You may need to turn it up, sorry about that.  I gave up trying to make it louder, wishing it was as easy as raising the fader.  
I got the idea for the lyrics back in December and it took several months to get them to an acceptable place.  While recording this, I was learning how to use Cakewalk by Bandlab, so there were lots of 'I'll do this better next time' moments along the way.  
It might sound strange, but this isn't even really my kind of music, I just had an idea of what it should sound like and tried my best to get it there with my limited playing, singing and technical abilities.
I hope you enjoy it.

Around

Simple, one take loop from about a year and a half ago that came out sounding okay. I even tried playing drums for a minute

2-26-2021 to 3-6-2021

Shimmer

B DRONE

Rhythm loop with two lead guitars

It's like a conversation with two people talking over each other.  Neither is listening to the other, but they both think it's going well.

Nonsense

My attempt at a shoegaze type song. I felt it needed vocals, but I'm not a vocalist, so I did my best and tried to hide behind the reverb. The lyrics describe the feelings someone might have while coming out of a depression.
Drawing back the shades,
Morning brings a new refrain,
Sunlight streams through the mundane gray shadows,
Fade into open space.
Feeling more than alive,
Is this a dream or is it the first time my hopes have ever been so high,
Staring out into an endless sky.
Time's slipping away,
Slightly lost, but not afraid,
Far beyond the outer gates with eyes wide open the whole way.


Reawakening

This one is a few years old and a little bit more like a song than the others.  It's just drums, bass and guitars.

untitled instrumental

Relapse (instrumental)

This is a pretty old one.  I found this on a cd marked 2004, but I think it was recorded around 1997.  Back in those days, I recorded on a Tascam 424 cassette and this is probably one of my better sounding recordings.  If I remember right, I was disappointed with the normal version, so I just cranked up the reverb, delay and flange and had some fun re-mixing it. 

Down (dub mix)

Drum and guitar loop with a long, aimless guitar solo and a bass guitar added afterward.

Matt R