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A Beacon School - Middle of Winter

Before We Go

I made this track back in 2023 and just found it when scrolling my library. I just had to post it because I really like it and well, maybe you'll like it too. Feels pretty epic. Fun fact: The original track title was "War of Minds", but that sounds a bit too dramatic now. But 2023 me liked that title.

Eclipse

A jazzy groove with strings, synth,  sax, for my friend Gregg. A Love Supreme

For Gregg

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LUPO

That's the day I've been waiting for
Driving slow around with you
From the hill where the sun is lying 
Yellow strips of gold are straining here right into my eyes

And I'm glad you chose to spend today with me
Glad to see the sun burning
Silent you and silent me, waiting
For the sun to drown into the sea.

By my side now the river slides,
Looking for a sea to feed.
And I watch the wind
That blows invisible
Dancing with the wind
I think you know well the way I feel.

And I'm glad you chose to spend today with me
Glad to see the sun burning
Silent you and silent me, waiting
For the sun to drown into the sea.

It's change
It's nothing at all
It's changed
Nothing at all.

Lupo

Initial tracking by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Recording Studio. 
Overdubs by Steph and Maggie at Trash Treasury. 
Mixed by The Helio Sequence. 
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering. 

Photo by Megan Leisy. Design and layout by Genders.

Maggie Morris- guitar/vocals/omnichord/synth
Stephen Leisy-guitar/synth
Katherine Paul-drums/vocals
Matt Hall-bass

Life Is But A Dream

It’s funny how all the demos we’ve accumulated can change over time ... Sometimes the early versions & rough mixes that stick out the most now didn’t when we were making them, as is the case with ‘Habits’. 

We originally bounced this mix when we were still working on overdubs, but then we lost the project file after Chris spilled a bunch of coffee on his laptop.  We rediscovered this version while sifting through demos one night at our house a couple months later.

If we could reopen that file, I’m sure we’d find some shitty preset sounds, a guitar amp simulator on the vocal track, and tons of crude, approximate EQ and compression.   If we still had the Logic file, we'd probably want to change and rerecord a bunch of stuff.  In a way we’re thankful that this particular track is frozen in time, because if we had a chance to dive back into it, I’m not sure we’d be able to get into the right headspace to improve on it.  

After the coffee spill we started backing up all our files to de cloud, and we'll probably continue to exhaustively revise our current projects, but just this once it’s kinda nice to release something we never got the chance to split hairs over. 

“Habits" is the first song we’ve released where Chris (keyboard + guitar) sings lead vocals.  It's the first song off Loosies, a collection of demo versions & B-sides from the sessions for the Baby Blue Suede EP that came out last year.  Loosies is out 2/16, along with a deluxe cassette from Invertebrate Music.

Loosies

habits

Coal Harbour (Brand New Life)

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