Cole Cuchna

It's pointing out that fat accumulates when people eat it.

The same kind of thing is happening at the beginning of Veritas Quo.

Even when you know what you're hearing are upbeats, unless you're a trained musician, it's almost impossible to hear them as such.

That is until the drums enter and force your brain to reinterpret.

Now what's cool about the syncopation in Veritas Quo is that not only are we getting pushed syncopation in the bass, playing just before the downbeat of the kick drum, the melody is also pushed, but it starts just after the kick drum, not before it.

This results in these concentrated groups of syncopation, where we hear the bass, then the kick, then the melody in rapid succession, with no two elements exactly synced.

So instead of them starting all together like this, they play in rapid succession like this.

Like Voyager, this is for me a big reason why Veritas Quo is so hypnotically addictive.

The gaps between one instrument are always filled by another, creating a kind of interlocking puzzle that our brains can't quite settle into.

And so despite the track having a highly repetitive overall structure, it's this subtle but constant unpredictability that makes it seem like it could go on indefinitely, extending Voyager's sense of drifting through infinite space.

It's an aspect Thoma acknowledged directly in an interview with The Face, describing Verdi's quote as quote, the loss of time and reality and space and time.

Space continuum.

A void.

Like Voyager, the title Veritas Quo also ties into the song's sense of an endless journey, albeit in a more abstract way.

It's a play on the Latin phrase quo vadis, meaning, where are you going?

An open-ended philosophical question that mirrors the song's introspective, contemplative, and almost meditative quality.

However, there is also a more light-hearted reading of the title.

Because Verdi's quo sounds a lot like very disco.

And if you flip very disco around the same way quo vadis is reversed, you get disco very.

Put those two words together and they form the word discovery.