This is the fifth track of the WAЯ album officially released on 26th February 2021. A live band version of song was performed for the first time at Rockfield Studios, Wales and broadcast as a premiere on The Alarm Central platform on 27th February 2021.



Lee : Another song that stands out for me – ‘Crush.’ If you can give us some insight into that track Mike.
Mike: Yeah, to be honest, it sort of started quite innocently in a way. I was messing around with the guitar one morning. I come up with this guitar riff in the song, and I thought this could lead somewhere. When I was singing the song, I thought it’s quite a rock line, and I could maybe arrange it slightly like an AC/DC number or something. So I started singing the chorus to myself, and the words I had were, “bust your balls” (laughing). That’s what probably made me think of AC/DC. That just came out while I was working. ‘I’m going to bust your balls!!’ – oh, I can’t say that that’s not right for now. I went for a walk in the woods. I was playing the words over and over in my mind. What can replace ‘bust’, that can still have a really strong connection to the melody, still have that force, and that you can really throw it out vocally, that it carries the sort of feeling of the song and somewhere in the woods the word was playing over and over again. ‘Trust’ then ‘crush’, and I thought I could make that word work. Yeah, ‘crush.’ I could hear the whole rest of the song straight away, woosh, the door of perception had opened as they say, and I was there. “Crush your movement / crush our human spirit.” It just felt like we’d all been crushed, weighed down by the lock-down. So I thought we can push back against that and actually say we’re not going to lose our dignity. We’re not going to lose our humanity or tolerance. We’re not going to be crushed by the weight of the isolation we’ve all been placed in. – From an Interview between Lee Campbell and Mike Peters for XSNoise.com website 31st March 2021

WAЯ album recording details
Running length : 3:43
Written by : Mike Peters

Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Harmonica
Steve “Smiley” Barnard – Drums, Percussion
James Stevenson – Electric Guitar
George Williams – Bass Guitar, Keyboards
Jules Jones Peters – Piano, Keyboards

Produced and Mixed by George Williams
Recorded at Crusader Studio, Dyseth, Wales, Sunshine Corner Studios, Fleet England, Alycat Studios, Blackpool, England, Pink Gun Studio, London, England
Mixed by George Williams at Rock Hard Studios, Blackpool
Mastered by Howie Weinberg in Los Angeles

(Page updated 26/05/2021)