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I Will Wait - Mumford and Sons (cover)

New cover. Lovely song by Feist from the album Metals. Enjoy :-)

Cicadas And Gulls - Feist (cover)

St. Vincent - 'Cruel'

"For the Boy Who Moved Away" is from EDJ's forthcoming self-titled debut.

Out 8/5/2014 through Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysound.co)

Of the new record, Eric says:

In January of 2014 I decided to sit down and write an album’s worth of songs all over the course of a few weeks, which is something I had never done before.

Some were done at home during an unseasonably cold Portland winter, some in Boonville, California (a town in the wine-and-weed producing part of Mendocino County where they also have their own language,’Boontling’), and some in Joshua Tree, a place where people have always sought inspiration.

It had always taken a long time for me to write songs – and when one would finally come to me I’d put some broad concepts down on paper, find a nice melody, and then let the listener decide what they might be hearing.

Well, these new songs all mean something, from my life and from my brain. Even the lines that may be somewhat enigmatic or metaphorical sounding to you directly correlate to my life, and maybe yours, too.

The puzzle of existence on “Minor Miracles.” Rebuilding a life in “West County Girl” and “Lose It All, All the Time.” A quite literal story in “For The Boy Who Moved Away” about moving away from L.A. to an uncertain future, the San Gabriel Mountains engulfed in flames in our rearview.

And that’s to name but a few.

These are not the “happy” songs that I’ve come to be associated with – no fully major chords, and lots of suspended chords and major sevenths to make things kind of emotionally ambiguous. There was no stylistic dogma in making this record, and I was ready to fold in every type of music I was into at the moment – Joni Mitchell, new age, early 80′s McCartney, Another Green World, film scores, Talk Talk, British folk, and modern stuff that’s got me excited.

I had a bunch of my favorite people come and join me on this. Sam Cohen, Brian Kantor, and Josh Kaufman (all of Yellowbirds and a million other bands) made up the backbone of the band in the early part of the tracking. And then there were appearances by people from all the different chapters of my musical life – Andy Cabic from Vetiver and Tim Rutili from Califone dropped by to add stuff. James Mercer from The Shins sang some gorgeous high harmonies, and Nathan Larson of Shudder to Think (also my sometime film score collaborator) laid down some drone-y guitar vibes. And of course Thom Monahan, my usual studio co-conspirator, was there to make everything
come together.

These are simple stories, some about losses, a few about disappointment and regret, but also of hope and perseverance. I hope you like these melancholy grooves and existential make-out songs. These all mean something to me, I hope they will to you, too.

- Eric D. Johnson

Pre-Order LP/CD/Digi

EDJ - For The Boy Who Moved Away

Battleships' new single "You Can't Change It"

Released on 22nd August 2014

Preorder now on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/you-cant-change-it-single/id907298872

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BATTLESHIPS - You Can't Change It

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted a cover in a while I've been busy busy busy. Hope you like this one, Laura Veirs is my new fave artist, check her out she's awesome! Peace outttttttttttttttt homies xxxxxxxxx

July Flame - Laura Veirs (cover)

Pre-Order ‘Making Matters Worse’ 
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Vampires: 
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Vampires - Single

Vampires

Nineteen - Tegan and Sara (cover)

IN LIGHT

GIVERS - Ceiling of Plankton

Beautiful Small Machines -  Counting Back To 1

The Trouble With Templeton - Six Months In A Cast

Pinback - Sediment

Cloud Cult - Good Friend

A very very very very very very very very very amateur attempt at covering this song... I'm cringing at the rap verses but I hope you enjoy anyway. 

Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz (cover)

Where Is my Mind - Pixies, you might know it from Fight Club. Enjoy!

Nineteen - Tegan and Sara (cover)

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