my year with the wizard was a long one / you act like a friend, but you’re the wrong one
i call on the phone, i need an answer / why don’t you want the truth?

my year with the devil was a sad one / you look for yourself inside a bad one
and everyone knows that this is nowhere / how do you sleep at night?

my year with the lovers wasn’t worth it / i asked for too much, i think i cursed it
i asked for the kill, but not the question / what do you want from me?

My Year With The Wizard

"You talkin' to me?"

Just a cab driver tryin' to find good music.

I don't use Soundcloud that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ except for sharing playlists & reposting all the Submithub submissions I've approved for blahging each month that were submitted via Soundcloud. So I guess I use it a little bit after all.

Solo artist/producer from Swindon, UK - dabbling in sounds while others sing. No idea what I’m doing 😉. Love to all who listen, comment, and repost! x
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音楽は楽しいです

Jesse Doherty, songwriter for Catskills-based band Battle Ave (formed in 2009 by Doherty and drummer Samantha Niss), seems to be waiting for popular trends to catch up with him. His compositions of wobbly synthesizers, garbled vocals, and clear-eyed melody recall outré acts like Frog Eyes as much as they do music that will catch on in five years. Their 2011 debut War Paint was a cathartic rollercoaster, with Doherty testing the limits of his self-taught voice under layers of distortion. The record that followed, 2015’s Year of Nod, found the band using a more subdued palette to paint, as James Rettig wrote, “a cloudy landscape of emotional peaks and valleys.” Battle Ave often feels like a hub, a place where things that feel familiar are captured and distorted until you no longer know what to make of them.

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

My Year With The Wizard

BATTLE AVE.