Good Indie I Found 4

Taken from 'King's Gambit,' a new 11-track album by Narcissists.
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LYRICS:
The trail ends here in Rome,
And all the years,
Could have never prepared me for;
Your eyes that night,
And I don't know why you think,   
that you still know me,
Maybe it's who you are,
I will come undone again.

Anna Maria it's cold,
All on your own,
Sold his soul for a little fame, 
And I don't have the answers,
To why you're sick of life,
Don't ask me,

Anna Maria it's old,
To play these games with me,
Bold things come out my mouth,
And I don't feel a thing,
If your God could see you now,
Don't ask me,

for love,
I wanna see ya,
I could never invoke,
The rage that comes when you have to fold,
I don't know why you think,
That you still know me,
Maybe it's who you are,
I will fall in love again. 

Anna Maria it's cold,
All on your own,
Sold his soul for a little fame, 
And I don't have the answers,
To why you're sick of life,
Don't ask me,

Anna Maria it's old,
To play these games with me,
Bold things come out my mouth,
And I don't feel a thing,
if your God could see you now,      
Don't ask me.

× × × × × × × × ×

Narcissists is a independent electronic music project from Preston, Lancashire. Established in 2022, and releasing their debut album Opening Move the same year.

Opening Move, combines retro influences with an energetic, modern rock sound, not disimilar from Harry Styles or The Strokes. 

Opening Move saw some exposure upon release on Wythenshawe FM Radio, The Amos Madra Show and Amazing Radio Afternoons.

In November 2022, performing live atop an art gallery in Manchester, Narcissists made their live debut at the ABC Building, playing on the roof of the gallery in the glass amphitheatre as part of an event organised by House of Art and Heads Magazine.

Narcissists were also interviewed and featured in an article published by Blossom Magazine, an organisation also based in Manchester.

In December 2022, Narcissists performed at The Ferret, a legendary live music venue in Preston, Lancashire. Supporting popular rock band Sugarstone in a bid to save struggling venues affected by the pandemic.

In 2023, Narcissists released King's Gambit, their second studio album. The album featured a post-modern, electronically woven sound. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of electronic styles.

Dark Skies was used as the official soundtrack to popular Internet soap opera "Skew Bridge," crafted by the team from award winning playwriter Jim Cartwright.

Anna Maria

Pennies is a single released by singer/songwriter, ALEX KAUTZ.

Pennies

"Heartbreak Masterpiece" is the seventh single from the debut album, "Alex in Wonderland" by ALEX KAUTZ

Heartbreak Masterpiece

"OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" is the final single from the debut album, "Alex in Wonderland" by ALEX KAUTZ.

OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

So give me your hand dammit
Why are you so insecure
All of this self-created confusion is making you sore

You're always running aren't you
It's funny one day you'll laugh at it too
About all your dozens
Of made-up problems
It's all in your head

So won't you follow me
And just give me your hand

So give me your hand dammit
Why am I the one that's insecure
And underneath it all
It's just a mask
To hide it all away now
Oh to hide it all now I can't find you anymore......

Made up

Composed by 𝙉𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙄𝙎𝙎𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙎.
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They tried one time to hold it down,
You're never gonna get very far.
I hold my breath until the end,
You go back to who you are.

You'll never know if you don't try,
You've never lived 'till you've died.
I missed my train.
You'll never know if you don't try,
You've never lived 'till you've died.
I missed that train.

And all the people saw the light leave your eyes,
And then the ruler beckoned to the skies.

They tried one time to hold it down,
You're never gonna get very far.
I hold my breath until the end,
You go back to who you are.

They tried one time to hold it down,
You're never gonna get very far.
I hold my breath until the end,
You go back to who you are.

You'll never know if you don't try,
You've never lived 'till you've died.
I missed my train.
You'll never know if you don't try,
You've never lived 'till you've died.
I missed that train.

× × × × × × × × ×

Narcissists is a independent electronic music project from Preston, Lancashire. Established in 2022, and releasing their debut album Opening Move the same year.

