Speaking with Strangers

Hope You Forgive Everything You Can't

I wrote this for the song a week on reddit.  The theme was senses.  This is my second song in a row to use the word 'smell' and it will hopefully be the last.

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Senseless (reddit song a week theme: senses)

Another for the Song a week challenge.

Looking out the door I see a stormy world out there
No need to let the wind whisk me anywhere
So I stay home and let the radio sing
Comfy chair and a high ball full might be just the thing

Its good enough today
Its good enough to keep the blues away
Sip on the silence shut out the pain
Its good enough today

Burned the frozen dinner left the porch light on
Forgot all the words to our favorite song
Car window was down when it started to rain
Carelessness isn't bad luck when its so deeply ingrained

Its good enough today
Its good enough to keep the blues away
Blow out the smoke shut out the rain
Its good enough today

Crawling in the sheets defeated once again
Maybe I'll wake up a winner and try to pretend
My moldy old car will rung another year
I'll pay off my credit card and find my new career

Its good enough today
Its good enough to keep the blues away
So I'm sipping the cheap stuff until I'm paid
Its good enough today

2022 SAW

Good Enough Today

Since You Left

Week #10 of Song-a-Week - theme is "tempo change".

[Edit: uploaded a slightly extended and fixed version, still within the 7 day period! - original is here: https://soundcloud.com/user-96081182/doomscrolling-1 ]

Doomscrolling

Song a week 1 - Pirates

Surrender

Warming

White Lies

vocals by Erik Carlson
guitar by Shawn Thornhill 
written by Aaron Schmidt, Erik Carlson, and Sam Hilburn 
lyrics by Aaron Schmidt

recorded by Jessica Boudreaux and Cassie Bluhm at Lemon Slice 
mastered by Adam Gonzalves at Telegraph Mastering

produced by Butter (Aaron Schmidt, Thomas Shipley, and Jarrett Tracy)

DoublePlusGood X Butter - Best Of Us

DoublePlusGood is the long-running romantic pop project of Portlander Erik Carlson. Often known for his shimmering layers of production, Carlson has created a sound that beautifully combines melancholy crooner with dreampop textures. Backed by a four-peice band, audiences are transported to a 1960s era romance film where the protagonist can't get enough jukebox slow jams.

Since its birth over a decade ago, DoublePlusGood has released mutiple albums and EPs, been featured on several local compliation albums, and has been trusted support for acts like Ariel Pink, Wild Ones, and Typhoon. Carlson also single-handedly ran an independant record label, SoHiTek, that has been home to Hosannas, Fanno Creek, Pocketknife, and more.

DoublePlusGood X Butter - Best Of Us

DoublePlusGood

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