Been singing along to Belle and Sebastian all day. Now i just need the confidence to record it. Thanks for this. Youre great. 

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This track is from the album The Scientist and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/danwarren2

Flowers Are Periscopes

After Hours (The Velvet Underground)

Smith Westerns have cleaned up nicely. Just over a year ago, the Chicago foursome were of the strictly "lo-fi" persuasion, stirring up hot, filthy garage-rock candy out of Marc Bolan and Beatles signifiers. It was youthful music in feeling and sound-- their noisy full-length debut was recorded while they were still in high school-- but the remarkable hooks buried therein were clear enough to land them on the increasingly stacked Fat Possum roster. And suddenly, they had a studio budget the likes of which they definitely hadn't enjoyed before. Though the leap is audibly huge, Dye It Blonde's many successes aren't wholly the result of its gilded production values and ambition. This band was able to furnish first-class melodies from the beginning. Now they've grown along with their resources.

You can hear the progress right away in "Imagine, Pt. 3", a song originally released as part of a split 7" in April 2010. Sped up here just a touch, it's also been re-outfitted with a far creamier set of synths and guitars. The way the latter seem to clasp hands during the coda is particularly breathtaking, frontman Cullen Omori and guitarist Max Kakacek letting their individual lines mate rather than duel. While the melodic foundation was already sturdy throughout, here, what once sounded ragged in stretches is now plush-upholstered from start to finish. Every single piece of Dye It Blonde is similarly decadent, whether it's the sweet whine of semi-titular closer "Dye the World" or the twilight jangle of "End of the Night".

In an interview not long after the album's completion, Omori noted that this otherwise new set of songs was influenced by 90s Britpop luminaries like Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, and Suede. All are present sonically and spiritually, be it in brash tones, melodic IQ or the sheer scope of these recordings. Where a Smith Westerns hook may have once sounded like another fuzzy member of the Nuggets family/genus, it now unfolds like crane-shot, mainstage festival fare. "Still New" for example floats some phasered guitar interplay before Kakacek rips a hole across the chest of the song with a woozy line so big it essentially serves as a chorus. Like "Weekend", whose central, hair-flipping lick also hugs all its parts together perfectly, the song just sounds so drunk-- drunk on love, drunk on heavy petting, drunk on drink, or maybe just drunk on a some combination of the above. In song, it all depends on the lean of Omori's voice and the whip of his chord changes, the curves of his brother Cameron's bass lines.

That moony/beery-eyed feel bleeds through every corridor of this album and in turn forms a crystalline expression of what moves this band. Their use of the studio in augmenting that never goes overboard, though: this music still retains the innately psychedelic, lamplit, tongue-kissed sense of atmosphere that set it apart. There's perhaps no better instance of all that than "All Die Young", the album's centerpiece. It's a ballad turned hymn whose grand, tumbling scale and "Oh Yoko"-indebted outro celebration are peaks on an album rich in them. In its closing moments, Omori sings what sounds like, "Love is lovely when you are young." They were convincing before, but now they seem like experts.

— David Bevan, January 18, 2011 [Pitchfork | Best New Music | 8.4]

All Die Young

One Beat

Sleater Kinney - Oh!

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Bury Our Friends

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Taken from the LP: "Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Think" - Released on March 23rd Worldwide


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PEDESTRIAN AT BEST was written by Courtney Barnett

I love you I hate you 
I’m on the fence it all depends 
whether I’m up I’m down 
I’m on the mend 
transcending all reality. 
I like you despise you admire you 
what are we gonna do 
when everything all falls through? 
I must confess I’ve made a mess 
of what should be a small success 
but I digress 
at least I’ve tried my very best I guess. 
This that the other 
why even bother, 
it won’t be with me on my death bed, 
but I’ll still be in your head.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

My internal monologue 
is saturated analogue, 
It’s scratched and drifting, 
I’ve become attached to the idea 
it’s all a shifting dream bitter sweet philosophy, 
I’ve got no idea how I even got here. 
I’m resentful 
I’m having an existential time crisis, 
what bliss, daylight savings won’t fix this mess. 
Underworked and oversexed 
I must express my disinterest, 
the rats are back inside my head 
what would Freud have said?