Opening Move, combines retro influences with an energetic, modern rock sound, not disimilar from Harry Styles or The Strokes. 

Opening Move saw some exposure upon release on Wythenshawe FM Radio, The Amos Madra Show and Amazing Radio Afternoons.

In November 2022, performing live atop an art gallery in Manchester, Narcissists made their live debut at the ABC Building, playing on the roof of the gallery in the glass amphitheatre as part of an event organised by House of Art and Heads Magazine.

Narcissists were also interviewed and featured in an article published by Blossom Magazine, an organisation also based in Manchester.

In December 2022, Narcissists performed at The Ferret, a legendary live music venue in Preston, Lancashire. Supporting popular rock band Sugarstone in a bid to save struggling venues affected by the pandemic.

In 2023, Narcissists released King's Gambit, their second studio album. The album featured a post-modern, electronically woven sound. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of electronic styles.

Dark Skies was used as the official soundtrack to popular Internet soap opera "Skew Bridge," crafted by the team from award winning playwriter Jim Cartwright.

Try Again

Taken from the 11-track album "King's Gambit" by Narcissists.
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LYRICS:
All of the things that,
I couldn't say,
When you cut me out of the photograph,
I never thought that you would laugh last.

Among other things,
I wanted to help,
But know that I don't care now,
You'll never be the man you think you are,

I've got a feeling in my bones,
You're over there and heaven knows,
That you're watching me,
'Cos I can't sleep maron.

Taking your time,
To enjoy what you say,
When you tell me I'm not there yet,
You'll never be the man you think you are.

I've got a feeling in my bones,
You're over there and heaven knows,
That you're watching me,
'Cos I can't sleep maron.

[SOLO]

I've got a feeling in my bones,
You're over there and heaven knows,
That you're watching me,
'Cos I can't sleep maron.

× × × × × × × × ×

Narcissists is a independent electronic music project from Preston, Lancashire. Established in 2022, and releasing their debut album Opening Move the same year.

Opening Move, combines retro influences with an energetic, modern rock sound, not disimilar from Harry Styles or The Strokes. 

Opening Move saw some exposure upon release on Wythenshawe FM Radio, The Amos Madra Show and Amazing Radio Afternoons.

In November 2022, performing live atop an art gallery in Manchester, Narcissists made their live debut at the ABC Building, playing on the roof of the gallery in the glass amphitheatre as part of an event organised by House of Art and Heads Magazine.

Narcissists were also interviewed and featured in an article published by Blossom Magazine, an organisation also based in Manchester.

In December 2022, Narcissists performed at The Ferret, a legendary live music venue in Preston, Lancashire. Supporting popular rock band Sugarstone in a bid to save struggling venues affected by the pandemic.

In 2023, Narcissists released King's Gambit, their second studio album. The album featured a post-modern, electronically woven sound. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of electronic styles.

Dark Skies was used as the official soundtrack to popular Internet soap opera "Skew Bridge," crafted by the team from award winning playwriter Jim Cartwright.

Thousand Cuts

Stop and Go

SUPERBAD

Ready For The Country

The third rather experimental vocal track.  A lot of compressing sections to go faster and match instrumentals.

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Lyrics:


And if it isn't too much trouble
I would like to know just what you were angling for
For the time... grows...short
To search for redress, tidy the mess

Riddle me this

As we sit here treading water
Why is it that you keep dodging the issue
Are the terms... too... steep
To broker a deal
What is it you feel

I didn't want, to be cruel
But there comes a time
Begging validation
Plays me for the fool

SexDeka

Why Are You Malfunctioning / Whimsy Number 2 (Lyrical)

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I just am really fond of this song, on an album that got no thanks at the time and didn't do well.  And I found it really weird that there are no other cover versions in 43 years or so.

It's in the 14 day holding period with Distro-Kid to formally become a cover song with a real license, while it's like that I have it on SoundCloud but non monetized so it earns zero until then.

