White Line Fever

White Line Fever was written back in 1998, during a period when Lunatic Calm was spending a lot of time on the road, particularly across the US. We’d just come off a couple of long tours with The Crystal Method, and the experience of crisscrossing vast stretches of highway left a real imprint on us.

This track was born from that headspace - the mental and physical blur of long-distance travel, the hypnotic pull of the white lines, the detachment that can creep in after weeks on the move. It’s one of the few fully vocal tracks from the Lunatic Calm archives, a proper song, and to this day I find it strange that it didn’t make the final cut for the Breaking Point album. It’s hooky, it hits hard, and it has something to say.

The track opens with genuine CB radio recordings we captured while stuck in gridlock on a highway somewhere. A man was threatening to jump from an overpass, and the chatter between the truckers wasn’t about concern for his wellbeing - it was frustration over the delay. That moment stuck with me. It said something uncomfortable about disconnection and desensitization, and that tone shaped the track.

White Line Fever is as much about that moment as it is about the relentless pace of life on tour - the surreal in-betweens, the emotional dislocation, and the strange headspace you enter after countless nights on the road.

This one’s for the night drivers, the highway ghosts, the ones who know what it means to keep moving when the world blurs around you.