Obscure Sound - Best of December 2018

All music by The Faded North. 
Recorded at Stress Studios with Wolfgang Möstl, Graz.
Mixing, mastering & additional synths by Wolfgang Möstl.
Design by Adam Buckley & Hannah Rhodes.

Supported by SKE / austro mechana

© 2018 The Faded North

Security

Glencrest Lane

Music and lyrics by Beatrix Sky
Drums by Travis Lent
Bass by Alex Fulton
Produced by James Collette
Engineered & Mixed by Alex Fulton
Mastered by Julian Silva at On Air Mastering (Portland, OR)
Album art by Matias Morel
Special thanks to Thomas Lucy Audio

Love Drug

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/track/7C9b7wMiwxagBnXpLAFLmC?si=08zf-OgWRU6p8uytYjXydw
Lyrics:
Your voice is way too loud
There’s a crowd 
Coming down
You say you’re leaving town
Are you the same?
Am I to blame?

Those words are well known
Don’t quit and I won’t

I’m listening to the tone
Of your voice
Just make a choice
Whatever brings you joy
You gotta go
Oh no

Those words are well known
Don’t quit and I won’t
Those words are well known
Don’t quit and I won’t


I guess it could be worse
I guess it could be worse
I guess it could be worse

Those words are well known
Don’t quit and I won’t
Those words are well known
Don’t quit and I won’t

Don't Quit

"Ordinary Pleasure" is taken from Toro y Moi's album, 'Outer Peace,' out now on Carpark Records.

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LYRICS
It’s always the same as always
It’s a game that we play, no one’s safe

Maximize all the pleasure
Even with all this weather
Nothing can make it better
Maximize all the pleasure

Does sex even sell any more?
I feel like I’ve seen it all
Or maybe I’m just old
Or maybe I’m just bored

Maximize all the pleasure
Even with all this weather
Nothing can make it better
Maximize all the pleasure

Cuz this world makes a lot of noise for me 
Makes it hard for me to hear what I’m thinking 
Sometimes I don’t understand what I say 
So it’s fine if you gotta get away

Ordinary Pleasure

Written, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by John War

‘The Real Thing’ is the 1st single from my 1st mixtape, John Angeles. It’s an indie rock song inspired by surf pop, shoegaze, & 90s singer-songwriters, and I guess it's about keeping yourself honest.  It’s also John Angeles’ 1st track, and it feels amazing to finally share it.

LYRICS:

“I…”
IN YOUR EYE
I DON’T KNOW WHY THEY LEFT YOU ALL ALONE
YOU DON’T NEED TO TELL ME TWICE
IT’S ALRIGHT
IT SURE BEATS GETTING WASTED ALL ALONE

YOU STAYED THREE NIGHTS
CALLED ME ‘MINE’
BUT WHY’D THE FLIRTING DOCTOR IN MY DREAMS 
WANT A STONER PSEUDO-AESTHETE?
WELL, WE CAN TRY
‘TIL YOU FIND
THE ROLE I TOOK’S A FADED GHOST
I’M WRITING NOW TO LET YOU KNOW

IT’S FINE
YOU WERE RIGHT
I AIN’T WHO I’M SUPPOSED TO BE
NEW CAR SMELL’S WORN OUT
IT’S FINE
GO GET ON SOME OTHER GUY
I CAN’T BE THE MAN YOU NEED
I JUST DON’T KNOW HOW


TIME
DREW THE LINE
JUST INSUFFICIENT QUANTITIES
CITYSCAPES TOO WIDE
BUT STILL WE KEPT IT KIND
‘TIL ONE NIGHT
I DIDN’T MEAN TO LEAVE YOU ALL ALONE

BUT YOU WERE ON A RED TIDE
DRUNK AND HIGH
SO I LIED ABOUT MY OVERTIME
YOU TWEETED ‘BOUT MY PENIS SIZE
I HOPE YOU GLOAT
‘CAUSE YOU KNOW
THAT WHAT I GOT WAS COMING MINE
I’M WRITING NOW TO LET YOU KNOW

IT’S FINE
YOU WERE RIGHT
I AIN’T WHO I’M SUPPOSED TO BE
NEW CAR SMELL’S WORN OUT
IT’S FINE
GO GET ON SOME OTHER GUY
I CAN’T BE THE MAN YOU NEED
I JUST DON’T KNOW HOW

IT’S FINE
YOU WERE RIGHT
I DIDN’T FEEL THE REAL THING
LAST ONE DROWNED YOU OUT
IT’S FINE
GO GET ON SOME OTHER GUY
I CAN’T BE THE MAN YOU NEED
I JUST DON’T KNOW HOW

IT’S FINE
YOU WERE RIGHT
I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M SUPPOSED TO FEEL
MEMORIES CROWD YOU OUT
I APOLOGIZE
I WAS WRONG MYSELF THIS TIME
‘CAUSE I CAN’T BE THE MAN YOU NEED
I JUST DON’T KNOW HOW

The Real Thing - Single

The Real Thing

Most Nights

The 2nd self-released album from Seattle band Peyote Ugly.