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OctoDeka

Can't Turn My Heart Away

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Can't Turn My Heart Away (Art Garfunkel Cover)

I liked the technical challenge of this song.  A lot of moving vocal segments around and the first time that I sang harmonies against myself.

Looking at it a day later: it's like theres an extra measure in the verses where Bill shortened once he got to the 2nd-and-later, and I didn't because I cut and pasted, so it explains why I have to idle extra time each verse to deal with that.

But it does inadvertently fill the requirement that "cover songs should have their own weird signature that doesn't match the original too closely"

I very consciously did -not- read the spoilers for who Laura was really about before cutting the cover.  One fun way to interpret who Laura is, if you didn't know it's Joel's mother, is not an ex-wife or an ex-gf, like some are saying, but let's say a niece or a biological daughter that he never sees until Laura is an adult, but what hurts is they're cut from the same cloth, they're -so- similar but Laura's karma is different and gets her in trouble and he always has to financially bail her out etc.  Be a fixer.
She's genius-level but does substances way harder than him and routinely almost gets killed.  Loose cannon.  The 'umbilical cord' in this sense is then the aid he has to give, she -never- shows signs of growing up or out of this phase.

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Laura

Laura (Billy Joel Cover)

2024 needs some kind of answer to Sting's "Russians" from forty years earlier.  I gave it a decent try.
First thought is "why did you not put an instrumental intro"
But if you hear this thing about 3x then it grows on you

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Lyrics:

Give me an abstraction
And I will show you that it's a mistake
A mirage in the desert, a trick of the mind that we make.
Possession being nine-tenths of the law
was bound to stick in someone's craw

The terms do well as a matter of course
Until they hit a counter-force
Legalisms tend to pall
When speciousness smacks into a wall

When the tables turn,
And the balance shifts,
The rules that once seemed solid,
Begin to drift.

The unruly state of nature
In which nations chart their course
Born of cold calculation
Without compassion or remorse

So we must be wary,
And we must be wise,
For what we think we safely hold,
Can quickly turn to lies.

298 : Geopolitical Quicksand released May 29, 2024

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NovemDeka

Geopolitical Quicksand

Bear in mind that this is fictional as well as firmly autobiographical all at the same time.  Because that's the way with human experience - we make up a story that we tell ourselves until we believe it.

There was some inadvertent manipulation by the educational system which was real, but I was also guilty as hell of being stubborn about individuality and also a pretty hardcore video game addict right back to the Atari 2600 and this extended into online addiction in the 90's before they had a name for it even.

So people that I may have felt were less than helpful, also rolled out the red carpet for me more than once -- just on terms I refused to swallow.

So mainly this is an anti-bureaucratic piece.  The footsoldiers in the faculties doing the teaching, and my fellow classmates both have my sincere sympathies.  A distinction has to be drawn between making music just to get the ick out of my system and what I truly think upon more sober reflection.

Also: well aware this kind of whines like "Allentown" re: 'vote with your feet dummy'

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Lyrics:

When the H.R. folks say that i irrationally resent
But then the merit raise was two percent
Then let's review the course of the gradual descent
That got all of us where we are now

At the start they said well then, we'll skip you one grade
But hem you in by constraints that we already made
You'd be better adjusted if you only had stayed
Where conformity's all we allow


As I traversed past grade school to the stuff above
The real shock came when, push came to shove
There came things I didn't particularly love
Like rejection from the occasional cow

I escaped from that scene seeking resolution
But the worst place to do it was an institution 
Playing redistributive games
I pushed my way through it
Though my hope was diminished
If no other result, well I proved I could finish
But they were bitter returns all the same

Getting out in the world from the ivory tower
I found that things out there were not much less sour
The retail grind at five eighty five an hour
Doesn't cause you to climb to much fame

I needed the time, to heal, to mend
But the length that it took seemed to really depend
On chewing through this or that online crutch
And that seemed to drag on for far too much

Advancement comes slow when your job doesn't match
The inclinations which are your true path
When suppression has become the order of the day
A lot of time gets burned away

