im not great at singing, and can rarely be bothered to do second takes so hopefully the imperfections make it endearing?

demos, covers, songs with singing

generative synth I made for a uni project that was imbedded in a 3d environment (labyrinth) but I got distracted and recorded a quick voice memo on my phone and improvised some words

09/05/23

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This string has led me,
led me down this path
these bricked walls;
I know I must go
down your labyrinth dream
this endless stream,
I know

In dying light you lead me down your candle lit path
Into a field of burning, 
burning hay standing: broken, cut, clean
and though l wear down, I know I’ll make it in the end

This thread a dream, unseen
Your forest trees stand over me
And I fall in the outcropping
with owls hooting down at me

labyrinth (voicememo)

pretty sure the lyrics are wrong, this was mostly just an attempt at playing guitar and singing at the same time as im not great at multitasking :(

grouper headache very loose cover

hold me down so i won't falter,
hold me down,
hold me down and be my shelter,
hold me down, love.

hold me down,
hold me down
please, please
please, please

shelter (demo)

i have waited my whole life for you
i have waited my whole life for you
to come my way,
i have waited my whole life for you
and now you push me away

i have waited my whole life for you
and i cant find the words to say
the way you mean to me,
its only fair i see,
that just so easily,
you seem to tear me to shreds

i have waited my whole life for you,
i have waited my whole life for you
to lead me to rest
i have waited my whole life for you,
i have waited my whole life for you
to leave me to rest

solitaire

a quick demo, im at the tail end of having covid for the past week so my throat isnt completly healed and i couldnt really sing. 
this track is quite similar to Spokane.

words:

as i rode through the rain,
as i breathed, the world ends
take me down, down the river
free me tear

bridleway (demo)

proabably some of my sloppiest guitar playing but its a demo anyway

i can only hold so long (demo)

a loose demo track from last week, just improvised mic and guitar with an overdub and a copious amount of muddy reverb, would have been better if i wasnt singing while playing at the same time as then id be able to do more with just the sound of the strings and redo the background-ish singing

theres a version with less reverb here: https://soundcloud.com/binthorn/error-columbae/s-26NkrOCWfgg?si=24b8f383d4b1481ca0e6c4df2654696f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

obscurus error columbae

a very lazily made track, made in like 15-20 mins with a mild headache,
just some multitracking and mic'ed room with vocals,
bluetile lounge and bark psychosis inspired (maybe a little deathcrash, but barely)

words:
what does seem,
what does it seem to say
i cant work out
its too far away
to see
what tomorrow will bring
it seems so far away
it seems so far away
it seems so far

empty walls

deadends (demo?)

a cover of one of my favourite mogwai songs - this version is without drums
here's the version with: https://soundcloud.com/binthorn/r-u-still-in-2-it-cover?si=76b88cf0239a4078a80b6d3adc81443b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

r u still in 2 it (mogwai cover, no drums)

improvised words:

I wrote this story
under the shade of the tree,
the rain poured down on me
ink splotted

I wrote this song
in the mist,
i rode along
evade this hiss

and when I left
and the tide came to
I shone the light
cast my mind up from it

under the dead tree - voice memo demo

the words i wrote:

It just feels like such a long time to sit blankly at a wall and simply stare,

idly waiting for a moment, a fleeting chance of something that we might share

I try to find some meaning in the words of others,
but its never quite the same.

I try to find another reason,
same old lens, a different frame

and all this time ive spent going nowhere - and feel the same

and all this time ive spent not going anywhere at all

silence:lens

a simple cover of a Roy Montgomery song - well, the lyrics that is - theyre not the right chords or key (and even then the words not right haha, for some reason I heard it as ‘poem’ instead of ‘cold’ - but I like how it sounds anyway)

i was trying to learn the tab for red house painters 'grace cathedral park' and got distracted

heres the noisier demo version; https://soundcloud.com/binthorn/rec-20250124-18h01m44s-just-melacholy-rough/s-kry34MnTO5B?si=aeba44ae4c4347ae9a939c403860f850&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

just melancholy (roy montgomery cover)

mistress (rough red house painters cover)

if all the words i wrote came true -
all the poems i wrote for you, 
i'd remove this strange attire,
masquerading false-desire

if i could lay them in a fire
and watch the flames climb ever higher,
flicker in the speckled night
punctuated lights in flight

the ash will glow
but cool to grey,
thoughts i long to drop
but cling to in confusion
knowing that im lost,
leaning on them like a branch
when roots cant keep my tired stance

do i whisper to the fire?
answer voices in the crackling pyre?

i’ll be warm here by the fire
in hope you’ll join me for a while
will i burn, or freeze in cold
as i long to turn to gold?

poems (of you)

non-layered version (just the voice memo from phone): https://soundcloud.com/binthorn/make-me-know-me/s-NelwbQO8asn?si=e51601b858644168a0c0254f20ecbe3c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

i was singing but listening back it just sounds like humming, think its just the mic quality

these are not the words explicity as i usually write after:

and ill throw it away,
and ill throw it away,
see it flowing away
ive not grown into it
make this land reach me

im not whole yet
i still stow it away
is it trying to breach me?

im not holy
theres no whole to me
make me whole 
completely
show me how to reach this.

Ill not throw it away,
Ill not throw it away,
make me holy (teach me how to give)
please just hold me (teach me how to live)
please just hold me (ive so much to give)
please just know me (theres so much to live)

make me know me (teach me)

fallen tree (voice memo)

made from sampled vocals and a field recording

when the clouds break through
every rose turns blue
curved to shapes of you
gently falls into

every violent scream 
from the winding stream
turns my lips to blue
trembing next to you

when the tide comes in
my heart bleeds within
the setting sun turns blue
glow surrounding you

blue sun

you will miss me when i burn (palace music cover)

suzanne (take 01 - storm)

Im going to be moving some things around soon so tracks might disappear

i think ill probably keep the 'my grey leaving' ambient-shoegaze stuff here and move the other demos and random stuff (as bin/thorn) over to Nina as it has unlimited upload space, and has free streaming

demos, covers, songs with singing

my grey leaving & bin/thorn