this is kind of amazing! The super fast beat but normal speed vocal line, it's a cool effect. Came from the Reddit post. Will check out more.

Raj played Drums
Ryan played non Drums
Both did computer stuff

Joel Robinow played piano on "Kyle Thinks a lot of Very Cool Thoughts"
Rosie Steffy sang on "Rhododendrons and Daisies (Tyler Wagner Wrote This Song)"
Roy Ruth said stuff throughout

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We went back in “the lab” in May and made another one of these things. And by “the lab,” I mean a soundproofed room in Jack London Square with halogen office lights, industrial carpet, and a box of SCSI cables to a mid 90’s Zip Drive that I remain hopeful to find one day. 

I have stupid little thoughts about stupid little things that deserve stupid little songs to be written about them. 

I read something about people buying lottery tickets for the dopamine rush and sense of hope it gives you, knowing damn well they aren’t going to win. Ok. 

I don’t smoke pot, but one time I did and scared myself into thinking I lived in a computer. It seemed like a privilege. I don’t think children digging up precious metals for Tamagotchi motherboards think the monotony and cruelty in their lives is a computer program. Sure. 

Everybody should be free and never hide who they are. Don’t let people make you live under their thumb. The world will always need more freaks. Wether it’s Toussaint Louverture or Dennis Eckersley. Yes, you get a song as well. 

I covered a Tyler Wagner song because I love Tyler Wagner songs. Tell him to hit me up if you see him around town. Same goes for Lee Marvin. 

Ok. Great. Thank you. Goodbye.

Other Lives of Magic and Wonder and Whatever

Symbol Soup - Dark Horse

I Like It

A song about the struggles of trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with a 1980s synth pop inspired musical backdrop.

Angles

Wild Horse - Tangled

Who's Your Money On? The first track off the new EP, 'Youth'.

Who’s Your Money On?

Gold Spectacles - PseudoFriends

‘Just a Little’ is a collaboration between NI songwriters Rory Nellis & Kris Marsden. Engineered & produced by Kris Marsden in his lo-fi studio, where he’s recording the third Kippysmuse album.
Drums by Stephen Leacock (General Fiasco, Nathan
Connolly).
Mixed & mastered by Phillip Watts d'Alton.

Just A Little

Raj played Drums
Ryan played non Drums
Both did computer stuff

Joel Robinow played piano on "Kyle Thinks a lot of Very Cool Thoughts"
Rosie Steffy sang on "Rhododendrons and Daisies (Tyler Wagner Wrote This Song"
Roy Ruth said stuff throughout

Wand'rin' Star

Rhododendrons and Daisies (Tyler Wagner Wrote This Song)

Kyle Thinks a lot of Very Cool Thoughts

I Bought a Lottery Ticket

Don't Ever Hide Your Face

Garvie takes the AI conversation and holds it up to a fun-house mirror with Default, a frenetic pop rock stomper. 

Default opens with a groove-laden, rough and-ready garage rock beat - but that’s far too simple cool for Garvie’s liking. It didn’t take co-producers Garvie and props long to cover this simple canvas in irreverent lyrics, bit-crushed synths and cartoonish SFX (banana peels, anyone?). Default walks a hyperactive tightrope between the extremes of cool minimalism and pure fun, where Queens of the Stone Age’s sense of groove and Metronomy’s production style can be gleamed.

“I like to make music that nods to the past in a fun way whilst sounding modern at the same time.” Garvie explains. “While it’s fairly tongue-in-cheek lyrically, Default is ultimately about feeling obsolete and replace-able in a relationship, which is why it uses quite a lot of computer-based references. It’s also got a lot of parallels with all of the recent developments in AI, which have definitely made me feel like I might be obsolete soon as a human artist!”

Default

Plato had it easy
Right place right time
To write down his lessons
And make them last through time
I'm lacking inspiration
I'm already past my prime
The grass was always greener
When you're on the other side
I don't know what to do
In this world

So I did my research
I looked it up online
I asked Jeeves
He shrugged and deeply sighed
He said, "you're not like Sinatra,
No, you don't have his eyes
And you don't like dancing
When your feet are getting tired."
I don't know what to do
In this world
I don't know what to do
In this world
I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do

I don't want the dreaming
I don't want the hope
I gave my all already
And now I wish I'd never spoke
If "everyone's an artist"
Then who is left to gaze?
Will the seats lie empty
When we're standing on that stage?
I don't know what to do
In this world
world
I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do

Aaron Neville - keyboards, backing vocals
Adam Kidd - composer, rhythm guitar, lead vocals, production
Adam Whittles - bass guitar, backing vocals
James Crump - drums, percussion, engineering
Tom Alty - lead guitar, backing vocals

Tristan Maclenahan - mixing and mastering (Aquitaine Sounds)

Don't Know What To Do

So High

Nobody's Fool

B. Hamilton is songwriter Ryan Christopher Parks and drummer Raj Kumar Ojha (Once and Future Band). They cut their teeth in the warehouse days of Oakland around 2010 and recorded ramshackle records in flophouse attics, former army barracks turned Mills College noise musician housing, and their rehearsal space in Jack London Square that looks like an early 80’s accounting office, and a set from one of the “Saw” movies. 
 
Existing before and after tech created complete chaos in Oakland is the subject of a number of their songs. Other songs are about other things. Like cancer, John Wayne, and buying lottery tickets after church.
 
2024’s “The Freest Speech Ever Attempted Without Disintegrating” is about Elon Musk, kind of. 
 
“I tried to write a bunch of stuff about him, but ended up writing about the same loneliness and lack of connection that everyone has experienced at some point in their lives,” said Parks. “It’s the same loneliness that humanity might be leaning into as we go toward whatever the future is.”
 
I wrote this entire bio like you can't tell it's me writing it. I even referred to myself as "Parks," in the last paragraph like I'm a Naval whistleblower on "60 Minutes." Writing these things is the goddamn worst. Alright, have a good day.

Don't Ever Hide Your Face

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