It’s been 10 years since I released Psych Out The Silence on a limited run of 250 purple LPs

After my Indie folk band, BabyTwin disbanded. I decided to make music inspired by 
The artists I’d always loved since I was a child. Mostly those of the 1960’s psychedelic pop era.
I’d recently opened my own exclusively vinyl record shop in Shrewsbury “Cave Records” 
And I was finally sober after a trip to Barcelona’s Primavera Festival. 

These songs whilst very personal emotionally were some of the most positive and sunshine-filled
I’d ever written or produced. I’d only recently acquired a drum kit some 18 months previously. 
And was still teaching myself how to play. I recorded all the music myself in my modest but functional 
Home studio. As this was my first release under my own name rather than a Band or pseudonym. 
I wanted to give as much of myself to the music as was possible.

However, after being solely involved in the whole process and after listening to the songs  Ad Infinitum…
I chickened out at the last hurdle and got someone else to mix it. 

He suggested we re-record my drums in a little studio. I was very nervous as he was firstly a very good drummer 
And I was also working to the clock. I didn’t play as well as I could’ve.  
He then made a modern and to my tastes a less organic drum sound.
I was listening to Oranges and Lemons by XTC a lot at the time 
and some of those tracks were used as a reference. 

This remix is by no means a way of undermining anyone.

However, It’s always troubled me...

Recently I found all my multitracks with all my original drum takes that were recorded in the same room as everything else was. 
So I’ve mixed it how I initially intended it to sound, which is a slightly more Lo-Fi/Garage organic mix. 

 A limited run of 100 cassettes on 4 different coloured tape shell variants is coming soon.

So here it is my first solo album, 
recorded and mixed entirely by myself in my very modest but functional home studio
which in its first 10 years has drawn comparisons to
The Beatles, The Beach Boys, XTC, Elliott Smith, Pavement, Ween, 
The Apples In Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control and The Lemon Twigs.

8. WADE THROUGH SILENCE

7. THE FEELING THAT I BELONG

6. MADE TO FOOL

5. THE GOLDEN SANDS

4. THE ONES WHO KNOW

3. FOOLS OF OLD

2. A PLACE WHERE I CAN'T STAY

1. SING TONIGHT

Very personal song. Written with 15 years of persepctive

Katy

Turns out I was wrong. Whilst It doesn't flow like the meme that’s been doing the rounds. It turns out it was all spoken by John’s Aunt Mimi herself. I’ve pieced it all together as written in the meme from a few episodes of the extensive 
“The Lost Lennon Tapes Radio Programme" 

In a way of cathartically admitting I and many others were wrong.
Perhaps I didn’t want to believe it. Even the abbreviation of B.S which seemed so erroneous for a lady of her age was spoken in the tape she sent to John.

The Aunty Mimi Meme

My first song since beginning meditation. 
Saraswati has guided me. Meditative track

All instruments played live by me :) No loops no samples no synths.

LYRICS

Spiral:

6th chakra told me 
that you were lost at sea
i spiralled to the centre
of my mind
to help to set you free.
Bright colours raced
towards me brought on
by the flame and an image
of a party where nobody
Seemed to know your name.
I kept the light inside me
and beamed it back to you
Like a heliograph on a mountain side
Or a beacon of love so true.
And rising through the spiral 
the eyes appeared again.
And suspended in a stringless
Sleepless hold i heard you
Count to ten. 
Your name appeared before me
Then golden threaded hair.
and the misty water blue eyes
they held me in a stare. 
My eyes they flicker blindly
I’m falling back to earth. 
And as my breath increases
I am brought in by the surf

Hold you aloft when rain is soft
holding you up to the flame
Rose coloured quartz
bring in the love
Holding you up to rain

There was a light i found within me
after falling back to earth.
an enlightened sense
of intrigue like a renewal
of my birth. 
And I tried to tell the story
to those you’re meant to trust
but the weaker minded
they derided my thoughts
into dust.
And over 10 years later
you came flowing in.
to show me 
i’d become as cynical
as the ones who’d 
filled me in.
So began my journey 
to get back to those eyes 
that had held me suspended
independent from the vastness
of the night.
So if you’re ever being pulled
by forces dark and strong 
Just find the light thats all around you
and woven through this song.
Cause without the love you showed me
and the mirror you held up.
I couldn’t of found my centre and
I woldve never rose back up.

Hold you aloft when rain is soft
holding you up to the flame
Rose coloured quartz
bring in the love
Holding you up to rain

Om mani padme hum

Spiral

Saviour Of The World

I've been listening to a lot of american Post Punk and Post hardcore like Hüsker Dü at the record shop. And playing guitar in open A tuning. This is the result, Melodic punk. 



(Written Performed and produced in it's entirety by Joseph Cave)

The Sword

First new one of the year. Working on the follow up to Psych out the silence. Which Im envisioning this time will be a celebration of my love of 90's alternative rock as apposed to 60's Pop and Psychedelia.

Joseph Cave

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