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

I wanna wash out my head with turpentine and cyanide,
I dislike this internal diatribe 
when I try to catch your eye 
I hate seeing you crying in the kitchen 
I don’t know why it affects me like this when you’re not even mine to consider.
Erroneous.
Harmonious.
I’m hardly sanctimonious.
Dirty clothes, I suppose, 
we all outgrow ourselves.
I’m a fake, 
I’m a phoney, 
I’m awake, 
I’m alone, 
I’m homely, 
I’m a Scorpio.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

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From the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, out March 6 on Merge Records.

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The Magnetic Fields

Andrew in Drag

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Don't Flatter Yourself

Released 1996 by Belle and Sebastian from their 'If you're feeling sinister' album.  This one is mostly just straight piano, live bass, guitar, and a few big fast drum loops. Very clever band, fun song.  I must have recorded this around 2002.

get me away from here I'm dying (Belle and Sebastian cover)

From my 2008 album The Scientist.  

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Parallel Universes

Combat Baby

Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Belle & Sebastian.

Piazza, New York Catcher

This is a track I did for Jay Tholen's new video game, Hypnospace Outlaw.  Within the game, the song is by an imaginary 90's alt-folk band called Barnaby's Chair.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/844590/Hypnospace_Outlaw/

Lyrics:

Back when we were both young and pretty
Oh, you had so much to say
But things weren't perfect in the city
So now you've moved away
And my my, look how your star has faded
You spend the night at home
Practicing your drums
for a gig that never comes
Casting dirty glances at the phone

You've still got mountains in your mind
You never even tried to climb
You never seemed to have the time
You know you used to shine so bright
Was that all reflected light?
Were you just a satellite?

Lord knows, these things get so confusing
When you have flown so far
Back home the almond trees are blooming
But it's autumn where you are
And my my, now all the leaves are changing
Just like the color of your hair
Time flies, soon everything looks strange and
A chill is in the air

You've still got mountains in your mind
You never even tried to climb
You never seemed to have the time
You know you used to shine so bright
Was that all reflected light?
Were you just a satellite?

You know you used to shine so bright
Was that all reflected light?
Was nothing coming from inside?
Were you just a satellite?

Satellite Orchestral

Hypnospace Outlaw OST vol. 3 is out, including a bunch of songs from me!  They're also included in the new content update, which should be dropping on Steam and elsewhere today!

This track is an alt-rock reworking of my song for the initial release, Satellite.  

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Lyrics:
Back when we were both young and pretty
Oh, you had so much to say
But things weren't perfect in the city
So now you've moved away
And my my, look how your star has faded
You spend the night at home
Practicing your drums
for a gig that never comes
Casting dirty glances at the phone

You've still got mountains in your mind
You never even tried to climb
You never seemed to have the time
You know you used to shine so bright
Was that all reflected light?
Were you just a satellite?

Lord knows, these things get so confusing
When you have flown so far
Back home the almond trees are blooming
But it's autumn where you are
And my my, now all the leaves are changing
Just like the color of your hair
Time flies, soon everything looks strange and
A chill is in the air

You've still got mountains in your mind
You never even tried to climb
You never seemed to have the time
You know you used to shine so bright
Was that all reflected light?
Were you just a satellite?

You know you used to shine so bright
Was that all reflected light?
Was nothing coming from inside?
Were you just a satellite?

Barnaby

Satellite Electrica

"Tiger Tank" is the first single off Speedy Ortiz's debut LP "Major Arcana".

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Speedy Ortiz - Tiger Tank

Hi, I'm Brian, and I play in a band called helicopters from Chicago, IL.  

get me away from here I'm dying (Belle and Sebastian cover)

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