You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishikesh Herway.

Leachers is the moniker of Jack Antonov, a songwriter, multi-instrumented list and producer.

He won two Grammy Awards as a member of the band Fun, and another for his production work on Taylor Swift's album 1989.

He's also co-written songs with St Vincent, Lord, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sia, and more.

In June 2017, Jack Antonov released his second album as Bleachers Gone Now.

In this episode, he breaks down a song from that album called I Miss Those Days.

It traces the process of making it from the original demo to the final song.

I'm Jack Antonov from Bleachers. So the way this started was about an emulator.

Things called the EMU2. It was one of the first sampler systems. It's like a big machine that takes floppy disks.

I put one of the floppy disks in the first album, and I was like,

Hi, I'm Jack Antonov from Bleachers. So the way this started was about an emulator.

Things called the EMU2. It was one of the first sampler systems. It's like a big machine that takes floppy disks.

I put one of the floppy disks in, not knowing what it was, and just held down one D note.

So that is me just holding down a D, and there's this ARP on the emulator playing the piano pattern.

The machine is so from a different time that when you switch between sounds, it takes about 45 to 60 seconds.

The screen literally says this will take a minute.

It's the most unuser-friendly machine that breaks every five seconds.

Basically, whenever I can get it working or on, I'll just hit record and just get as much out as possible.

And then I found this patch on at the sound like Christmas.

That is Christmas to me. Like when you play that, I just get this rush of every Christmas thing in my mind.

I feel so much love and hope in Christmas, and I'm Jewish.

I don't know if people who actually saw it, Christmas feel this way, but I just see it from afar and it's perfect.

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