The 7 current members who makeup the Midwest Avengers are equal parts treble clef and comic book, skate park and gospel choir, drumline and beat box, headbanger and hip hop. Their latest single “Love On Fire” started off in rehearsals as a funky little messing around diddy and became a full blown rap-rock centerpiece after it just sort of clicked for everyone. For this episode Alex Saint Cin, at Lighthouse Studios, gave me every last file he had from his sessions (just to punish me i guess) everything from the mic underneath the snare drum to the uncompressed vocal ad libs - we’re talking over 125 tracks total. (I used about 70. More on that some other time.)

This podcast is a song deconstruction documentary about songwriting. What is a song deconstruction documentary? It where an artist picks a song of theirs, shares all the files that make up that song, and talk about the varies pieces. It’s a detailed look at the writing and recording of a song and the creative process behind it. Using isolated instrument and vocal tracks called multitrack stems, supplied by the recording studio, along with personal reflections from the artists themselves, Songs Out Loud breaks it down -- instrument by instrument, lyric by lyric, and beat by beat.