And then came a shift in the mood of the nation
Making it tougher to alter your station
Where even if striven with all your might
They'd just have said, can't promote the budget's too tight
If you were lucky they'd come at you with euphemisms
If not they'd tell you the stark reality 
That you just don't fit intersectionality

I only seemed lazy because in this domain
The only way to stay remotely sane
Was to ignore that they ignored me
While dreaming of where I really should be
Pointing out that my worth's in arrears
Perennially falls on deaf ears

If they get an abrupt shock one morning
Well, they've only had forty-five years of warning
Playing games with people's lives 
Is bound to end in a nasty surprise


I only seemed lazy because I missed the basic rule
Not to wait for someone else's say 
And so I no longer play the fool
As I breach the walls of the cage
And take control of my own way

And so folks then herein lies the rub
Just like don't wait for a corpo to cook your grub
Don't wait for prefab lesson plans
Take destiny back into your hands

301 : I Only Seemed Lazy Because released June 11, 2024

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I Only Seemed Lazy Because

You know this experience.
She's got a face that's a '4' and perfect athletic muscle tone that's a '10' everywhere else.
And unbidden you have a revolutionary uprising in your system.

6-22-2024 10:30am : the mastered file has been altered to have the awkward 2 second gap after "modus vivendi" removed.

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Lyrics:

She's got a great face for philosophy
Though occasionally we disagree
About the nature of reality
That's well and good, but as far as I can see
Right now she's barking up the wrong tree


You can't make guacamole without an alligator pear
There was an offputting vibe in her blank stare
That would be sniffed out most anywhere
So it's a good thing we were still in her lair


I'd bet an eleven pound slab of deli ham
That before we started this conceptual jam
She'd engaged in a futile attempt to cram
For her turgid instructor's last exam


What's coalescing into certainty
Is that for a very, very modest fee
She'd hired an expert, and that was namely me
To solve her conundrum logically

Suddenly her speech took off like a rocket
As if fire had lit her nature's pocket
The time had come for me 
to ferret out 
what her idea was of modus vivendi

She thought she'd picked the ideal man
Without my stunning dungeon tan
But like Riker's leg, he'd jumped the couch
And anyway had proved an unworkable grouch
So she'd seen that it was high time for her to flee

The confidence of a yogurt male
Apparently had seriously begun to pale
In relation to my questionable rummage sale
Of attributes which in sordid detail
She then harshly listed out for me

I listened with almost perfect pretendance
In the center of her floordrobe's gritty resplendence
To her very clearly imperfect remembrance
Of my shining virtuosity

First came Parmenides with his hatred of beans
She explained while tugging manically on her tattered jeans
But when the ancients went to tell us what that really means
It fell to Zeno to breach the veil with paradoxical schemes

She said I had a knack for unlocking the past 
And proceeded to say a thing that left me aghast
My performance, she said, could consistently outclass
Yogurt guy's dismal grasp of themes

Reaching to the era of scholasticism
She said Albertus Magnus fueled her cynicism
And she'd ditched her robust specimen of hirsutism
When he'd proved to be not worthy of esteem

aliquod ex nihilo
inpensam quod punctilio
quamvus genus arietibus
da pauper puella, alea dis

(something out of nothing
I'm counting on that point
although she kind of rants
Give the poor girl a chance)

In a sudden gush of of words she turned hysterical
And with what seemed to me to be a miracle
Rattled on about how this led into empirical
Conclusions that David Hume had cast abeam

She's got a great face for philosophy
But the rest of her form, believe you me
Would grace the annals of human physiognomy
And that just might be enough, we'll just have to see

305 : She's Got A Great Face For Philosophy released June 22, 2024

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She's Got A Great Face For Philosophy

1995

Website

The timing fix for Back To The Edge (Track LXXIX) which didn't need much.

79A : Back To The Edge (Alpha Remaster) released November 18, 2024

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ErbEšrā

Back To The Edge (Alpha Remaster)

The waves

Kodaline - All I Want (Cover Album Sophie 2021) (Preview)

A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

Good Indie I Found 4

Doug Stoothoff