Song Feature: Waverunner
A new single about consciousness a la Alan Watts
The math rock band, Job Creators, has been around since 2012. It’s a band with a bassist (me) and one of my best friends, drummer and synth guru Tim Winslow. We’re two people who have known each other since third grade. Starting in the Boston area, we put enough material together from our Irish pub sets and old carpeted pool halls to release our first mixtape, NSFW, in 2015. That’s when I moved to New York City and we began our long-distance band relationship.
By 2016, we had a residency at Pianos in Lower East Side. We even got to play on the day of Trump’s election. The crowd, safe to say, was distracted. As Tim recalls:
“That was a weird one… It was generally a weird time to be alive.”
In 2017, we released our EP, Systems Online, an album about spiritual recovery and, as Tim explains, “becoming human in the digital age,” Dream Harvest, our first full-length album, launched in April 2020. Faced with lockdowns and the absence of social gatherings and music venues everywhere, we wracked our brains trying to figure out how to host a listening party on Twitch to share the album release with the world. Tim even mailed out fifty albums during the pandemic in hopes of getting reviewed by music journalists - leaving the safety of his home to brave the dangers of the air to mail albums to office buildings that would be empty for another 18 months.
By the end of 2020, we got featured on Spotify playlists, NYC-area playlists, and the biggest math rock playlist on Spotify. All without leaving our seats!
Enter the Love Monster
Every album reflects the journeys we go on as individuals and as a band. “Our lives are vessels for the music,” Tim says when he’s feeling dramatic. Blaise encourages him, adding: “People think music comes from them. It only comes through them.” Our life philosophy as a band is a language we are spending a lifetime decoding, discovering new philosophies, prophecies, and lessons in the music sometimes years after the album is complete. In Sytems Online, we explored the robotic mechanics of confidence and loss in an age where lives have become digitized. “Systems was really about how our emotions and perceptions have had to adapt to a post-iPhone world,” Tim explains. “I can’t wait to be interviewed as the last generation that remembers the days before smartphones.”
Dream Harvest (2020) is about the natural cycles of dreams as we plant them, nurture them, and ultimately harvest something that is often much different than what we expected. When Tim was asked for comment or contribution for this description, he asked, “What did Blaise write? Sometimes, you have to let go of things to make things in a band work.”
In our third studio release, Love Monster (Spring 2023), the music expresses experiencing love as a vast and myriad ocean and the entanglements that come with it. Today, we’re excited to announce that we are releasing our first single from Love Monster: “Waverunner,” a release we’re celebrating with a performance tonight at Berlin Under A in East Village (12/15) and Flat Burger Society in Pittsfield, MA (12/17). We couldn’t have done this without the dedication of Jesse Russell (recording and production beyond all expectations) and Alex Allinson (mixing and mastering divinely) and, of course, our wonderful album artist Alexander Naughton, who inspired us as much as, hopefully, the music inspired him. For more of Alexander’s amazing art pieces, check out our best friend Erik Hoel, licensed Substack Man and incredible author of The Intrinsic Perspective.
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Waverunner: The Origin Story
Tim started “Waverunner” with a synthesizer riff on New Year’s Eve 2019 after recently losing his job. He felt something closing on him and wanted to break free of the spiral. As he describes it:
Waverunner was created with a sense of upset optimism.
“Waverunner” is informed with a sample from philosopher Alan Watts about consciousness. Consciousness, like love, as we try to illustrate with the music, is an ocean. “Waverunner” represents the recognition of what lies behind us, what lies ahead, and pushes us forward to believe in the now of what we love and what we live to love.
A nice distillation of the band's purpose and passions - with some memorable autobiographical detail woven in 🤌