[Cover photo credit to Brady Lowery]

San Francisco-based electronic duo Host Bodies have been working together for over a decade. Formed in 2013 by James Collector and Nick Hess, the pair have combined guitar driven work with dance and Hip-Hop elements.

Now, Host Bodies have shared “Impossible Goodbyes,” which was mixed and mastered by Producer Count Eldridge (Radiohead, New Order, No Doubt, John Cale). The track brings emotional pull to its dance energy.

James Collector shares about the song:

Impossible Goodbyes started out an idea from an ‘everyday’ creative challenge. I was making a 16-bar drum and bass loop everyday and on that particular day we were shooting footage for the Hourglass video at Ocean Beach. During our break, I went down to the old piano in the garage and sounded out the baseline.

I remember premiering a demo version of the track for the Headroom producer meet-up at Halcyon in San Francisco. There were all these techno and EDM kids there. Nobody else had guitar in their tracks. They didn’t know how to categorize us.  I remember one kid saying he had noticed our kickdrum had different velocities instead of the standard pounding techno kick.

He adds:

To the blown-out speaker, the shuttered venue, the city we can’t leave — here’s a song to say what words cannot. The dance moves no one saw, the unspoken moments snatched by time, the kick drum audible through brick walls. Years compressed into a single night. Familiar faces changed by growth and loss and the costs of ambition. To the ones that got away — this is Impossible Goodbyes.