My cover of Tame Impala's "Enders Toi", for assignment 4 of Recording and Production Techniques. For those that care the saucy details (all 738 words)are below. And yes, I sang, played guitar and provided catering for the whole event.

Enders Toi (Cover)

This is a cover of a song very dear to my heart, as my band performed it live for many years. As this version progressed I realised I was expressing a lot through it, and you'll hear samples of some of our performances included throughout.

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Postcards from Italy (Cover)

I had to do a psychedelic cover for an assignment, so I picked something short. I highly doubt anybody wants to read the five hundred words I wrote for this so you won't be getting the chance.

Also, NOTICE ME KEVIN I LOVE YOU

She Just Won't Believe Me (Cover)

Ever since I heard this song by Efterklang over a decade ago, it stayed in my head.

Then I discovered that it was also coincidentally significant to someone very, very important to me, and I knew that the song meant something to my life. Finally I've managed to recreate it.

Sedna (Cover)

Working title "Avocado Bathroom" but that was too scary. This is my Halloween song, and is one of three Model Folk demos I'm trying to finish and publish.

It tells the story of a young, troubled vicar in a leafy pastoral village. He's a handsome man, with his sleeves rolled up, slaving over tomorrow's sermon. Alas, the night grows longer and longer and he is unable to rid his mind of wicked, dark, polluting thoughts. Little does he know, his mind is so damaged that tonight, on this spooky cursed eve, he triggers a stirring in the cemetery...

The Anguish of an Artist (Original Song) 🎃

Written in the vein of "When I'm Sixty-Four", this is my attempt at a love song. I'd like to thank Badger for the forceful influence of tea as as a songwriting muse over the years, and Steph and James for their respective wonderful featured solos.

Two Bag Brew (Original Song) 🫖

This is song written from a place of anger. Frick you.

Slow Down (Original Song)

Danger Danger Wet Floor

It's finally done.

From a hook I came up with in 2015, this song became a compulsion to finish this year. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of debating whether puns count as lyrics, and relearning exactly how raw my raw musicality is. Eternal thanks to Flex Pitch, as always. Please feel free to download and listen to throughout the year.

Anyway, I'm surprisingly proud of this. Merry Christmas y'all, every one.

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Lyrics:
A present that's addressed to you wrapped carefully by me, 
Waits in anticipation, underneath the tree,
The holly and the tinsel and the scent of opened wine,
Just emphasise your absence and I’m left wondering why,

Meet me by the fire this Christmas,
And Don't you ever let me go,
No more getting colder while growin’ older
We can watch the embers glow,
Meet me by the fire for Christmas,
You know it hurt to see you go,
This time of year, wish you were here     
Underneath the mistletoe,

The fleeting season's greetings aren't the same without you near,
Soon spring is come and the feeling's gone, for another year,
Now I'm not the kind of person to place too much on one day,
But I hope you know how much it'd mean if you came to stay,

FUGUE: Meet me by the fire this Christmas (x1000)

Meet me by the fire this Christmas,
And Don't you ever let me go,
No more getting colder while growin’ older,
We can watch the embers glow,
Meet me by the fire for Christmas,
Just like we never shed those tears,
To have you here on Christmas day would be the highlight of my year,
To hold you tight would be the Christmas I've been dreaming of my dear,

Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it was to write a Christmas song today

Meet Me by the Fire (This Christmas) - Original Song 🎄

Just a little cover of a very happy little song by Beirut

Created from scratch in Logic X, mainly with the Clav

Alex Aspinall

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