"This was my initial demo of “Dark Matter.” The music on the track comes from an early Keith instrumental recording from 2005 (from the same album as his version of “Killed The Duke Of Earl”) called “Don’t Steal His Breath.” It has long been one of my favorite songs Keith has ever recorded so I was eager to resurrect it for Darklife. In 2020, prior to the main Darklife sessions, I tried to record my own version of it with piano and synth but I didn’t like the way it sounded, so I didn’t have a demo of it when we all got together. But in 2021, I decided to just write lyrics and record myself singing over an mp3 of “Don’t Steal His Breath,” which is what this is. I sent this file to Keith and he completely overhauled the song, totally removing his original 2005 recording from the mix. When we all got together for the final sessions in February 2022, we added a short, distorted clip of the original recording back into the song to pay homage to the original recording." - Tech

"I wrote the lead melody here as a vocal part, but for whatever reason never actually recorded vocals - I just had the lines floating around in my head since 2005. When Tech added new lyrics for Darklife, I suddenly realized that they had replaced my original words, even though I tried to recall them they had finally slipped out of memory." - Keith