'Imperfect' started life as just a couple of riffs I would screw around with at practice a good few years back. I always wanted to do more with it but never quite felt I had progressed as a player enough to finally get the point across. However, with the "Animi" album, I came back to this and had a totally fresh feel for it.

I can kind of explain its sound by the subject matter within the album, and where this track fits in on this album. The story of Animi (Minds) is one of human incompatibility. We are a sort of failed experiment and have basically caused nature itself to turn on us; regretting ever having let us exist.

The earlier tracks on the album tell the birth of human kind and its unrelenting inability to control its anger and imperfections. 'Imperfect' is the 3rd track on the album and delves in to how Humanity uses aggression to get ahead in life.

People have found it is quicker and easier to achieve what they want by stepping on others, thus being selfish and impulsive. People within the lore of this album, have demons inside their heads, telling them to give into temptation in order to achieve their wants and desires. Unfortunately we have reached a point where the only way to be free of these demons is to pass away from this life.

The world begins to think about turning against us having seen that we are unable to change; Despite any progress we have made and all the advances in technology, we have brought forward our primitive way of looking at things e.g. "if you do not believe what I believe, you are wrong, and I am better than you" (Sounds like most people now days, haha).

The whole concept I guess is influenced by the same sort of ideas and mythology you would find behind films like "Princess Mononoke" or "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", but less magical, more spacey�but basically, the universe fights back.

By the end of this track, we are begging for a second chance.