Hanging Out

tiny pieces of the other

Stoned

low-Φ

For KenDoll

JAMES

Toro y Moi Blessa

Paws

Written partly on a concrete rooftop outside of Lima, Peru, and partly in the various bedrooms and basements of our friends across Wisconsin.

Jacquelyn Beaupre played everything.
Donivan Berube played everything else.
Ross Severson played some guitars.

Recorded, produced, mixed, and everything else by Patrick Boland, Marty Brueggemann, & Mark Zbikowski at Honeytone Music over the course of one icy spring weekend. They did the cover as well. Mastered by TW Walsh in New York City.

Released as part of the Honeytone Records 'Singles Series' on April 15th, 2014.

www.blessedfeathers.com
www.honeytonerecords.com

PS: We have a new album done.

Huaycan Song #2

I want to know what is going on
whether this is real or not
you know you have me hanging on
to every last word you say

and even though you say it’s alright
I still can’t read your mind
because you’re never really right on time
that’s why I like you.

Why does it seem so hard
to believe
That I’ll be whatever you want
me to be

I want to know what you’re going through
every time I look at you
you’ve got a habit of being true
so it doesn’t have to be this way

and even though you say that you’ll leave
you’re still pulling me on a string
because you never really know what you mean
that’s why i like you

Guts

The 3rd & deluxe edition vinyl repress of Ontario Gothic will be available August 27th, 2021. 

Pre-order a copy here: https://shop.orchidtapes.com/product/foxes-in-fiction-ontario-gothic-third-press

"Musicially, “Ontario Gothic” begins where the previous song on the album, “Shadow’s Song” lets off. The the same melody - made from cutting up & copying and pasting singular guitar notes forms the melodic basis for the majority former. The instrumental elements of the middle / transition section make up the Foxes in Fiction song “Breathing In” found on the first Angeltown compilation.

Lyrically, “Ontario Gothic” is written about a close friend name Cait who died in 2010 and to whom the album is dedicated. Cait was one of the closest friends that I had for many years when I was a bit younger. She and I became really close after I had moved back to my hometown in the suburbs of Toronto, away from a farm in rural Ontario that my family lived on from 2001 until 2004. I was coming away from what was the worst and most emotionally tumultuous period of my life at that point and I carried a lot of fucked up anxiety and deep sadness about my life and myself as a person. But more than anything else, getting to know, open up to and spend time with Cait during those first years helped open me up to kinds of happiness and a love for life that I didn’t think was within the realm of possibility at that point in my life. 

She was one of the most remarkable, open and truly good people I’ve ever known, really. The song “Flashing Lights Have Ended Now” was also written about her just a point where we’re drifting apart; a year later she was gone. I wrote this song to crystallize the better parts of our friendship and to remember the healing effect that she had on me as a person which without I would not be the same person or have the same acceptance for life that I do now. I miss her enormously and I feel her influence and presence constantly. "

I was trapped under concrete
Built from the memory
Of all the daydreams
That I buried underneath

Now find me a way to divide
All of the noise on the other side
We’ll change where we live in the fall
Soon it will feel like nothing is wrong

And I could see who I should be
Though a past that casts it’s shadow down over me
In empty fields on summer nights
I feel the flashing lights

Teeth clenched in moonlight
A limitation, want to ignite
Reset my biology
The imitation, the apology

And I felt just like a child
I’m taking it all from the other side
Driving with you in your car
The home that I know seems so far

Spring, fall, I’ve lost it all (the morning fog)
Your empty street where we would meet
These parking lots bless us with peace
Your light has strayed, there’s no release

Ontario Gothic

Foxes in Fiction - Ontario Gothic

Chaz Bundick & Co Drop in for a Session with Daytrotter on Sep 14th, 2010.

Lovely stuff indeed...x

Toro Y Moi - "Low Shoulder" Daytrotter Session

I don’t want to get older
even though you asked me to
how am I to get over someone
just like you
put your head on my shoulders
give me a sign just to tell
I can be there for someone
other than myself

I don’t want to go back to you

let me tell you my problems
even though you don’t want me to
all I need is a reason for
everything I do
How can I be so helpless
after everything that we’ve done
I just want to feel like somehow
I’ve won

Shoulders

I never knew what to say before it was too late
I hate myself for acting that way around you
I’m facing my consequence for losing my confidence

No i’m not that miserable yet
even if it seems my head is down
but there’s no one else that I really want
so Heaven and Hell can’t stop me now
  
Sometimes I talk way too much before I even start thinking
what am I doing with my self
i don’t mind if I die
as long as there’s someone who’s willing to hold on

I try so hard just to act so tough
even then is just not enough
But there’s no one else I really want
Heaven and Hell can’t stop me now

I don’t want to say goodbye
even if you don’t see me all the time
I don’t want to be your problem
I just want to be your man.
I’ve got nothing left to hide
even if I don’t say it all the time
I don’t want to be your problem
I just want to be your man.

I've been working with protools and I'm not very good with it yet, but I was able to make this.

Pockets

download: https://lightning-bug.bandcamp.com/album/floaters

Bobby

Lullaby no. 2

Garden Path Song

back in taipei!

people say that i need
someone to hold me down at the knees
Every time I have something to say
there seems to be a problem
I have no money to save
but I have you in my bed
talking about all the things we think we have
even though it’s nothing

something tells me to worry
for thinking love is boring
i’ve been this way since you’ve told me
that i’m the man who loves you


Money

i finally got a setup to be able to record some guitar properly so expect to hear some of this more often.

sesh

A scratch track from last year, and a redo of one of the older songs on here. I started school so I don't have that much time to write music anymore, but I'm trying. 

Problems

Emerald

I don't care what others say I'll do it how I want
If you've got a problem. I don't give a fuck. 
Tell me something easy. You know I'm not too smart
You think I'm just kidding. But I need repetition.

your talk is resting inside my head
i'm feeling like it's meant to be
but your chest is aching with every step
so i'll finish what i started

what am i providing that makes you feel secure
although my love's divided i want you to be sure
I don't care for other things i want you in my home
i just can't imagine being all alone

tell me if you just can't stand
and i'll be waiting by the phone again
because love hits like an avalanche
so i'll finish what i started 


Avalanche

Morning Brigade

for nicholas ng. www.fiveng.bandcamp.com


STAR SLINGER - FIVENG - JONAH (STAR SLINGER REMIX)

over 80 tracks incl. edits, remixes & originals… downloadable for free at: starslinger.net/downloads

free download

Alpine - Icypoles (Star Slinger Dreamix)

An earlier freestyle from a younger G. Atom. Recorded in the Bee Gees' former studio in Miami, FL.  Mixdown by the best in the business the one and only Hal.  Thanks to Steve and Scott Bernstein for making this happen.

Pan Am Prod. Thes One (Bernstein Bigup Edit)

Leeway single released Feb 25th 2013 on Because / MI7 Records.

Produced by Ash Workman
Mixed by Ash Workman & Ruadhri Cushnan

All infos, dates, releases, videos here: http://www.wewereevergreen.com



Leeway

We Are Trees  - Sunrise Sunset

We Are Trees - Girlfriend

Just your friendly neighborhood emo song-writer.

Problems

james nee