Little bit of guyliner and manscara for the 80's crowd

Isolation (Final Demo)

Anywhere Your Heart Takes You - 17:07:2021

Recover

Remixed, with some subtle level changes and a new outro vocal. Still powerpopping like you wouldn't believe. I'm particularly pleased with how this turned out, lot of work went into the vox.

Rosalie (Remix)

A cover of Glasvegas' magnificent "Geraldine". I've never tried a cover before, preferring to write my own stuff but this song is so great I couldn't resist.

Geraldine (Glasvegas Cover)

Cover of Buffalo Tom's "Sunday Night" - this is the second version with a tidied up verse vocal, better outro and a guitar solo. I played the harmonica parts again too.

Sunday Night (Buffalo Tom Cover v.2)

This is a cover of Bob Dorsey's (Five Extra Arms) marvellous "Goodwife". Bob plays keys and programmed the drums on this too. I love this song, the sentiment, the wonderful arpeggios and the general feel of it. I hope I've done him proud.

Good Wife (Five Extra Arms cover)

Another brand new song. This came from playing with a few chords on my LP after dropping the tuning by a semitone. It's deliberately a little ambiguous and as a result a little sinister in places despite the words appearing on the face of it to be quite sweet.
For a change I've slowed it right down and changed the tone entirely ...

Slow Burning Story

Music from an unmade 80s movie in which the hero, a cartographer, falls in love with a small town girl who is subsequently abducted by an evil race of aliens. She is transported to a forbidden zone and hidden in a fortress. Our hero has to use all his mapping skills to make his way across the zone, fighting robotic servitors and befriending a race of battery powered elves on the way. Probably would have starred Michael J Fox...

Cartography

A full re-record of my track "You and Me" this time on Garageband. I'm still using the Trio drum track but this time the bass is me and there is a little bit of electric piano for good measure. I've added a second guitar and re recorded the vocals,

You And Me (Re - Recorded) - 16:07:2019, 18.08

Electronic sounds smashed together to make something approaching a tune

Pushing Bits (Q8) - 16:07:2019, 23.26

Shinkansen - 17:07:2019, 16.33

Ambient electronic piece with heavily effected guitar

C'est Ca

A heartbreak song, written and recorded in 2007. An attempt to mine the "Americana" vein in style and content. All instruments and voices by Paddy Navin.
Words & Music: Paddy Navin

She Keeps Her Clothes On

Fast dirty demo knocked up in about 45 minutes today.

Anything (demo version)

Found this on an old NAS drive, recorded in Garageband about 10 or 11 years ago. I vaguely recall recording it

Lidice (new)

The Cardinal Sins is the solo project of Lincoln Valentine, one half of Dynamite Van Pipe, the power pop punk duo forever working on their first album. The Cardinal Sins' songs explore romance, tragedy and missed opportunities. Lincoln plays; guitars, bass, drums, sings and butchers the keyboards on all of The Cardinal Sins tunes.
Get in contact. Always looking for a female singer for projects. 
thecardinalsins@btinternet.com

The Cardinal Sins

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