Jackdaw

Say That You Want Me

At times light & shimmering then others dark and edgy, this Alt-Pop track has a bit of everything. .A non political song about the choice between apathy vs stepping up to the challenges we face.

Save The Day

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Written by Kent Odessa. Produced by Kent Odessa & Rob Arbelo. Additional production by Jonathan Schenke and Gabriel Rattiner. Mixed by Darwin Deez. Mastered by Jeremy Cox. Backing vocals by Raycee Jones. Wurlitzer by Brittany Anjou. Photo by Zachary Hilty.

Separate Lives

Revel

X-Man-Y

Written by: Claire Altendahl and India Shore 
Produced by: Claire Altendahl and India Shore 
Engineered by: Garret Edson, Claire Hewer, Aleksi Godard
Mixed by: Aleksi Godard 
Mastered by: Claire Altendahl 

Vocals: India Shore, Sylvie Chiang, Claire Altendahl 
Guitars: Claire Altendahl 
Bass: Emma Stacher 
Drums: Aleksi Godard
Organ/Keyboard: Wayne Wei

Harley

Won't you take a second look? 
Here alone I stand awaiting your final judgment. 
All the years, flights, promises, can't amount to nothing now. 

Won't you take a second look? 
I can't force the hand of love or claim it's spoils uncooked. 
But this is life, that was faith those were promises. 

I can't bear the thought of how 

You kept me so 
Peripheral 
Never let me in beyond the corner of your eye 
Peripheral 
Fearing inconvenience you've abandoned and resigned. 

Anchor-less but still so hooked 
To the dreams and fantasies that lay awaiting us. 
I was deaf, dumb, childish 
Far too late to play an adult. 

Anchor-less but still so hooked 
To a future disappearing in a haze of dust. 
I tried black magic, witchcraft, and conjuring. 
Not a single spell has stuck. 

And you kept me so 
Peripheral 
Never let me in beyond the corner of your eye 
Peripheral 
Fearing inconvenience you've abandoned and resigned. 

Kept me so 
Peripheral 
Never let me live beyond the corner of your eye 
Peripheral 
Fearing inconvenience you've abandoned and resigned.

Christian Carpenter - Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Synthesizers, Drum programming
Madeline Kennney - Vocals
Renata Zeiguer - Vocals
Danny Fisher-Lockhead - Alto Saxophone
Woody Goss - Piano, Wurlitzer
Julian Allen - Drums

Drums recorded by Tyler Duncan in Ann Arbor, MI

Written and Produced by Christian Carpenter
Mixed by Jake Aron
Mastered by Devin Kerr

Peripheral

Casual Encounters

Cogwheel

Whether its pizza, burgers or anything else you can pick up during a late night binge, chances are that Elliot has a song to sing about it. A self-professed lover of all things fast and edible, the Stockholm-based frontman has already made a powerful name for himself throughout the year, largely thanks to his wonderfully wistful singles ‘Am I In Love Or Just Hungry’ and ‘Trade Burgers 4 Love’, and now returns to unveil his long-awaited new album ‘Fast Food Musik’, due out on the 7th December via Icons Creating Evil Art.

Inspired by the LA art-pop scene, channelling artists such as Ariel Pink and John Maus, the frontman looks to create a warped and wild journey on his latest full-length. Filled with psychedelic synths and an abstract sense of humour, the new release sits as a satire towards modern society. The fast food representing the culture of instant gratification, where we are filled physically but not spiritually.

His nods to the 60s era throughout this new album act as a fawning to return to a more enlightened time, looking instead to fill our minds with a higher understanding of the world around us, all while remaining so affectionately in love with greasy and instant delights.

Explaining himself and his ideas behind this release, the frontman added, “Maybe it is hard to discern anything other than detached irony from many of the tracks on the album. But in retrospect, the ’fast food’ subject matter was a guarded metaphor for toxic aspects of my personality, my vices and generally my self-loathing. It’s tough to deal with these subjects upfront when your head is swarming with self- harming thoughts and anxieties, so it was a necessary storytelling device for me.

“That being said, making songs about burger grease is a great way of distancing oneself from the rest of the local scene, where life-altering subjects like depression and love are ’brought to you by Adidas’.

“Nowadays, it’s not an open-ended question anymore. I’m well fed, just a tad overweight, and in love. I listen to this song with the person I wrote it to, who I am now back together with. She plays many roles on this album to which I’m the antagonist - and is likely the reason why I wrote it in the first place.”

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Obscure Sound - Best of December 2018

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