Laura Shortt

Be Enough

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Modafinil Blues finds Matthew Dear four years removed from his last LP and lost in the low-hanging gloam of Topanga Canyon. The producer and pop auteur wrote it there in the evening hours with Troy Nōka, a longtime Frank Ocean collaborator. The song hints at conceptual roadblocks requiring more than a simple or single solution; the manifestation of a meteoric spike in cognitive function, yearning for some form of collective freedom, followed by the inevitable descent into the complexity of the fix. Dear’s baritone verse acknowledges that this existential arc is flawed, and therein lies the blues. Moody and nuanced, slightly undone and hugging the curves of the canyon; a polyrhythmic glissade through cerebral fog.

Modafinil Blues

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Oh honey, we were just having fun
like two skin-covered cities fighting for sun

kiss before you go
it's the blaring red of brakelights
fading ever fast
as we shift back into drive

oh honey, we were just having fun
like two skin-covered cities
fighting for sun
oh honey, like something I read in a book
somewhere there's maps of the way it all looked
from a bird's eye view

the weight is gone and everybody's holding
onto nothing, onto nothing
the weight is gone and everybody's holding
onto nothing, onto nothing

oh honey, like something I read in a book
somewhere there's maps of the way it all looked
from a bird's eye view


Written, Arranged, Produced, and Recorded by Sur Back
Mixed and Mastered by Patrick Brown at Different Fur Studios

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This is my outlet for the tidbits of sound/song I create and record.  All instrumentation, vocals and editing by me.  Special thanks to those who may enjoy some of these ideas.

Be Enough

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