of us would play the guitar part and the other would play a countermelody or sweep the envelopes of the synths to create this really unique sound. That's how we did that odd calliope-sounding intro. It's really just a guitar that's shaped by a synth manually, in real-time. That, added on top of samples of horns, hand drums, and raccoons makes this track one of a kind.

Lyrically, this was our answer to a decade of being screwed over by so many people in the record industry; a warning that the tables have turned and this time we're gonna leave them all ablaze in our wake.