The Way That You Used To speaks to the inevitability of change. Painful, challenging and often unwelcome, change allows us to grow and gain a deeper understanding of who we really are. Honesty and acceptance around a chapter's end is ultimately for the best.
The chorus for the song came to Dan in the middle of the night while driving towards a difficult conversation. Amid doubt and questions around a failing relationship (where things went wrong? What could have been done differently?), a disarming honesty and awareness is present; that despite our best intentions, sometimes the best thing to do is to go our separate ways.
The Way That You Used To was recorded at Roundhead Studios in Auckland, produced and mixed by award-winning mix engineer, Simon Gooding and supported by NZonAir.