From the very first to the very last note, "Float" is the first track I have written solely while being on this year-long trip. The other songs all contain at least a fragment or an idea that I had been carrying with me since before leaving for Iran in May. "Float", on the other hand, was written in a completely different manner. Normally my process involves constantly coming up with guitar themes and chunks of lyrics that I write down or record on my phone. Then, when I have some peace and quiet, I listen to the fragments and I edit them.

Normally this includes erasing as well as adding parts, putting different fragments together and re-writing the lyrics until the end result can be called a song. The reason for having a completely different process with "Float" was that I didn't start writing the song by myself. Lea and I stayed in a hostel in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where we met Hanne and Django from Amsterdam. We ended up spending more than a week together and then met again a few days before leaving Indonesia. It's probably safe to say that out of all the people we met traveling, we clicked with them the most. And the fact that Django was a musician as well obviously fueled the newfound friendship. We spent hours comparing notes on our current musical projects and on all the bands we had founded and closed down in the past.

That one night in Yogyakarta we picked up two guitars and started jamming. After a while we came up with the two picking guitar themes that, when played together, were without a doubt the best result from that session. We spent the next day on some bus where I listened to the recording on my phone while humming the melody of the first part of the song. Looking back it is a shame that we didn't manage to go beyond this point and eventually finish the song. We were just too busy traveling, I guess. Finally I finished the song writing during our stay in Singapore. It took me half a day to work out all the harmonies and write all the lyrics. I wanted the track to work as part of a session: with its long notes and interesting guitar theme it would make a good introduction to the new songs. But I needed a middle part that would lead into "Mine", the song I wanted to follow "Float". This thought led to me adding the resolution and chord change in the middle of the song.