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Reality Check EP

The second single from my upcoming album The Comfortable Dark, available July 23rd on all platforms.

Lyrics:

Who are you?
Who are you tryna fool?
Who am I? Gotta tell a guy the truth

What are we? What are we tryna do?
In a dream we confuse ourselves

I believe that belief is a ruse
And I think—when you think
You diffuse what you seek from your views
You don't mean to dilute but you do
Sue me

This disease is a weakness of choosing
Not a bug. It's a feature to do it
And I trust in the sequence of stupor
My cup isn't clean when it's too full
Lets just be truthful

In the heat of the moment
We believe we can see to the future
And the past is a weight on our shoulders
Our brain cannot hold us
It's pulling me

It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me down

It's offing me awfully often
My thoughts are impossible
Stop me if this sounds familiar
My will is unstoppable (unstoppable)
My awesomeness stems from desire for competency

That has a consequence
Knowledge is not the cure-all that it's thought to be
I am your novelty
I am your god and your prophecy
Stop calling me

It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
It's pushing me, it's pulling me
I can't keep going like this
I can't keep going like this

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ALDEN GROVES - Baptize

Artist: Blackmill
Title: Spirit of Life
Genre: Melodic Dubstep
Software: FL Studio 10

2011

Blackmill - Spirit of Life (Full Version)

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Searchlight

Artist: Blackmill
Title: Lucid Truth
Genre: Melodic Dubstep
Software: FL Studio 10

My latest track, let me know what you think :)

Peace x

Blackmill - Lucid Truth (Full Version)

Zedd - Papercut ft. Troye Sivan (Grey Remix)

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Zedd - Papercut (feat. Troye Sivan) [Grey Remix]

MORTEN ft. Frida Sundemo - Beautiful Heartbeat (Deorro Remix)

When I first wrote this song, I was living in my friend’s grandparents’ basement, and only owned what would fit in my car. I had no job, almost no money, and the only remaining possessions I really had were studio equipment. Nonetheless, I found time to record when nobody else was home, and kept producing and writing music whenever I could. 

Vertigo embodies the mentality I tried to maintain throughout that difficult period of my life. I had to buckle down and give everything I had. I got a job, started making money, and—with a ton of support from my friends—I managed to get out of the rut and stabilize myself enough to finish the record and start to really take care of myself. Now that FOOL // savior is about to release nearly 4 years after I wrote Vertigo, it feels more relevant than ever. No matter what life throws at me, I will not give up on what I believe in, and this album is the living testament to that fact. 

We're told a lot of things by society about how best to live our lives, and many of these messages are toxic or demeaning. Consumerism and corporate interests constantly put us down or try to manipulate us into believing certain things about ourselves, regardless of the harm or dishonesty of their claims. 

If one is going to truly be motivated, one has to really accept the existence of this harsh negative atmosphere, and learn to breathe in spite of the toxins. We can't persevere if we can't even acknowledge what we're fighting against. I wanted the lyrics to embody the spirit of the toxic aspects of our modern culture, because I think it's more meaningful to keep fighting with a keen understanding of where we are a society. 

You are and will always be enough, no matter what the adverts tell you. 

I'm undeserving of a purpose, but I will battle 'til I'm burning up.

FOOL // savior

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Evoke - Vertigo

I went back to my roots with this one. The classic evOke sound was characterized by more intense bass lines and edits, and I still love that stuff in the right context. 

I wanted to play off the double-meaning of “windows”: windows into houses and windows on a computer. In one sense, when I’m really upset I retreat into my online life. I can’t seem to close my windows. Similarly, when I’m really emotionally raw, it feels like I can’t close my emotional windows—all the weather from outside just pours into my house. His holiness Au5 gave me a lot of pointers when it came time to mix this one down, particularly with the heavier sounds. 

[Verse] 

Face the divine 
I shouldn’t have gotten involved 
Left me alive 
So I could receive the signal 

I can’t decide 
Whether to wither or wander 
Seasons go by 
And I can’t seem to close my windows 

[Verse 2] 
Taste the profound 
Stirring and energetic 
Lost in the cloud 
I’m ebbing along the static 

I can’t be found 
Whether I wither or wander 
Seasons go round 
And I can’t seem to close my windows 

[Verse 3] 
Come up for air 
This is the day you’ve longed for 
We’re almost there 
Just skirting the edge of a thunderstorm 

I can’t be scared 
Whether we wither or wander 
Seasons don’t care 
That I can’t seem to close my windows

Windows

This song is really wacky from a theory perspective—pretty unintentionally. There’s a couple key changes and a time-signature change. I can tell I’ve done something like that right when nobody seems to notice that I’ve done it. 

I played all of the guitar on this song (I did everything on every song so that’s a bit of a moot point, but I digress). The last solo I wrote note-by-note slowly, picking individual notes on the guitar, and it took me weeks to learn to play it up to speed. It actually improved my guitar playing quite a bit.

