impulse nine loves you and this playlist is how that love is expressed

This was the first song I attempted to write on the piano and coming up with my own chords for it after I wrote the first verse. This song was somewhat inspired by Taylor Swift's "Haunted" although it ended up being very different story and sound-wise. I wrote this about a relationship I had that was essentially fading away instead of officially ending due to a lack of any communication.

Fading

This song is about the feeling of being stuck outside of someone else's narrative that they have built in their own head that can often be false and based on assumptions that they have made that aren't true. And the struggle that goes along with a relationship like that when one person is always stuck in their head, and the other person can't seem to wake them up to reality.

Built Your Own Narrative

An upbeat almost reggae-like song about being someone's checklist instead of their choice

Game of Life

What Does That Tell You (About Me) Demo

Music for flagging hearts and and hard times. Written in realization that even trusted news sources can be poisonous if the information is pointless drivel meant to drive us to despair. We must step back from the Void.

Call of the Void (Quiet)

Call of the Void (Noise)

Call of the Void

This is about as pretty a melody as we can do. With inspiration taken from Zero7 and Cinematic Orchestra, as well as contemporary lofi and a pinch of Phil Collins' drums. Hacky & Bird guided the lofi aspects, and Yahli contributed the live drumming parts. Otherwise written and performed by impulse nine as a break from an upcoming album.

Rainy Day

A collaboration between impulse nine and Hacky + Bird, this is a brief respite from a burning world. A moment to catch your breath.

These Riots Grow Roses

Fading (Thousand Gardens Remix)

Spinning

At the End (ilyBBY Remix)

Old Habits Die Hard

Always been an open and emotional person, now I put those feelings into my songs for others to relate to and feel

For over 20 years, impulse nine was a private home studio project, but has expanded to include musicians from Tucson and around the world. After hundreds of demos and untold hours, impulse nine is being presented to the world as a mostly-instrumental amalgam of shoegaze, hard rock, and post-rock, with influences from ambient, 90s rock, and other places.

Fading (Thousand Gardens Remix)

Brenna Menz

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