“House on fire” is the first track off of my next album ‘Ghostwater’. It’s texturally a departure from some of the album and a lot of my previous songs. It consists of heavily looped vocals, with keyboards/synth, piano and clarinets layered over them.
It invokes, I hope, something haunted. I wont go into it too much. I love it a lot and I hope you do too. The lyrics are below. The link to download is above.
"…Darling, wasn’t this our dream? To live in a haunted house, on the cliffs, overlooking the sea. Well everyday, the coastline is shrinking. While you and me are growing farther apart. I used to think the dream was ours…"
In the hard stretches of one of the many heat-waves this summer, I wrote Sunscreen. It remains one of my favorites as it’s somewhat punchier/more accessible than some of my other work on the album.
It was also the first song I recorded with found-sound sampled beats (mostly me kicking things, hitting things or clapping). The lyrics are simple and very straight forward. Beyond that, it’s all interwoven guitars and vocals. I play everything on this song (as well as the whole album).
Milagros grew out of a frustrated period of writer’s block and, though five songs long, as a running length of a short LP (30+ minutes). I consider it to be a full album in its pacing, structure and pieces. I am very happy with the end result and I hope that you enjoy it as well.
Let me know what you think!
A special thanks again to divespell who helped me come up with the album title. Go follow him.
The tracklisting (with links to the previous songs) is below:
Chocolate is the second song off of Milargos (I've already posted two, Witnesses and Halloween, from the album already). It's heavier sonically than my previous few releases. The guitars crunch, which is something they don't typically do in my music.
Dynamically, I suppose, it carries the heavier post-rock influence with a bit more feedback and distortion. I've been told by a friend that the piece is very fitting for summer. His words were that it "melts" with summer. If this is true, I figured it's fitting to post it now before it gets cooler (wishful thinking). Lyrically, I find myself reaching back to previous drama in other (not current) relationships. Similarly, this also fits the thematic concept of "summer".
Here for you, fair tumblrites, is a lot of guitars, drums, feedback and melodrama, served up the only way I know how.
The lyrics are below. To download the song, click the linked title above.
…burned ever book I had and every picture of me in the trail that lead to the woods on a pile on an abandoned box spring
the trains rolled on the kids stayed out too late and I waited like I used to on sandlewood and it started to rain
I tried to make a real end to the trails on route one that we left
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