Lyrics:

You must be mistaken 
You must be mistaken—oh 
Hear the rattles in the cave 

And why'd you have to take it? 
Why'd you have to take it all? 
I'm tracing shapes 

You must be mistaken 
You must be mistaken—oh 
Hear the rattles in the cave 

And why'd you have to take it? 
Why'd you have to take it all? 
I'm tracing shapes 

Not a hieroglyphic 
Not to get specific but 
I'm pedantic in a way 

I am but a vision 
Underneath intention oh 
The catacombs awaken

Catacombs

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ALDEN GROVES - Catacombs

I think the lyrics on this are potentially my favorite on the album. It’s about the profound existentialism of feeling bored and alone—mundanity and everyday problems. Fittingly enough, almost the whole song got lost in mid 2018 when my computer crashed. Thankfully I was able to salvage the midi and re-record the guitar parts and it sounds better now than before the crash. Blessing in disguise? Maybe. It was definitely a pain at the time. When I started taking vocal lessons at the beginning of 2018, this was the song my vocal teacher and I started my training with.

[Verse 1] 
This is just another long day 
For a self made martyr or an infidel 
I don’t need another one of your damn lectures 
Do I? 

Crawling on the face of the moon 
Like a hamstrung Armstrong nare-do-well 
With a bottle at my side 
In the twilight 

Guilty as charged 
Guilty as charged 

Just a day’s ennui 
For a kid wth a penny at a wishing well 
Doesn’t wanna let another mundane hour cruise by 

Staring at the face of a clock 
Like a listless lover at a ship set sail 
Clutching a bottle 
With a goodbye on the inside 

Guilty as charged 
Guilty as charged 
[Chorus] 
Undone—undone—undone 
Wasting away and you’re 
Undone—undone—undone 
Wasting your time on yourself 

[Verse 3] 
This is just a made up game 
For a cold night in when the truth is dead 
You don’t even have a decent reason to lie 

Banging on a mirror all day like an ape in a rage 
Or a newlywed 
In an offbeat rhythm I like 
For a lifetime 
[Chorus] 

[Bridge] 
Here we come, tedium 
My whole week’s been eaten up 
Pull the curtains, abandon sun 
I’ve seen enough 

Here we come, tedium 
Sleepwalk off your animus 
If today’s not sweet enough 
Take it back for a new one 

[Chorus]

Undone

ALDEN GROVES - Crazy

The hollow sea wanna swallow me
Swallow Dramamine whole
By the bottleful
Odyssey, nautical

Loss of breath. Underwater
Not predestined not to find a harbor
Lucky duck, I lost the plot & lotto
Corking up an ark inside a bottle

Life aquatic—I’ll be honest
It’s no lifeline—fish food for thought
It’s no man’s land—there’s no land option
Dead men dance where a lone man tosses

Turns, churns, rolls, rocks and
Swerves in a current, floating atop some
Ocean of occurrence that flows with the flotsam and
Jetsam extending in every direction—I’m restless

Each wave on an anchor 
I lie awake as it holds me down
I’ve drowned before the dawn
Each day is an ocean
Full of sway and commotion
I search for solid ground 

I confess 
I’m in deep 
Watch the wake 
As I’m losing sleep
I’m obsessed
I’m at sea
Castaway with 
No life to lead

No life jacket
I grapple with my kraken
Dispassion—my actions
My extrication is a rite of passage
A life-raft gone hydrographic 
Microscopic to the tidal traffic
Write a passage in the Bible ‘bout it
The great flood shaped us
Wake up 

Noah
I collect the crows
I come up—I call out. The coast
I damn near fall out the crows-nest
To call out to no one 
Land ho, yes

Each wave on an anchor 
I lie awake as it holds me down
I’ve drowned before the dawn
Each day is an ocean
Full of sway and commotion
I search for solid ground 

Ocean
Sway sway sway
All I see is
Ocean
Sway sway sway
All I see is 
Ocean
Sway sway sway
All I see is 
Ocean 
Sway sway sway
All I see is 

Each wave on an anchor 
I lie awake as it holds me down
I’ve drowned before the dawn
Each day is an ocean
Full of sway and commotion
I search for solid ground

ALDEN GROVES - Sway (ft. Heléne)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! I was going to keep this under lock and key until the album was out but since I got too excited and its Christmas I thought lets share it. I hope you like this one :)

Can't believe its been 4 years since my last Melodic Dubstep song.

I have a few more I'm working on - this 3rd album is taking forever because its all melodic dubstep. I'm working on other genres too but they wont fit this album. 

Having a wee boy this year makes it a bit more difficult to produce but I am still working away :)

Love to all you beautiful beings!

Blackmill - Redemption (Full Version)

Comedown

Midnight Sun

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The Odds

Reality Check

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