Painted Red w/ Ken Cavanaugh

WRITTEN BY KEN CAVANAUGH

VOCALS, GUITAR, BASS, SYNTHESIZERS: KEN CAVANAUGH
DRUMS: KRIS SMITH

PRODUCED, ENGINEERED, MIXED, AND MASTERED BY KRIS SMITH.
BRIDGEWAY RECORDING (FORT COLLINS, CO)

Daybreak

Escape

Maybe it's music for 20-or30-something sensitive rejects; survivors, but with semi-wakeful, glassy eyes and brains gone soft from daydreaming and years of unabated millennial nostalgia. A sort of general, one-size-fits-all soundtrack for online encyclopedias and other similarly voluminous bodies of non-fiction, but also and more earnestly for celebrated non-canons, works of alternate history, and amateur prose.

Maybe it's motivation to replace a poor work ethic with a slightly less poor one, but then with the tendency to make situationally appropriate facial expressions at situationally inappropriate times, intentional or no. Or it's respite from the seemingly inescapable dualities of the aforementioned work ethic.

It's not a sedative for the tough-acting, inwardly shy closet loner types. It's not recommended for shrewd savants, prospective prodigies, or tenured troubadours. It's no substitute for a hell-bent military march to accent the ten-cent words of a would-be dictator in his final recitation of an obsolete manifesto. Nor is it the anthem for the ensuing coup d'etat.

It's music that doesn't know what the fuck it is, for people who don't know who the fuck they are.

These recordings were manufactured on equipment that processes products containing peanuts. They may contain non-sequiturs and/or dead tropes, including but not limited to: palindromes, cryptograms, limericks, red herrings, unironic Mary Sues, improper haikus, unironic Mary Sues, improper fractions, absurdism, proper nouns, imaginary numbers, antimatter, Surgeon General's warnings, Oxford commas, and micro-transactions. For topical use only.

Ken Cavanaugh is a songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. His style is derived from experimental and DIY influences from Tim and Jeff Buckley, Martin Newell, Michael Yonkers and Negativland to Pink Floyd, Elliott Smith, King Crimson, Trent Reznor and Joe Meek.

Daybreak

Ken Cavanaugh

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