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Video made by Sophia Spiegel
All footage public domain
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Same Damn Door is a driving, synthy, punky digression from Dilly’s typical smooth, neosoul style. It is about how foolish it is to pursue success with too much ambition. It was written by founder and lead singer of Dilly, Sophia Spiegel, after her engineer and coproducer, Adam Tucker, told her to write a short, silly song without thinking too hard about it. They were having a conversation about the political landscape of the music industry, how serious everything felt at the time, and how odd it is that people worked so hard to perform and release to just be in meaningful, playful spaces with other people.

It opens with a high BPM groove laid down by Dilly drummer Ben Ehrlich. Slowly, other voices trickle in to accompany Sophia’s angry diatribe. Maxwell Voda creeps in with a soon-to-be roaring bass groove, doubled by a thrumming synth that gets equally as deafening. Levi Schwartzberg joins in with his sultry Rhodes chords, and so does Sophia with her melodious guitar. Mitch Van Laar and Denny Carlson enter the stream of crescendoing noises with snaking, chromatic horn lines, until the whole band drops out for Sophia’s jaded conclusion to her angry rant: “Is a door that leads to heaven just the same damn door that leads to hell?” Thus commences a song that, within the span of just 3 minutes, will make banging your fists, stomping your feet, and maybe even quitting your job all too irresistible.
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MUSIC and LYRICS by SOPHIA SPIEGEL
PRODUCED by BEN EHRLICH, SOPHIA SPIEGEL, and ADAM TUCKER
PERFORMED BY:
DENNY CARLSON on alto saxophone
BEN EHRLICH on drums and auxiliary percussion LEVI SCHWARTZBERG on keys
SOPHIA SPIEGEL on vocals, guitar, and synth MITCH VAN LAAR on trumpet

MAXWELL VODA on bass
RECORDED by BEN EHRLICH and ADAM TUCKER
MIXED by BEN EHRLICH, SOPHIA SPIEGEL, and ADAM TUCKER
MASTERED by ADAM TUCKER at SIGNATURETONE RECORDING in MINNEAPOLIS, MN