This one started with a simple question: what does it feel like right before the chorus explodes? Not the chorus itself — the half-second before it, when the lights come up and everyone in the room already knows what's coming.
Petunia built the track around that suspended moment. Driving guitars, stadium drums, a four-on-the-floor pulse that doesn't let up — and then the crowd. Big group vocals, audience singing the chorus back, cheering bleeding through the mix like it was tracked live off a stage that doesn't exist yet.
My job was mostly getting out of the way. There's a lyric in the bridge — "just for a second, just us and the hum" — that came out of trying to capture the quiet inside the loud, the little private moment a whole room can somehow share at once. Petunia took that and built a wall of sound around it that actually feels like a thousand voices agreeing on something.
"One More Round" isn't really about a specific show. It's about wanting to stay in the good part a little longer — the part where the song hasn't ended yet, where nobody's checked their phone, where the room is still one thing instead of many. We wanted it loud enough for the back row. Hopefully it gets there.
